Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-06-21
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II see The future stretch
an dark aud barren as a rainy sea. p o.
Here is srrin. Of pears:--
"Thr lark is singing in The binding SKY,
Hedges are phhc Nth Nay. The BRIDEGROOM sea,
Is toping riM he shore, his welded bride
And in the lulnrss u his marriage JOY,
He dccoruirs her tdrny bro,r trM SheHS
hefircs Il SPACE 10 see hor fair she looks,
Then proud runs mp 10 klSs her All IS ialr-
All clad from grass sun! Yet more 'oSe
Than This The Shrinking day, that sometimes comes
In Winters front, 50 fair 'nloEg lis dark peers,
IL seems a slraggler from the files ol June,
Which in its wanderngs had lost It's WIS.,
And half lis beauty; and, when II returned,
Finding its old companions gone away,
IL IDnrd Nuvcmbers troop, then marching Pus'i
AMI So The tail thing comes, and greets the wohi
With thin crazy smile, then bursts IN tears
All the while Il holds within its hand
4 few hal-wherrd flowers PIP. III, ~.
Rstinn sovs that Goethe always great upon The stars
M Homer is upon the sea- Alexander Smith seems love
both with Unsuitable passion ana perfectly marvellous il
i 10 see how necessarily they furnish nm win Images al
ways new always varied Compare the pa ssage quoted
about The bridegroom sea, win 'hls =
''Bctter for man.
Were he and Nature more familiar trends
His part il worst that touches ms base world
Although The oceans Utmost heart be pure
YET The salt fringe that daily ticks NE shore
Is gross win SAM p o.
Or this:
Mankind will crowd around you, thick as when
The fulaccd moon sits silver nn the sea,
The eager lit up their cleaning heads,
Each sluulderng for her snlie"-p !.
Equally fresh and manifold are the images with which he
invests those primeval themes sunset and moonlight. By
the way commend this cXuusiless novelty on old
.cls To the consideration of all who have little faith the
latent Of the human mind, and who suspect that
i has done s best and greatest in literature and art Here
are passages IN which The symbolic descriptions are Of
startling arlness and beauty
zone dreary morn
Your Book came TO me, and ionded H.
As though il were pigeon sent from thee
With love beneath lis wing. read and read
Until the lifted his cloudy lids
Ind shot mild light along the leapng deep,
Then CLOSED his eyes in death. shed no tear;
Ibid il down in silence, and went forth
Buricncd with lis sad thoughts slowly went
And as wandered through the deepening guoni
saw the pale and pcniIenal moon
Rise from dark waves that pluck at her. and go
Sorrowfui up the sky."-p l9b.
ii walked with him upon windy night
We saw tho streaming moon flee through the sky
Pursued by all the dark and hungry clouds."-p. los.
"Our troubled age shalt pass, doth day
That leaves the west all crimson with the promise
Ul the divncr morrow, which even then
Is hurryng up The rror!ds gren: side nth Lgh"p. los
The moon hides with cloak of tender light
A scarr'd heart led upon by hungry fres."-p. 49,
The imagery sometimes brief and pregnant In expires
sion, when he says
,and laughter iiuttered thro' their after talk
As darts bright bird in and out the leaves.
Or in the Shakspcarian wealth of imprisoned thought
here
al am drunk with Joy
HGncctnrth my path slopes downward 10 The grave.
In Currer Bells novel "Shirley" there is beautiful pas.
sage describing April day, when 'sunbeam kissed the
hill tops making them smile in clear green light or when
shower wcpt them, hiding their with the low.
giug dsryclcd rsscs of cloud IT is probable thai
Alexander Smith may have seen Tins passage and that it
was ,nurnurng ndslncily in his when he the
following plagiarism is the last charge be preferred
against one So upnlent
WALTER.
"Poor child poor child
We sat in dreadful silence with ain,
Looking each other wildly IN The eyes:
alcthought heard the gales of heaven close
She hung herself against me, hurst in tears
As bursts in spray. She covered me
Win her Wild SORROW az an april cloud
wan dim diSlereLcd treSSeS hides the hill
On ,ehct lis heart is breaking She cung TO me
With pcous arms and shook me with her sobs
For SHE had LOST her world, her heaven, her God,
4 nd now had nought but ME and her great wrong.
