New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-24

verse, and catch the whispered voices his Tyre
! repeats He must sttune ear and heart to the
| Isinstrelsy Of earth and air, and with ardent
devotion, worship in the 'temple made without
hands"-responding to the cathedral music sur
ging and echoing throughout its recesses. All
this, and more, he will dare and do, or like
Bellerophon hswill fall from Pegasus in his
skyward career or will emulate the fate Of
Phaethon, who foolishly dared to rein the suns
fiery steeds Greatconceptions do not Minerva
| like, spring panoplisd and complete from the
fscund brain. But behind and above all this
discipline of the bard, then is the spiritual cs-
sence Of poesy, the psychicsf afatus Of conscious
| energy and lifs-or all the triumphs Of training
are but the sway Of another Ung Log.
Il is as evident that there ia the same interior
fact and growth of friendship. The sequence
before suggested is then but an association or
intimate relation, not a logical result. No
hazard, no prestige. no art, no. toll makes
| friends. Genuine good will grows by daily ex-
ercise, and increases upon itself; its in1pite
variety is eharmingly revealed by the shifting
lights and shades of experience, and st asds forth
the more bold and clearly defined beneath the
| test Of time. His corroding tooth leaves no
mark upon its smooth and rounded proportions;
its fine temper resists the keen edge of his fatal
scytho ~ es-......
! Is there not transparent truth as we'll as
poetic beauty in the heaven-derived origin of
these charities By worldly reckoning, how
should they ever arise By them We are raised
out of ourselves-through them, we can trace
! higher than human beneicence, lavshing upon
us more than our desert of esteem, and en-
powering US at the same time, to surpass the
constraint of mere selishness-nay, to become
heroic in friends behalf.
! Should these lines meet your eye, Corydon,
! they will attest what well know needs no as
surance, or have long been cherishing be-
guiling falsehood, andnot living truth in my
bosom. -Goldsmith's maxim will apply equally
well to friendship: s'The virtue that needs .
constant guard is hardly worth the sentinel
In many times and ways you have been my good
genius, always with ready zeal extending the
hand of cheer, and speaking the word of kind
ness; always clearly foreseeing and actively
| favoring, you have beckoned me onward when
weary, and pointed me upward when distrust-
full Not Yet, Corydon, is our hand in hand
intimacy outlved; not ever, or "my prophetic
soul" reads falsely the dim scroll of futurity,
shall its brightness wane.
Revealed beside thas classic bay, where our
boat often leapsd lightly the laughing waves; /;
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4 Iwel, know that brave actions better heseeu
! and nrnve real REGARD than as tho beout;as q
lspeech but when has the record OF ,ur child
hood ever transgressed reality As retrospec
and future, as history and hope, bles
your generous friendship
have grown personal. love personalities
You, ma mignanne,. are So shining mark,
whereat as | aim my pen, enthusiasm thrill
through my thoughts. Your eye and cheek kin
die my musings, ana tell me nave justly COPIED
your MOOD or truly touched the ehords Oh youI
nature All matters OIL vital Importance are
! individual matters. The great heart OF the
nation is grand hgure OF speeeh the great
one beating IN a true bosom is much more IN
1 tellgible reality. The =" ship OF state is the
| o,nosrr. Of n not;on,s eves and tbn worthy
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lcentre of devoted patriotic regard. We all
ID A. lo.u4 l1o,. ,x,a IA - n al ,,ool p,,,
HoiA the iieais p'eo9 anu Va" Az "o SPe9'' ~
| dare say for you and me, besides our dear
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pAdhhs, anu ohleluou W i'o e"eieo ""hhei' ""e
are more in our eyes and minds-and it may be
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rlgntly so-tnan the Mhole masuihceht 'ehture
For talking of shins if never so we'll built
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anu appointed, What are they WITHOUT men
,yhoea hrao sts are brava whose heads are clear
and whose arms are ready and STRONG How
wonld your vessel sail witl,out tbem--wba,
oourso would II bo,a-wbat mort would IL make
what ooro o,or;ops destinv wuld Won o,nac
e,r -, aoot;,, ooroor tbor tbot Il should :. r,
srrr h.lf froyer ON tho patooon;an cliffs q,
.drno,;shod into sh;v.rs bv your ;cohoro, conn
sOlora ond CONT sbosr dawn to Davv Jones ~
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