The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-05-12

1.-THE following is from the Round
t.,a Table of last week. We presume we
do not err in attributing it to the
fss graceful and accomplished pen of Mr..
r. II. Stoddard:] a XIII.
Ia .rsf WILLIAM sHAKEsPEARE.
Dgh tf1a8t APRIL %, 1884, t.uH
1r- h.dsut JUN5 rsas l--t ffoN4i b"
rs1s She sat in Her Eternal House, 171' q
ff.tt.i,,o The Sovereign Mother Of Mankind; L.r'
Before Her was the peopled World, ~,
'As'-' p The hollow Night behind!
.r.s "Below my feet the thunders break, g.
.....g About my head the stars rejoice; 81 t.,r p
But Man. although he babbles much'
'N Has never found Voice!
g LLErTen thousand years have come and gene,
And not an hour any day
rs.,., But he has dumbly looked to me
Fhethngs he could not sayl' .
U-sa siIt shall be so no more" she said, n
Be- a5a And then, revolving in Her mind, ..a
She thought 81 wHl create child r.s
Shall speak for all his kind" ..
1ih*I II was the spring time Of the year,
.rtF Yd Andioi where Avon's waters how, ..
LgqH ~, The Child, Her darling, came on earth
...s3 Three hundredyears ago.
't There was no porten to the sky,
H.Ia f No cry like Pans, along the seas;
30 UAi)a Nor hoyered round his baby mouth
-g.er.t'{ The swarm Of classic beest .. .
'''.' What other children were, he was,
-..t-t7)4 II more twas not TO mortal ken;
sE ie Fhe beng hHest, 10 mankind ..' '.H a
tl Made him the Man of Mcni i.a. r..
They gossiped, after he was dead, .
-Hla9, I. An idle tale Of stealing deer
-tuas One thinks he studied Law, and one
Taught scbool-but naught is clear.
Z Save that he married in his youth, '
's1~ 1 A maid his elder went to Town;
Wrote plays; made money! and at last
--g.t ..s Came back and settled down.
A-prosperons man among his kin,
In Stafford, where his bones repose,
And this-what can be lessl is oil
E,-...s sF The world Of Shakespeare knows!
1t irks us that we know more,
"fie For where we love, we would know all;
81 . What would be small common men,
.H .aHs Ing great IS never small.
Their daily habts-how they looked
s- The color Of their eyes and hair
-t Their prayers their oaths-the wine they drank
.rtt t." The clothes they used towear- :
Trlacs like these declare the man,
And should survive tlIeth-nay, they must
Wen find them somewhere If Rneeds,
Wen rake among their dust!
Not shakespeare'sl He hathle his curse
On him disturbs IT. let it rest
The sacredest that death
Laidin the earth's dark breash
Not to himself did he belong,
Nor does his life belong to us;
Enough, he ,cas; give o'er the search
lf.H... II he were thus, or thus,
Before he came, his like was not
NorleR he heirs to share his powers;
The Mighty Mother sent him here,
TO be Her Volce-and ours
To be Her Oracle to Afan
To be what Man may be to Her;
Between the Maker and the Made
~ The best Interpreter.
..-F The hearts Of all men beat in his
Alike in pleasure, and in PAIN;
And he contained their myriad minds
Mankind in Heart and Brainl
Shakespeare What shapes are conjured up
By that one verdi They come ndgo,
More zeal, shadows though they be-
Than many man we know.
Hamlet the Dane-unhappy Prince,
r Who most enjoys when suffering most;
His soul is haunted by ITSELF ...
There needs no other Ghosti
The Thane whose murdurous fancy sees
The dagger painted in the air;
The guilty King who stands appalled,
When Banquo fills his chart
Lear in the tempest old and crazed-
'.BloU irindsi Spit fire, SINCE my rhitc hedd'
Or, sadder, watching for the breath
OF dear CordeliR-dead
,. The much abused, relentless Jewl
Grave Prospero In his magic Isle; -
And She who captiyed Antony
The Serpent Of old Nile!
Imperial Forms heroic Souls, .EI.
' Greek, Roman--masters Of the world;
Kings, queens-the soldier, scholar, priest
TheIcourtier, sleek and ctrled;-
He knew and drew all ranks ofmen
And did such life TO them impar
They grew not od--Immortal Types,
l..ttfsy The lords Of Life aad Artl s.4.
Their Sovereign, he, as She was his,
The Awful Mother Of the Race,
Who, hid from all Her chldrens eyes,
-" Unveiled to him Her face: 'oj
l..,, spaks to him till Her Speech was known,
Through him till Man had learned it-theu
Enthroned Hmm Her Heavenly House,
ff The Most Supreme Of Men
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taken for good temper: but the lii