The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1865-06-21

mo more unjust than your telling me
that was dictatoral and obstinate"
"Well. now, Leander dear. YOU must con
fess that you are IaLe, obstinate
Il don't see the proof"
You insist on your own ways and Opin-
ions so. heaven and earth won't turn YOU -
''DO insist on mine more than you on
yours"
Certainly, you do"
Il don't think So.
Hero casts up her eyes and repeats with
expressiOn,-
r ,oa wad some I'M power the gi'tie gle Is,
Precisely" says Leander. Il would
that prayer were answered in your case. my
dear"
Il think you take pleasure in provoking
me, " says the lady"
My dear, how silly and childish all this
IS !" says the gentleman. why can't We
let each other alone ~
You began il"
mo, my dear, begging your pardon, I
did not"
! Certainly. Leander You did
Now conversation OF this kind may 20
on hour after hour, as long as the respect
I've parties have breath and strength. both
.
/ their way" On both sides is The conscious
ness that they might end il al once bv a
very simple concession.
She might say, We'll, dear, goa shall
always have your salad as you ike and
he might say, My dear / will try 10 ike
your salad, II you care much about it,"
and If either OF them would utter one Of
these sentences the other would soon fO.-
low.
Either would give up if the other would
SET the example; but as il Is, they reni Il
us Oh nothing 50 much a two COWS that
We have seen standing with locked hOras
IN meadow, who can neither advance nor
recede an inch. IL IS Il mere deadlock oi
The animal instinct OF iirmness: rcas ln
conscience, religion have nothing 10 do
with il.
/ The questions debated in this style hy
our young couple were surprisingly nnme-
rOus: as, for example, whether their flyo-
/ rite copy Oi Turner should hang in the par
lUr or IN the library; whether their pei htile
landscape should hang against the wall, OF
be placed On All easel; whether the bust Of
/ Psyche should stand On The marble table DOB
the hail, Or Oil Il bracket in the library: all
OI which points were debated with 4 breadth
Oi survey, richness Oi imagery. a Yigor 0l
discussion, that would Je perfect is rs loni-h-
inS to any one vino knows not hov mach
Two very seli-wi!ied argumeujailte people
might Ind 10 say on any point under ael-
VEN Everything IA cldssica. antiquity. ov-
erything in kngrr's Hand Book of Paint
Ing, every opinion OF living artists besides
questions, social, moral and religious
mingled in The grand saelee: because The @
IS nothing in creation that is not somehow
connected with everything else
DIR. Johns has said, There are a thou
sand familiar disputes which reason can
never decide; questions thai eiude inyesli-
SatiOo, and MAKE logic rI1iculOls: cases
where something must be done. and wher,
little can be said
SANlth all Difference 10 the great mOralist.
we must say that this statement argues a
very limited knowledge OF The resources OF
talk possessed 10y two very cultivated and
very Sel-"hled persons fairly pitted against
eacn other IN practical questions: the logic
may Indeed be ridiculous, but such people
as our Hero aud Leduder hud 10 cases uu-
dei the sun where something Is 10 be done
ycl where little can be said.
And THESE wretched wrangings. this in
lermlnabie labyrinth OF petty disputes.
waste aud crumb,e away tha, h.gh Ideal of
truth ana tenderness, which the real. deeD
sympaihles and actual worth Ol Their char
actcrs, entitled them 10 form. Their mag
red life - not what they expected; al
times they are startled hy the reelection
that they have somehow grown uul0vcly 10
each other; and Yet, ii LeanGer .Oes away
To pass week. and thinks ol his Hero ia
the distance, he can compare no other wo-
man 10 her; and The days seem long and
the house empty 10 Hero while he is gone.
bO,h wonder At themselves when they look
over TIER petty chickering's. but neither
knows exactly how 10 eaten the httie loA
that spOis their vines.
1t Is astonishing how much we think
about ourselves, Yet TO how little purpose
how very clever people viii talk and won
der about themselves and each other. and
yet 90 Oh year after year, not knowing how
10 Use either themselves or each Other
not having as much practical philosophy ia
the matter VI their own characters aud
that OI their friends as tney have IN rcspe Il
al the screws OF their gas-hXtures or The
management OF their water-pipes.
'Alas how light cause NAV move
DsseasiOu bctw-cn hearts tnat love.
Hearts that the world has v.illy triei
And snrIow out more ciasedy Tie.
Ihat Il 'Od thc storm whei. waves were rough,
Yet az sunny hour Ia. o.,
Like Shi. tlat have gone WI -
When hetvea all tranqullit;i
something light ss ar, a l0oA
word unknI, oT wrongly taken
On love that t,Ipes ue e. saOok.
breath, tlucn ike this hlta .iaseui
For ruder words Will soon rush IN
To spread The breach tl4l wOrls be-in,
Aud ,yes forget the seuils ray
They wore H. courtship's smliag lay,
Ana voices lose the the which shed
ten ierne>s round ali ih-y said -
ILL., last declining, one by ono,
The sweetness u love are z lle,
And h a-ts 81 lately mingled seem
LSe broken clouds, or Ike Tire stream
That, sniling, lett the m1unti brow
As thong d It's waters le could sever,
YET, ere II Teach Ihs pain below
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