New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-31


critic that to hun 1t is only jange aud dthy-
Tamh
The criticism that In the six the refrain always exactly
compliments Of the stanza and does not In the
Take it In the Last stanza Of the six, for example,
"Clasped to yOar heart n loving embrace
With yoor light lashs. ju'i sweeping my face
Never hereafter to wake or TO Neept
Rock sleep. mother. rock Inc to ssepl"
There Is Just "a much fun IN this elimination the
refrain a. IN anything the writer cites so as to infecl'
ties Of expression tile same hypercrcism, II It wore
sufficiently paid, could detect them IN the ak, e. g.:
Smooth few silver threads on, Of ny hair4"
We have heard OF smoothing wrinkles on broW-bus
can't ina CINE hairs sm0othed out OF a head Again,
NO other worship abi1es sBd endures.
Raithial uEsel6sh, and patient Ike yours
Or again,
"Slncs las, listened Jour lullsty sooG'
as Mrs Aker5 has it, contrasted with
Since Is hushod 70 Jour Lullaby song
as SIR Ball wrote it. ,.--..,r..
This same style Of criticism has torn Grays Eegy to
pcccs hundred tmes bus she world still loves u for all
that yea and believes I'm his authorship though lie never
wrote anything else 10 compare with IT, In this conhee-
non we NAV as well remark that the poem Rock Ine to
Sleep stands utterly without affinity III BITS AAei 'OF
Again It is elegantly said that any not utterly be
sotted with stupidity must recognize IL rs purify .
touch guominy that: but we have another thought
There is grOsencss sometimes reached wheh pulu,
experience OF fc-or sensuality, It may be-has burned
out every nober nstnctto which seems mystery OF
eccenriCty that nan eau glow Win warm ana teher
heart To such "a mind, sacred memory may readily
take on Tho comic picture Of vskers and boots rocked
But this haowed fame has burned bright and pure IN
many manly breast, a. biographies OF our pest ana
greatest ates-men who ala not rear te charge OF Wta
ness when they gave expression to their love Bishop
Jewell" saws WiOtt, had his mothers name engraved
on spnet ring and Lord Bacon poured lbs heart into
one short sentence In his viii: For my burial desire
may ho IN St Mchaes Church. near -. Allasi tbero
~ NV motb,r buried' At Duwich, in a dark gown,
ttd %ifh iur holding book. we see the mother OF
Nv her wofcbfuI tenderness Pope wrote no lines
~, TING he inscribed
mother I'm the garden Of Twickenham By COWpere
on his mothers picture we mshs aEe e ses
thing very little known, which If, that IN ones Whoe e
never have any more than slngle W.
celebrated persons pot pnkpOYn 10 Gray WarDurton ana
Hnrd have toatf.d The same chQsa x feepsi and IN
uOrn times It's music has been head IN the l9Hes VI
genius" - r-
But these men are a lower plane than ". They
Bacon ard the restalo TOO Eoaanly men toT sun
whining Tor bis Othcr Long beard eImne ana neh top
boots f6ndled IN lis mothers arms" We hear W ear,
Court this win shou1a have been dSllowed OF probate
Under the ruling Of ITO anecdote 10 ehQu . Oi TO
liable testimony could have overcome the nterhh eN
dence that IL was womans Win, aud not mans" No
skeptlcsm Is more hopeless and We spare our Wofds
man Who looking "backward" can fatty speak Of a
ma ride " yearsa man who has long fe!t mother
overflow Of true incident, containing feprAgs WITHIN II
yelling mp End indicating shat II was real loss that WOKE
poem; aud We hceye IL Is watched over by Providence
that VIM allow IL TO become the source a. stigma 70
its author IL must prcsupp)sc some very tau ode 81
living To bring such an "utt0r world wearintss, rs w
claims lhe poem eyncos, upon the fresh bloom OF woman
hood aud lace the hair with silver threads, ~ twenty
five. We can suppose tha1 young woman Ol tua, ~
under. might nave the genius out OF pure IAney' 70
But snch as this nev6fl Like ap amslgam. u sinks
through every fiber Of being, searching out ana MAP
Ming Into if,f every atom OF true golden iceuS ~ hs
tLat subtle power which flows from experience to e2ge
llrnee lmagi lntOn may produce the dramatic eipe-
rrnce only tho real, and this at an iminehse re- )'e
sneo Srns Tits We find that MT Morse has already
pu the argument With great force OnolS these s'''4
lines tUm the poem:
Com, lie, your bro-r hair iu,, Eghtsd 9TH eo4'
And again: ,...,...-.-,o,,,r,,
s. ks Il. ~ sl; ii ia i' 90, I
He urge, certainly the ease either party here viii
be helped. whose facts wiz accord Win LIS , & ~ H
Vrer whoever that writer was TWAS not eoheeNeu Dut
~ l. IA MOI aT1se from the BRAIN fancy but from
tbc heart or would not 1nd an answering chord IN 80
many beart" And he that lie has seen one OF the
tres.s Of he hair of his friends mother. and that
., ~ brown Hinged with auburn; and that his friends
Forehead IL urowed and the silver threads are In his
a. 70 the answering facts IN the " the fair
ianant TO mart Of the Tines there evidence hand
which must b. considered satisfactory. speaking as
widow aud t understood that in the ylcstudes Of her
life she has lot long since been Ia thar condition. she
says page No. I49, Mrs. Akers's Poems);
"'h ne the red Is yes upon my cheek.
