The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-31
from the Southern Society.]
AYISIT TO THE BIRTHPLACE OF SHAKES
PERE,

PEREZ
We arrived very late at Stony STRAIT
ford, tire birthplace of the immortal
Shakespeare. Determined not to lose
time, [ rose while the stars still twink
led amidst the gray clouds. and soon
beheld the first rosy beams of the morn
ing dawn. | walked Oh the shores of
the Avon, which serpeutined and bah
hled along quite in poetic manner.
| sat down on rustic bench near the
stream, and watched the ducks on it
plume their variegated wings. The
calm beauty Of the landscape, the will
lows arching over the sparkling waters,
and STOPPING their silver foliage Gas if
to drink" and the recoilections which
the birthplace of "Nature's darling "
gave rise to, filled me with indescri-
bable emotion. The few bright clouds
scattered oyer the blue Of the heavens,
the dew-tlrops glittering OIL the haw-
thorn hedges or the green lawn, and
the flowers of all hues which embroidcr-
ed the ground and "wrought mosaics,' y
recalled to mind the singularly beauti-
ful and expressive line of 'rasso:
Pareau s:clIati campi, e IL ciel horito.
(The fields with stars, The sky with iOw'rs
secEl'd drcssed.)
/ visited the house in which Shakes
pere was born. Il is very coarse
building, paved with bricks, and wall
ed with the same materials roughly
plastered over. My cicerone was an
old wnman with nose like beet root;
her eyes rcsembIed the unextiu@uished
snuff of fartling candle, cleaning
through the horn of a dark lantern :;
her cap was about as clean as dish
clout, and her elf locks dan9lcd from it
in wild disorder. / sat in Shakespere's
chair, handled the frustum of his match
lock, and peeped into Friar Lawrencc's
lantern, very much TO the satisfaction
of my guide.
The body of great poet Of nature
lies in the chancei of very old and
mouIdering church on the banks of the
lnurmHrin" Avon. Leading to the
church-gate is an avenue made of the
intcrlaeins of bougTs, forming luxu-
rious arciied way, which cannot be bet
ter described than in the words of the
delightful author whose spirit seems to
perva,Ie this sacred spot:
peach'd bower
Where hOneysuclles, ripened by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter.
Shakespeare is undoubtedly the first
of modern poets who hailed the glories
of the antique world, dawninG through
the dark abyss time. His plays alone
are expressions of the passions, not des-
eliptions of them; he appears to idcn-
tify himself with the characters he re-
presents, and to pass from one to the |
other, like the same soul aniiuating diff |
ferent bodies; lie throws his ilnagina- |
tion out of himself into the parsonage
he creates, and makes lis feel all that |
passes within his soul; the gusts of pas
sion come and 60 like sounds OF music
borne on the winds! His writing is
beautiful in all its varieties; it is wrapt
mp in rich redundant veil of poetry,
where everything breathes the pure es-
sence of genius and sensibility.
He who adn,ires Nature in all her
wildness and irregularity, will excIaim,
6 Shakespeare, with all thy faults l love
5hee still.'' Indeed, am fully persuad-
ed that a classical education would
rave cramped his great and original ee- 1
lius, and that instead of becoming the 7
'oet OF nature, he would have been a a
most faultless, elegant and polished ver- Q
ifier, like Otway, and would not have
AIKEN much higher flight. But it is f.
lot by the bubbling murmurs of ze- g
'hyrs sleeping in the ear, that the nigh h
y tempest Of the passions is to be j
wakened; louder tones must be found
o WELD that thunder and direct that G.
torn which is to make the blood pace J
trough the veins, wiring the heart with ei
horror, or rend it with agony. fl
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