Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-15

translated by Cowley:
almighty pain to love tits,
And It's pain that pain to miss;
But, of all pains, the greatest pain
1t is to love, and love in vain"
But this only expresses the feeling when cloud
of doubt hangs over the lover. When this is re-
moved and he feels conscious off, or hopes for reci
procity, the whole world seems bright and g'ori-
ous, ard he walks forth--a king among men. The
magic lamp of Alladin could build up magnifi-
cent palace in asngle night; so the power of love
can transform the realities of this world into
splendid vision, where everything is gorgeous and
beautiful rs dream of heaven. This feeling has
been beautifully expressed by Coerige in his YER
ses to Genevieye:
"All fears, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame
All are but ministers of love:
And feed his sacred fame" =.
| Although the whole world appears radiant, it is
because the lover sees nothing. The image Of the
beloved one is the focus of every thought, and the
beauty playing in her eye and the music flowing
ringing in his co. and thrilling his soul with ueff
able joy. There is nothing selfish in the genuine
loyer-he lives only 10 make the one he loves hap
py. If there is cloud on her brow, it gathers
too on hs-if her roseate cheeks ore paled by dis
ease, his too catches a sympathetic pallor-if she
is smiling and happy, his heart is ms bright as the
radiant sky Of heaven. -..g -
80 happy love where love like this is fonud
heartfelt raptures! bliss beyond compare
I've paced much this weary mortal round,
And sage experience bids me this declare
If heaven draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
| One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'Tis when n youthful, loving, modest pair,
| In others arms breath out the tender tale
Beneath the milkwhite thorn that scents the
evening gale"
But, as we have said, there is another species of
affection which skulks under the name Of love-
As it savors rather of worldly prudence or selfish
ness than genuine affection, We term it-practi-
cal love. Sometimes it is so covertly concealed
that it can scarcely be distinguished from the pure
elevated feelings Of the heart. But when put
to the test. the mask is quickly removed and the
selfshness and worldly emotions which had usur-
ped the sacred name of love, stand ont in repul-
sivc attitude Let one whose affectionis permeat-
cd by this selfish element, be required to make
few sacrifces-let her be compelled to choose be.
tween poverty with love, and wealth without it
let her be importuned by friends to forget the one
she has vowed to love forever--let her be tempted
to this course by the alluring promises of wealth,
or let malice and SANDER be called in to traduce
his once fair name and alienatc her affections
and if her love falters and fails it is but base
counterfeit affection, and if it must be called love-
let it be termed practical lore. Let it not skulk
under n word 80 sacred to the human soul-which
has so often made glad the city Of the hcart-wth-
out qualifying epithct, expressive of its mongrel
character. We know that those who profess such
affection attempt to justify their course by spec-
ally canting about tempting Proridence-as if Pro-
whence would not rather shower is blessings up
on the generous and open-hearted than the cold
booded and hypocritcal. Have they forgotten
the curse that fell upon Ananias and Sapphira,
when they were afraid to tempt Providence? Thus
these hypocrites in love are struck with moral
blindness, and vainly imagine that by conceaing
their genuine feelings and protesting an attach
ment they do not feel, they are acquiring the
favor or over-reaching the wisdom of Providence.
But it is seldom that we find the young advd-
eating practical love- until they have been school
ed by others in the ways Of selfshness, and had
the clear bright fountains of the heart polluted
by the unfeeling philosophy Of Age. The time is
past when mankind seemed to acquiesce in the
belief, that there was no such thing as affection
or choice in selecting partner for life; and that
parents or friends were the proper persons to Sc
lect husbands and wives. The custom originated
in barbarous age and under an oppressive feudal
system, when families were divided into petty
clans, and sought by strong and wealthy alliances
to increase their power and influence. 1t makes
the generous blood boil with indignation, to read
of the tyranny in the baronial halls of old; when
some fairy maiden afhanced against her will to
british dosard or wealthy BOBBY, and languished
IN uureSS DeCuuse Sne udreu 10 lofe oHe uou ndu
made worthy of her affection and esteem. Think
of it the rosy cheek Of youth pressed by the
icy lip of age-the warm and ardent heart chilled
by contact with cold and pulseless bosom-silk-
en- ringlets mingling with hoary locks-in word,
youth, beauty, sentiment, innocence and ardour,
joined to age, deformity, sel6shness debauchery
and heartlessness Does not Nature revolt from
such spectacle? And when we are told that
this unnatural state is brought about for the sake
of wealth-for "siner an landn'-which can only
be enjoyed for the brief and transient space Of
fifty or sixty years, do; we notpity the short
sightedness of the policy, which wonid mar oil
true felicity, to acquire which, while possess
sed, is but an empty psssaut, and which must bsl
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