New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-01

pot .rrsyed like one Of these TIE people in the pews
al whose faces have vanished now hers, many
wears my elder yet still rsdivt with youth queeny Ia
beauty ard in bearing, who came when all were seated
following the old grandfather with powdered hair ana
cane and Who during the service
while ], eight years child felt vague saoner oe
shadow the sweet .iay and quite forgot the sr'o
This was the music of the convent oel o. va i,,h
In that calm SyTsn afternoon Memory III fund
went cleaning the silent fields OF chiiihoi' an
the scattered aran still golden the morning
tresh and fair. 80 o. tho town
Troops Of air.s passed as we came 70 tle
TT r,o md hands we're touched with koh' thrS WI"
-. a. 80 ,r COINS for necklacc.. and their heais
were eirt with brilliant hanckerchcis; 10y u ~
veil thsir faces and at times from out nc tu-o"s So
eves rose bewilderingy upon our gaze. 80" M! %
80, 4; tho Nazareth Girls whose ignt would nave unii
y.cd an artists fame forever. could he have aXed
within the pictured face oil his MadohIa GRO an
TIC traditions which cluster around Nszareta are 80
sd, ord domestic that you VIII willingly believe or
least you will listen 20 the improbable scIi OF lhe n
are a. a fsiirr 10 ths enthusiastic % n
child With Jerusalem end IFS vclnhy, the grHNy Vi
the doctrine is too intimately essOciacd to aDow tne
mind to heed quaTTcs and theories about the oci
ties. 1t Is tie grandeur OF the thought I" hioh ooli'"
But in Nazareth il is tho personally of the Teacher
which interests you. Al the tende rncss OF the story
oen;ers here Tie youth o. the Madonna aud the unro-
corded ears OF the child belonging Nazareth There
fore rs.inuOn unbends 10 sweet associations Oh
domcs,ic lie The little picture in the llhzi recars
again and TIE delicate sketches OF OveroecS dstiat-
fathers chop he bit OF wood into tLe firm OF
cross looking up siney to the Thoughtful Joseph ana
the yCaTung Mary when me bringe her the passion
flower j. The pleasant ROOM.
The trauoul Afternoon streams up The valley and
your heart is soencd Il By that tender smile OF Mary
an Welding Ia the soliciting hiaTs You go quietly and
see where Josephs house stood, and where the Angel
Gabriel faluted Mary, and the chimney Of the hearth
upon which she warmed food for her young child and
baked cakes for Joseph when he came BONE from WORK.
and the rock whence the Jews wished TO cast Jesus and
ob ho az Will h,a
You listen quietly 70 these stories, and look at the sights.
Tie childish effort TO give plausible form to the necessary
Of the history OF the place Is too natural to onend
When TIE pIetcnse too transparent you sine but 90
not scod For whether he lived upon this side OF the
way OF upon that this is the landscape he for thirty
wears A quiet workman, doubtless with bic fathcr,
siroling anopg the melancholy hills OF Gaee looking
down into the lakelike yastness Of Esdraeon where
the great Captains Of his nation had foughheang the
wild winds blow from the sea-wachng the stars, and
remembering tic three days OF his Childhood whcn nc
sat in the temple at jerusalem 800
Walking in the dying day the solitary hills,
you VIII sec in the sunset but figure moving along
Tic horizola grave, manly form, outlined upon inc
| Wet
Here WIS the true struggle Of l- lif-he resolve TO
devote hmstf TO The work. Thee are the exceeding
ligh ncuLtena upon Which he "as MED IN temptation
here in the iuEss OF hi- youth aud hope Satan walked
with him seductive Fer every sin smiles IN the hrst
address say jeremy II yior ard carries light in the
face and honey in the lip Green and iowery as Es-
drail,n by the valleys of ease and reputehon at s
feet tut ,tcrniy prccfitous, the hights OF Gailee,
the cifs Of Duty above him buried their heads in
| hesycD.
But We must not lineer on these fascinating
pases. We take leave Of them with the passage
(which the Howadji bids such an expressive fare
well to the romance of Eastern travel.
FAREWELL TO THE EAST.
In golden sunset, the tent was pitched
fer the Gst Time upon high mountain point, overlook
| Inc iLo sea AZ We watched the Gardening Mediter.
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| yOrd ici the sweet music OF the evening bell.
1t was the kncl OF tie East Sweet and clear II rang
far down the dark caln OF the valley and out upon the
cvoripg The glory Of oriental travel was a tale
! told The charm OF nomadic lie over. Like
youth, that travel ard charm come but once and be.
cause the IL the picturesque phase Of travel
possible us the in rising over our last camp,
aud wing drcsmy the placid slopes OF the Leb
anon but the image Of memory, which sleeps the
East forever in pensiye twilight 50 finally lie in toe
mind al lands have The highest value OF
revc Is not the accumulation Of fscts but the percep
ton their signihcance. II Is not the individual pic
uIes ard statues ia Italy, nor the elegance of
pers the comfort of England, the splendor of
the Orient in detail, which permanently valuable
1t the breadth they give to experience the more rea
sonthe faith they inspire in the scope OF human genius
the dreamy distances of thought with which they sur
round HE In the landscape which we enjoy as a va
lied whole hat do for the branching tree or
The winding river although know that without tree
and river here would be no andscepei When Italy
and SYRIA ard Greece have become thoughts in your
! mind, ihCn you have truly Travelled.
The morning under the mulberres ana over the
stones descended TO Bcyrou aud startling TO
feel how suddenly the spcl broken. a few tat
Franks. and few sailors, and few bales of cotton
ard much seaport stencil, and the mongre population
| CT n LcvGniine city, dissolve the dream. Strange
ia BoyIout Is Tie image Of the East iu its still pic
turesqueness in its placid repose. few turbans and
snowy beards glide spec,raly among the hogsheads
and boxes like the fair forms Of dreams lingering upon
the awak ming eye, among the familiar furniture OF the
| chamber
Yet Beyrout is built upon long and lovely slope of
the Lebanon and has fine gardens and trelsed ba conie
overlapping its most summer sea. There, on some en-
chsned morning you may inhale the fragrant Shirsx
taste the last shebet OF roses, aud be lost In
| the syrcn's song.
hui some May evening, you reccde that
itself in purple darkness; and lspsng deeper into
oIy behold the dreamy eyes OF khadra, and the wild
owed JOY of the Earth" and the Delight of the I'm.
rainscr and the Pearl of the East" until Might and
tie poft lave gently withdrawn Syria from your view
Co you SIGH hnt The East tie Ion dream but
| a m,Mory do YOU feel that the rarest romance Of
travel IL truly ended, DO you grieve that wealth
oi experience equals the dover OF hope say in your
heart
What's ID done, joys soul lies ia the doinglr
Or a. fnow-pesk OF Lebanon glances through the
moonlight ike star do you fear est the poet sang more
truly than he knew, and in another sense
| The youth who father from the Eas
Must travel, still Is Natures priest,
| And by the vision splendid
| IL on lls attended,
Until the man peIceiyts il die