The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-12
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tains a paragraph which encourages me to write
you communication of a peculiar character
Battle says he has been in the habit Of using the
quotation.
Like angel visits, few, and far between,
without knowing its author, and renamed il
ignorance till fair daughter of Shreveport en-
/ lghtened him-which, however, she was no
able to do until she referred to her library!-
! This all strikes me with peculiar force-tht
more torciJly, since Battle has the name of be
ing, and doubtless is, a man of letters-really
so, and not one of whom it may be said >
I'm volumes deep he sits; in wisdom shallow!''s
But this freak in Battles literary character
and the disability Of that .bevy OF pretty girls
to enlighten him on the spur of the moment
encourages me, an ignorant, rustic plebeian, t
write you this singular communication.
| Allow me, then, without farther ceremony
to call the attention of my friend Battle, ano
that of as many of his ssfemale acquaintances'
as have pencils, cards and Libraries, to the fol
lowing fugitive quotations, which | have some
time 'seen or heard tell of, butwhose authors
cannot now locate. And the first item con
corning which ask light, is the following
from some writer" ancient or modern, divine
or heather, l don't know which: s
"And God said, Let there be light, and there was
light!'
This is very expressive, and strikes the read
err with some degree of awe; but who 'sperpe-
trated' it, God only knows-unless Battle does,
or some of his "female'' book worms ofShreve-
port! Again: r-5 ..as z*ao+z. -
"And seeing the multitudes, he went upon into a
mountain s5
A very familiar expression, and very sub
lime; its authenticity is all that bothers me!
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy
YOUTH
This is good advice; but when one is both
cred about the authorship, it is apt to destroy
the force of the command therefore pray for
more light, and appeal to Battle and his 'sbevyr'
Again: ..s....-=. ...z..-.. .......... ..-,--.
'And he showed me pure river of water of life,
clear crystal proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb
How sublimely beautiful! How it makes the
soul of man yearn to soar away and be at rest,
far away beyond the shores of this rough hewn
world, filled with tadpole- pools, messy ponds,
and bed-bug taverns But then. who the deuce
wrote such pretty expression? Without know
ing its author, of course the beauty cannot be
appreciated! -
And the following snatches from the poets l
have read somewhere, or "dreamed them in
Dream" and would not ''begrudge; a pretty
to know the truth of the matter. If Battle and
his flock of nymphs cannot enlighted me, who
,an? l submit:
AT summer eve when Heavens arial bow
Spans with bright arch the glitterng hills below"
1,,or +lr
With mag ic tints to harmonic the scene''
In joyous youth, what soul hath never known
bought. feeling taste, harmonious to its own"
Sweet Memory, waited by thy gentle gale,
)ft up the stream of Time turn my SAIL
What wonder, therefore, since the endearfng ties
If passion link the universal kind
If man so close, dc.
And the following-dou from Milton or
Iudibras: (!!!)
l sing of Natures charms, and touch we'll pleased
. stricter note
-'tpeevish want
rims at his heels, while down the gazing throng
lie stalks
"Hence the feverd heart
ants with dklirious hope for tinsel charms"
flor with her alone,
y streams and shades, to steal these signing hours,
all he asks"
-''count each crystal drop
hlch Mornings airy fingers in the blooms
f May distil.''
nperior to disease, to grief, and time"
AS write, thousand disconnected frag-
ents come to memory, but l am totally una
e to "locate' them. Doubtless Mr. Battle,
aided and abetted' by his chevy of pretty
rls,' would be able to do so at once; but the {
lowing few items are all the additional ones c
'th which l will "bother' them at present:
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
1t from its loss
he waters slept. Nights silvery veil hung low -
/ Jordan's BOSOM Il
-"softly DER the sea of Galilee Ii
'nced the breeze-ridden ripples to the shore"
lie gave to them the child, and bow'd his head 81
BON his breast with agony" ii
lis hand the good man fastens on the Skies D
id bids earth roll nor heeds her idle whirl' n
lgmes are pigmies still, though perch on Alps" h.
md man the hermit sghd till woman smiled" =,
he silken chains that binds two willing hearts" n,
hou canst not say, did it: never shake
y CORY locks at me-" -
Of course Milton wrote the following: W
iend tempt me not with beauty; thou are fairer h,
an was the serpent, and as false; /,
d Byron these Two lines: ~
OF mans first disobedence, and the fruit "a
IF that forbidden tree DC. -
m not certain about this, however, and am ~,
ling to leave it all to Battle and the girls of ~
reveport- provided Ashton don't help! a, a!
am very certain, however, that Tom Moore to
he author of the following line: III
Full many gem, of purest ray serene CO
however mistaken may be in other things to
m very sure French poet of the fourteenth he
fury was the author of the song commencing VIC
How firm foundation, pa
" saints of the Lorde'' III
think Tasso is the author of the storv We
ch begins somehow thus: 50
An old found rude boy up one of his trees, ret
ling applesp' ine
l am mistaken in any particular let Bat M
or the young ladies who relieved him, re- en-
e us-but Ashton is not to assist ora
Your "mystifed" friend, PENTECOsT p,
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fn1TARY CoLoN1sATIoN.-The British gov oel
nent proposes to extend its domain in south Pc
Africa by establishing there a military CO. 'o'
composed the German legion raised du 49,.
the war with Russia The Kaf1irs have pei