New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-17
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H. This is a,subject that has been treated by all who
have ever welded the grey-goose quill. Then why
nayI not relate to you a&conyelsatlon, with very
handsome. cousin of mine ofthe genus maScutnum.
Bengyas I said before,quite handsome, he is natur
ally, q great aYorite with the s1fter seX-and has
learned to discourse very eloquently, upon Love
mighty and all powerful Love. 1t is subject of
which he never tires, and really do believe he has
memolized all the poetical rawlings and rantings that
have ever been indted upon it. I fear shall not
do him justice in the rehearsal
Nov, Cressie, can never convert you to my be-
lief in the master passion. know that poets have
raved and sages sang its praises that old maidsand
misaIhropes have sadly abused it, but you, certainly
will agree with me, that lifes trimming cup, without
thatsgloWing spice, would be vastly insipid, Love
has wrought. some of the worlds greatest revolu
tons~-has nerved man to great deeds, and fitted
womanfor stern luties viewed in all its phasest is
the most glorious boon granted by kind Heaven$to
man. 1t expels the grossness of our mature and
gilds and retnes the native ore. Petrarch asserts,
that it is the browning grace ofhumanty-the hottest
right Of the soul-the golden link which binds us to
truth and duty. Coriege describes Love as the alb
sorption of SELF in idea dearer than self-and is it
not so? do not find in the idol Of our til oughts
something more dear than self-where we love truly,
will we not freely sacrifice? --.
Look at mothers love-whats so pure, so constant?
Nothing daunts, nothing chills it-nothng can wean
it from her child Neglect, ngratitude, or, gnomny
cannot tear it from her heart. A sisters love, kind
and gentle, ever cleaning round our pahand more
than ALL wfe's love. What will it not enable her
to do? She never forsakes, though distress, penury
and i'll fame cluster round Her soft voice and charm
ing smile are ever ready to tighten the dear ones
path ocr the drear morass of life-wling alike in
10y or sorrow to share his fate.
Wonians love, Cressie, is more pure and disinter
ested than mans She will more freely resign all for
the loved one For him she will give up the friends
of youth, parents, childhoods home with all its
,haunts ofpleasure and bidding>adieu to ALL go out
into the wide world, clingng to him as the dropping
vine to the forest tree, and trusting with chd-like
faith in his truth and worth. ~ss r.
Life without. love would indeed hea weary desert,
without one oasis to cheer the wayworn traveller
and we would eagerly hasten on to the grave and
seek that rest and relief denied us, but which we now
find in our hearts chosenfor in the hour Of trouble
the thought Of the dear still left lis, quickly
brings consolation to our hearts, and in sickness
turn to the hand that prompted by affection laves
our pallid brow and holds the cooling draught to our
| parchcd lips.
+ And Love works miracles, Cresse DEAR forit opens
1.-the nisels heart s0otes the msanthrope, softens the
hardened 1ufian Gains the turbulent, cheers the de-
spondent and gives peace to the tenpest-tossed 1t
is mans guide star while treadng the intricate path
OF life The home spell forged by Love will still lin
ger round him, wander where he may: the thought
Of home, that kingdom of the heart, bears him up
amid the trials that awaitvtlle footsteps Of all OF
Adams fallen race. ~-s
Why will you be so fatnous, Cresse? there must
be truth in Love- cousin mine. or how account for the
strange freaks we sometimes see? A mild, gentle
woman following with loving glances and winning
words some great brutal fellow who can no more ap-
preciae the prize he has drawn in life than the toad
can the bunch Of yolets thatgsheters him. Again we
of intellect and talent, who have made
their mark upon the roll Of fame united soft lack
a-daisical women who have nought to attract save
beauty and Incidence. We are most apt TO love our
/ opposites-the weak attracts the rowerful-beauty
and gentleness are loadstones to talent and mind, and
fear that will sometimes find virtue and worth
| united to vice and depravity. s..
Love is sometimes counterfeited by his twin brother
Passion but how can we detect the cheat? fol
Love is incorruptble, and will purify all with which
it is brought into contact, and it is ever sclfsacri
icing while Passion gras1s with greedy hand an(
ever cries, more.
Now Cressie, do not laugh, this is not nonsense
but trutf-pure and refulgent +; for Love, to life, il
the q fringe Of gold to the dusky clouds " ii is no
evanescent though it may Turk latent in the human
heart; it but bdcs its time to assert its power, an(
even You, my sauey coz, may yet tremble.
After suchan eyegesis of the mighty passion, wlla
, could ] say to my handsome cousin, Hal? Comfy
at least would compel me 10 own myself a convert
Ny conversion mcy lead to wedding; if 50, you ma
rest assured you shall have g bid; !" until which
time shrine you in my heart and wish yoursladoy
may never be less. CKHscESTA.