The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-02-12
TIE FORREsTER's GRAVE.

My heart is sour, Fred, and / am
angry with myself that it is So"
lhe state OF the heart, they say, is
often beyond the dominion of the will.
Heinrich" replied his friend.
AYE, aye" retorted Heinrich, "but a
man may relinquish his rational mastery
in this affair; he may pamper himself
wlt,l dreams OF coming happiness, while
each day warns him Of the peril of the
proceeding; he may cast a kind of stron-
2 uum Sunshine round his life, aud willfuIlv
shut, ms eyes to the fact that is mere
stronttum. l have done so; and now
sulat the glare is gone find myself, as it
were, upon the stage of n theatre as the
Gay dawnS, inspecting by the grey tw-
lght Lhe pictures which enchanted me
'ist h'Eht, and finding them all daub and
defonuity."
t a room in the Watergasse, Carburp.
sat two students who carried ON tho s,ro'
gong dialogue. 1t was winter, but ,h,,
~sttaakrsllqrn of -Ane room was raendercd
genial 10y the radiation from bladk stove
which reared itself in one corner to a
height Of six or seven feet Both stu
dents were smoking, and upon the pipe of
each--a pipe, by the way, the supplying
of which in England would lie heavier
upon a man than the window tax-was a
portFtit Of the other.
"pnly think of my attempting to make
p0etrs, Fred r pursued Heinrich.
'"The thing would seem ridiculous, per-
haps, were it not so very common" an
swesed Fred. "But people in your state
haye.i kind of music awoke within them
which rejects the common law of utter
anee- The lover has as good right to
sings the lark-high feelings demand
high expression" ....--..
~ bis music Of life would be very de-
ii9htslJ," returned Heinrich, did it not re-
eq.nre two TO produce it, the will or caprice
cot her being able TO convert it for the
other into most dreary wall Six
mont Is ago had other melodies to cheer
me- ] had my work first of all, and, re-
uYine from this with the consciousness
that 1 had done it, | was receptive Of
Haag delightful influences. Sun, moon,
and stars were sources Of pleasure to me-
GAiono in the forest did not feel lonely ::
the nec leaves spoke and sung to me.
ielt q d: common life penetrated me and
natnr,, and 1 rejoiccd in the relationship.
5Sutg have forsaken these pleasures to
pnra,Ie an ignus fatuus; | have aban-
done the chaDgeless and true, and based
any happiness upon mass OF tinted Va
porA hch Is now melted and goIc.
have been fool, but q certain profit may
be y rived even from my folly--the expe-
% fSh la lail tn nI 4
10 some account"
Ibs last sentence was uttered by Helm
rich NTH bitter energy, as if the indivi-
dEal had become dual, and one half was
actia,s the part Of an exhasperated school
s!ss:s=s... towards the other, Heinrich No.
tly--Le of the sun and the stars and the
fpFess and the work, hourished his merci-
-ipss Thongs-oyer Heiprich No. 2,-him of
the poetry, ballroom, and bright eyes.
The lady--for lady was the origin Of
II aIl--who caused Heinrich so much tro,-
bic, was rot one calculated to subdue q
msE nc glance. Her beauty was not of
that triumphant cast which suddenly ias-
e;natls the behohler. When Heinrich
frst saw herr she appeared to him TO be a
gentle, tiInid bcing-a weak snowdrop,
which shook its pale petals in the slightest
bre@c. He saw her again, and imagined
tliA the timidity had subsided little
There was, indeed, an honesty and ear.
aestness about Heinrich himself which was
,alcula,ed to effect this. He sooh discov-
red, however, that behind the physical
Iinblity reposed a courage which uobcdy
would have calculated on, and Of which
,ae1pssessor seemed perfectly unconsci-
Z IS. Heinrich was somewhat Of psyche
,zi,,, and this discovery interested him.
Ie tatched her--her actions were the ma
raj outflow Of her spirits, untincturcd by
ie slightest afFsctation. Heinrich had a
tnotiok that he could distinguish mere AMI
NAL beauty from that which, permcating
1.-The ctuntenance from within fuses the iea-
lures into thought and music; and he OBJ
brved 10 .timaS a. depth Of radiance in
sse'eys Nhieh led him TO speculate on
q purity and lfehineSs Of the soul from
aiah tIst fadlsucS emansted. She was
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