Smyrna times., 1867-05-01
MG0OD BVE.M

just as every one holds some days in the
calendar dearer than others, from the memo
ries they evoke, SO have most men favorite
words which speak Of past and fond associa-
tions. Indeed, many words are national favor
ties, and the consideration of the influences
they exert upon national character, opens a
wide field of inquiry which philologists are too
apt to neglect What marvellous pages of his
tory do we owe, both in ancient and modern
times, to that one word Z" Liberty !" Who can
tell what depths of affection are stirred up in
the Swiss peasant heart, by the Ran dez
vdches," or in the expatriated German, by
Among words most dear to domestic people
like ourselves, are home" welcome" and
"good d-bye." They recall some of the most
touching remembrances Of our life, instanta-
neously bringing before us scenes, and conver
sations, and persons around whom clustre the
fondest memories. The mere mention of good
bye," at once calls forth our sympathy. 1t is
one of the dearest, and yet the saddest words
in the language.
Goodbye" belongs especially to domestic
life. When the devoted three hundred part
ed from their friends before Thermoplse, or when
Regulus put aside his weeping wife before
leaving Rome for Carthage, they bade them
farewell. The fire of patriotism burnt so fierce
ly within them, that it consumed self and all
the ordinary human affections Their farewell
(as we call it) was altogether objective and he
roic. Again, when Mary Queen Of Scots, as
in that picture we can all so well remember,
strained her eyes to catch the last faint out
lines of ia belle France" she waved it her
adieux. She left with it, once for all her best
wishes and fondest regret, and then betook her
self resolutely to the task of tanning rough
Scotch hearts
With the parting of the queen or the SOL
der, are none of the tender associations con-
tanned in good bye" it would not suit these
cases, and is repugnant to the dignity of histo-
ry. But, whenever in daily lite the heart parts
! from a person to whom it is deeply attached,
it wishes him goodbye" Just as it takes
two to make quarrel, so there must be two
warm and responsive hearts for true good
| bye," though one is amply sufficient for the
more frigid " farewell" We can bid good
| bye" to lovely prospect, or subject which
has long engaged our thoughts, or house
where we have been happy; but 1t Is only be,
cause we personify them in some sort, and
fondly dwell en- them until affection has trans
figured and rendered them sentiment, as il
were. to our regard. In common with all oul
noblest feelings, the seutiT ents of goodwill
which find utterance in goodbye, belong II
our better nature. OF course custom, in toC
many cases dullS the full perception OF all tina
is contained in the fervent wish, God be Will
you!' but even in the pOrcine and leguminou
affections Of the agricultural laborer, Ito quote
the type least removed from earth, next to tn
grief that refuses to be comforted because hi
bacon rations are scanty, must probably bt
placed his sensations, on wringlng his sweet
, heart hand and saying, Well, old girl, guide
bye!' i.
, Goodbye" has an immense superiority j
cOmprehensiveness over the ordinary valedlC
= tory formulas of the ancients, and in warmt
: of feeling over the modern "addio" all
"adieu." Perhaps In the "sdLue Gternur
oEteraumq,e rGle" of the Latin poet are be-
blended the two notions of good wishes frol
? one S self for another-the subjective and oil
) jective views-that meet SO happily in oil
: goodbye" The saddest side of the sent
\ ment which finds vent in goodbye" come
i i out in epitaphs
81 In the boy goodbye" there is no sal
y ness, for hope paints tomorrow IN hrlghtC
4 colors than yesterday manhood's goodbye
> is thoughtful, and slightly sad, for who CT
81 tell how often he may return? But the tu
: ness of sorrowing goodbye" is in the 0
OF man s parting. Humanely speaking, he ca
ne not reckon on another meeting after even Il
NJ briefest absence. A woman's goodbye"
ry usually less Of trouble to her than it is to
ng man, except in cases where her affections a
a most concerned. He is more reflective, mo
a apprehensive of change even in the commo
L. how nature sympathizes with our parting
by some times more than at others. How mu
Ia worse is it to part with friend in winter tn
ne in summer, at evening than at midday, on
Ell gloomy day than on bright one! On So
he occasions, nature seems more than usua
"a, clairvoyant of our souls
he Seeing that life is mainly made up Of pa
se- ings, it is no wonder that We dwell with
iat fondest affections on those separations VIII
OF the intervening gulf is spanned by the elect
om heartiness of goodbye" With us, the I
,he minus of our good wishes in such q case
Hearts Content.
we "Good-byes' are seldom pleasant. Perh
m- they are least unpleasant at a country-hous'
ew ausumn, when the natural feeling of regret,
lur we part with one round of acquaintances,
put to fight by the arrival OF fresh circle
DO, friends. Then the sentiment 80 aptly expr
ma, ed in Pope's celebrated line
raw "WeIsome the coming, speed the parting CUES
,er. U- robs the " goodbye" of its bitterness. s
,rd- this applies only to those remaining; depart
the friends are no wise aided In taking phllosol
ta. cal parting by the remembrance Of past ha
ncv HESS. DOuDIleSS, as IN every OLneI part
ish- some Of their eyes dwell with last fond {
~ on lovod face, or the walk beside the bee
the mountain side, purpled with heather
itans golden with gorse. For many long day ths
lOr dence of that last song will inger in theire
ill' and memories of those restfnl hours hi
their dreams. Perhaps next year brings {
hlad % back, and, though everything seems mucl
Z auo usual. something is sure to be different.
ORA ap old days never come back again. So man
eae to think, and, one by one, we garner up
alge precious relics of the past into our hearts
else, a m;ser hangs over b;s store or q lone
.g takes out of his desk ribbon or few
dies violets, eloquent in their silence Of other
filed and faces long moulded in the dust,
ming ghosts as these do not come TO trouble JOY
and rather to intensity il. They are echoes,
mber lowed by distance Of the most touching 4
ill be byes' Of life,
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