I,Erra NY har nlrs sh,ae. no v''r1iag ,irraS
AMI ns .rs.. meeting sheh Jon painted"
There ,s one more point which must met otherwise
II viii be said dare not meet II, which on me c9h
y,
10 ye 10 his work dignity Of which il were otherwise
dctiutr seeks To fasen Mr.. Ball supposed pagiar-
ft he can no more repress hs childish gee than could
Gsays fayorite eat at sight Of the golden FISH Ter
cousciOrs tail her JOY declared" Certainly II was adroy
done aud % well that Mr.. b. seeing II, Immediately,
without sufficient SCRUTINY, IN the honesty OF hs heart
vrute an apology 10 that lady with the following STATE
,urnt: II have the first recollection Of ever having
seen your poem, but 20 deny IL would DC absurd Whe inc
evidence conclusive. Porhapst was published Wheh
u was fret written, IN bewsphpe anu iVau ~ no
that way dor | am very CONFIDENT never saw YOUR
bound youme and the Extreme beauty OF the Thought
impressed upon me, and became interviewer mo iny
heart and mind and years after most uncohseous lVuhu
T,s has an the sound Of an honest mans statements
and there need Of IL, the explanation good and
have received II rs we shall presently see bue VIC
propose 10 show that he u an honest man VINO mas
heen al ay i'm his letter but fora forgery OF the record
IN fact cannot see why he need have troubled hiinse
1ho unprncpled critic 10 make his case puts in the
Grst staHIa Of Mrs. Whitman's poem;
"Iu the sOn gloom Of an Au'amnA day.
While the original reads:
"In The son light ofAn Au,umna day
AN expresson entirely distinct from the other and
trite n the soft silYfry light OF the NOON
TO have used The former from another might posslDy
have heen plagiarism. To use tho latter could only DO
10 avail oneself OF Of the stock expressions OF ts
poets Asst l., he Is entitled TO an idea entirely distinct
from hers. Having tins line staring MN ~ me lace anu
the other minor rcsomblancos he was deceived into WIFI
Ing whnt he did IN explanation above .., S.. 49,.
on course TIL, discovery mercilessy used Dy our
savage ctlc; but his hereene.s carried him hsadI9ng
down the sleeps Of folly lie exclalins Where Mt; bi
cannot sop up the Bes he takes isolated phrases words
Isle y aud even tones and echoes" We VIII gNe lis nrst
example. Mr. Bah snys
"Mynini will wandsr back years three and twenty
Mrs. whitman says;
Hove tu uonder through the woodlands hoary'
But let both poet ana poetess Vail ther isc.s ~" ~,
after eXhausting research are able confidently 70
auuOnucs TO the world the discovery that TINS may be
traced 10 distinguished euthoress more ancien g,t
either who may be- supposed TO be addressing our ec
from her grave:
Goos.y gootey gsudsr whittier dosl hon WdHdtr'
In the name Of wander, WONDER what Ia plagiarism
ur RON h, Lis pocg has mol single sentiment, moughL
or GdetiGr OF hOughL set6dnce az hohgh "a eon
mon oih Mrs WhAaHl II be- has poetical eNpIessi"ns
tones and echoes how many poets there who nave
NOT a. presons In with their reading-cA pres