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

left behind at last I? Poor self.deEuding sophists
Preparing to live forever on earth, when you must
soon 60 hence to another scene, where weaIthcan-
not purchase repose and the lip cannot cheat with
smile, And think you therei is no moral turpitude
in acting le-a lifelong falsehood? Can there7
be more approbrious sin than Practical Love |?
Is it not really more contemplate than flching
purse, to pretend what We do not feel-to profess
be the wife of the bosom, when the hearts wsrn
blood flows to another-to steal as friend into
the secret penetraa Of the soul Of one we despise
TO tutor the face to smile on one in, every way
repulsive Let us then call things strictly by
their right name and ask what is. practical ioYei
1t is practical lying, practical deception praetcal
adultery, practical covctousncss practicaIroguery,
practical folly,-in word-it isa practical per.
version of the laws of Nature and the richest :
blessings Of heaven! Start not at. the Catalogue!
tyros logic could easily substantiate every item
without the aid Of special pleader. Ii Is in this
way we are often cheated by specious phrases
Many fair lady, no doubt, has thought herself
very wise and prudent and entirely gultless in
indulgng in practical love. Ard many asage old
aunt, uncle and papa, have imagined themselves
great philosophers rs they schooled the young
heart in the first lessons of deception and hypoeri
cy. We are aware that such matches are sone-
times apparently happy-that a few cold natures
have lived together peaceabIy without ioye-have
plodded on through life without noble thought
or generous aspiration-as Byron says Of two OF
the characters of Don juan ssss sss
wishing each other not divorced but dead,
They Hred respeetabyas as man and wife ;,!sge
But who would not rather choose an exalted
love, pure dsinterestcd devotion than the sordid
attractions and deceptive allurements Of Mammoni
Has earth joy that shadows forth the perennial
gladness of Paradise +?
There's bliss beyond all that the nj astrei has
told, e.. --'-->E's 80
When love unites two in one heavenly tie; b 8
Who with heart never changing, and brow never
cold, sEsst *; =; q - &
Love on through al ills and love on till they die
One hour of a passionso sacred is worth
Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss,
And 0! if there be an Elysium on earth, q.
1t is this-it is this" )" = go 2
Who would ask more than the realization of this
picture Of Tom Moore's? betsus then cherish as
priceless gem early love, for q lifetime search
cannot find its peer. - ~ S.
20 let US prize the first blown bud Of love;
Let US love now in this our fairest youth, E9ssss
When love can find full and fond return = ss =
The accumulation of wealth may begaile the
tedium of age--the pursuits of ambitiontnay gre
wings to the fecting hours--thc ncqnirementof
knowledge and the Investigations Of science may
occupy the mind for season, but all in gain viii
they attempt to usurp the thronesof love. With.
out the pure affection of q noble soulcd woman,
and consequently without domestic bliss aud the
joys Of homes; what is life but fftfal sfsger; and
man but the foot ball of circumstances Bas give
him love, and he has o. nucleus around which tie
hopes of life can cluster-he has something teliTa
for-something to bid him. aspire something to
nerve his heart in every trial Of life. Give him
Love- and he has consolation in the hour of death,
In the words of ON old school.mate: ~
"Sweet it is
Tolove to feel our hearts together drawn
By nameless ties; and sweet to hope that love
BY death blown out will brightly beam again, i
When Lighted at the Fountain Of all blight !"
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