The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-20
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| On Saturday night last, the fifth lecture of the
course before the Library Association of the Charles
street Methodist Episcopal church, was delivered
! by John G. SAKE, Esq. Mr.. SAKE stated the sub
ject of his poem which was Glove" and briefly
presented the argument in prose- He then in a
humorous strain, commenced his exordium, by
showing that the passion of Love was as old as
Adam, and had been universally experienced in all
ages and countries wherever mankind is to be found
| Love is the Poets hoIiest fondest theme,
His inspiration and his thought supreme.
After happy illustration OF the power of Love- in
inspiring the Poet to attune his verse to harmonious
numbers, as exemplfed by Robert Burns, Mr.. SAKE
proceeded to speak of the power of maternal love,
which shines brightly the mothers offspring,
| even though unworthy of that holy passion How
| ever erring son may be- the thought upper
most in a mothers mind is that he is still her boy
Love of country was the next subject of the Poet
lecturers Muse, in which he took occasion to lash
those Grabbed cyncs who patriotism
Name with a frown, or mention with a sigh
As the lost virtue of age gone by.
Nor did the sham patriot-the man who is will
ling enough to serve his count ry with mere words
escape the castigation. OF this character, the
poet said,-
Ere he would see his darling country sink
He'd shed gallon of his dearest-nk. (Laughter).
He then launched his satire with cutting effect on
those foreign Adventures
CnsavOry Counts of small account at home,
who disnterestedly leave their country, in or
der to assist in settling the weghty affairs of the
United States. The love of the human race in
general was then treated and the answer of our
Saviour to the question, "Who is my neighbour"
referred to as the pattern by which mankind ought
to be guided in their intercourse with their kind,
and charity and benevoence recommended to-
wards all
''On whom Gods finger writes the name of man.
Referring to the divine nature of charity, he made
beautiful allusion to the allied armies and their
bloody encounter with the hosts of the North on
the field of Balaklava, and spoke of the six hun
dred by whom the glorious charge of that bloody
day was made. Many, he said, that witnessed
those struggles
That tells the deeds of Florence Nightingale
After sarcastic allusion to the misanthrope
| overfowing with bile, he concluded this division
of the story by saying that it was for man
To do his duty, be it great or small
And leave the rest to Him who governs all
On entering upon the theme of Love between the
| sexes Mr.. Sake humOrously depicted the change
able Miss, who is too good-natured to allow any of
her swains to sigh in vain, and next changing to
a more serious strain he alluded to the disastrous
love of Anthony for Cleopatra:
On the deep of raging passion tossed
He sinks, his honor and his kingdom lost.
lie then drew, in happy colors, pictures of the
rustic nymph, the city belle, and a whole bevy of
beauties in different situations, finishing off with the
ancient novel-reading damsel, who pores over her
novel
Till the last chapter, just in the nick of time
Brings the rich uncle from foreign cline.
The universal power of Love, as exempfeld in
the male sex, was finally depicted under a variety
of circumstances The old bachelor, however, re-
ceived the roughest handling Among other un-
amiable characteristics, he painted as a sort of
ogre, upon
Whom little children, as they hasten by,
Look with alarm and quick -averting eye.
Whom widows mention with pathetic air,
A rather rShattered-cVery knows where
Ifsuch there be, said the poet,
Who but must feel some pity for his fate
Fen though he held the highest chair Of State.
Respecting constancy in love, he related the well
known anecdote of the English officer returning
from the Crimea minus both arms and with scar
red face. He sends his comrade to his betrothed,
acquaintng her with his mutilated condition, and
offering to release her from her engagement; but
she nobly answers:
Tell him, my lad, that if his heart is WHOLE
And he has frame enough to hold his soul
I'll have him So the message sped,
And with her hand upon his heart the twain wed
Mr.. SANE next touched upon Free Love-and
Divine Love, treated in a serious and reverentia
manner, concluded the POem-that Love of which
even the Patriarchs and earlier Hebrew prophets
were ignorant but which has been left for the Chris
tian to realize
He Saviour smiling from above.
And in "Our Father learns that "GOd is Love.n