Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-02
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Mr.. EDIToR-Yeu will otiige q constant reader
if you will make room in your columns for the ae-
companying poem from the pen Of gifted lady of
Raleigh, N orth Carolina.
1t will have an increased interest for of your
readers, when 1t Is mentioned that the lady who
wrote il has been a vsito. in our beautiful village,
and is an ardent adnrer OF the varied and picturesque
scenery of our valley with its glorious background of
towering hills, differing in the variety of its features.
as 1t essentially does from thai portion OF her native
State in which she resides.
Some OF the best journals of the South seek for
the productions of her pen. and, when found, give
them 10 the world with high encomium; an endorse
men, we may add, truly valuable, but scarcely nee
ded 10 ensure for them currency and credit.
Unsolicited praise, from the land Of the stranger,
and called forth by other " magic than that of
song, furnishes, perhaps, reliable test of poetic
merit as any that can be cited. The voice of true
melody calls forth the response and however distant
the point from which the notes may come, they are
answered with truthfulness certain and unerring
as that of the natural echo. The temptations, trials
and struggles incident TO common natures, with
the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears of life, form
the links of that electric chain along which true poet
Iy finds its way to our hearts.
If this power over our sympathes is not genius 1t
10 something better-a trust more sacred. Ii such
response is not fame, it is something near akin:
1t is stated that collection of the Poems oil North
Carolina is to be published under the able SUI
pervision of this gifted lady.
The advent of every new star in the armament OF
literature has always been marked with deep interest
discriminating compiler who ministers to our tastes
and dscoses galaxy of choice poets. deserves
at our hands no tame commentator.
In themes of Inspiration and of song North Caro-
lima has furnished great fund of material and so
much of excellent poetry, We do not wonder that her
gifted daughter, in the spirit of patriotism, has
taken into her flia keeping the Harp of her native
State,
That Wondering long has hung"
Ideserves now, at the hands of her who can grace
fully tTine it, the appropriate wreath of amaranh
For The poetry OF her native State she will accom-
plish but in enduring form, what the Rev.
DR.. Hawks, and the Hon. William A. Graham, in
their able lectures the past winter in the City Of
New York, have been doing for Its revol uonary his
tory. Ii is the Rev. Gentleman faceously terms
that State the RIP Van Wrinkle of our confederacy,
but, he adds to her credit, that though seemingly
asleep, her noble impulses never dormant. 10
the truth of this he calls up proof, the Mecklen-
burgh declaration of Independence of May l775-
than year prior TO our National declaration !;
the founding of the first University the integrity of
her public faith when reputation stained more than
escutcheon and other matters of record as cred
table to the fixed morality of her citizens as they are
classic in character.