She did not kill me with single word,
nuI once she lifted her tear.daJbLed face-
Had hell gaped AT my feet would have leapt
Into is burning throat, from that pale look
Sl II pursnes like Il haunting fend:
Ii drives ou 10 the black mooTs al night
Where am snlllcn bY the missing ram,
Aud rnilu win H. Li,ioigius from their troops.
Hustle shrlcklng. Then with sudden turn
tio laughing Ia their fellows Merciiu God
Ii c1nra-thu. face again. that rtte, lctifc face,
Set IN nght Of hair; reproachtnl eyes
That make me mad Oh save me from those eyes!
They will torment in The grave,
4 nd burn Ola ne In lopiet
Where are you going?
My hearts On fire, by he'll, and on idrire
TO outer hiacEness Ike Il blazing ship.
lie PUSHES d,oayl
70 youth must be put down certain carelessness OF
stl IT, aud occasionally al grammar. surprising in one so
kecny alive I" The eciies OF expressions there are Scot
cisns and commonpaces good reader OF The proofs
should have passed. and umaZed TO lind him on the
first page using this thrcadoagc Image:
LAS Moses serpent The Egyptians swallowed
One passion eats the rest"
Nevertheless the extracts have given made
that in
sua degree The vision and the faculty divine which, when
mOvcd BY The momentum of richer experience, will create
great poems. As Johnson was wont 10 say "Sir, man
only coin gninras in proportion 10 his gold the finest
faculty will be- little more than alene unless be employed
on the right ina cria Ii Phdias image oul Of
cay il will perish like riay the finest marble be under
The scupro4 hands all mis- genius will be wasted That
Alexander Smith creative faculty. doubt:
il remains fur III" future show whether that faculty will
BE- exercised ce clay on rare and priceless
marble.
NAVAL BATTLE FOUGHT AT BUENOS AYRES
Additional intelligence from Burnos Ayres informs Us that
naval battle fought between The squadrons of UrquiIa
aud The Buenus Ayreans, The 1911 Oi Apr In which the
former captured TWO Of the five six vessels belonging 10
the latter. All board taken prisoners, with The
cepton of the admiral Of The act who escaped in small
b 'at. a current That The besieged Buenos
AYrcans had accepted the mediation OF the Brazilian and
Bolivian ministers but before these uncIionares would be
nhe 10 move in the matter ii was probable the OK Dictator
would only regain possession OF the city, but decaptac
nnloy of his principal opponents. lie dispatches bust
in summary equally much did
unfortunate people removed iron heel from their
shoulders, add placed another on their heads
Special Correspondence OF the N. American u. s Gaz
NAsHISGToS June Is.
II is ruulncd :ha john r. Thompson, Senator from New
Jersey VIII he offered the China mission. Mr. Thompson
Tor many yeats merchant and Consul imports
Chinese pot aud is spoken o better qualified for the
mission than any heretofore named This mission al pres
rnt regarded by III. ad,instra ton of The highest com.
mercia and political Importance General Pierce is under.
stood to sympaze with the c5es and will serny rebuke
intervention by naval forces sustain the Tartar
dynasty.
An order issnc, Ivy the Postmaster General designed TO
late POasIes against Irresponsible agents who pro.
10 obtain balances due them, by charging exorbant
ices had created much excitement among that class OF per-
The agitaed in England force Spain to cman
clpate III. slaves in Cuba and Introduce coolies form the
lending topics in conversation in high quarters and the
opincu il expressed that il consImacd shall witness
The orglnizntl"n Of hbusleng expedition in the South
and Vest against Cuba scale Government
control
AMERICAN HOTEL ON FIRE-HEAD QUARTERS
or THE MECHANICAL
New Y RK juSE l6.-Thc upper story of The American
Hotel o Barclay and Broadway streets wns
discovered Ia be fire This evening The American is the
h,n, nt he