The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-18
THE OMNIBUS.
THE PYTHoNEss.

from her cheek ~
For the force of the spirit has lett her all pad ana nerve
less and weak" .
And lightly the eopardskn mantle drew my shivering
They bent their faces to kiss me, with tenderness
mingled with awe
Reverng the god his prieess whose word is obeyed
By the terrible an whose egons await but bend of his
To spread DER the nation like ocust and heap the valleys
with dead. ,
NY counsel restraints himunsoened by goblet and gold
The gods give me promise of favor and keep what they will
unrevealed!
And l. oh unhappy! am chosen be flute which is
By the powerful breath of immoras to music which is not
its own;
Soo strained to tones uperhuma unneo or use or
delight,
The tremuous flute will lie shattered, cast out from remem
brance and sight
Nv madens have left to slumber but tears scorch my
eyelids instead .
Tears bitter with passionate envy of those either living
Not as |, who exist in illusion, with body and soul
Possessed by terrible spirit pierced through by fiery
Caught up by whrlwnd tormented with light too intense
Then left with all consciousness darkened wake in
haustion and pain.
mighty and cruel Apollo thy gift is despair and the
My M like wreck the ocean, is tossed to and fro by the
wave
PREcocITY.-Bad however, at the best fallacous as
the forcing system may become when applied to the pure
development of the intellect may be turned TO results
ncomparaby noxious in other departments of culture
There people who take delight In witnessing among
children and young people pecocous familiarity with the
sentiments and the phraseoogy OF religion we are not
speaking of what is commonly known as Bible knowledge
an acquaintance with the text of Scripture with Jewish his
tory or doctrines and antiquities of the Christian Church
There may be no HARM far concerned
in examining the memory any extent with the kings of
Tcrap1a nd uda he
detrimental because morbid and unnatural IN the young
the habit of apng the spiritual talk OF their elders ana
assuming an tone OF religious dctatlon
which is wholly foreign their age and mental condition
To young people either barely out of the nursery
dscoursng their experience rebukng the aithessnes
the heerodoxy or the backding of those around them
every person of melancholy prognostc
of the future of those precocous witnesses or confessors
Such familiarity with sacred themes and feelings Is out OF
keeping with the simplicity and which belong OF
right the young Their personal feelings are the last
things that pure and boys and girls naturally
to pirate about Their inner consciousness is depth
which they have little inclination for looking into And to
encourage stimulate the sensitive mind of youth to force
the of the sanctuary and to lay bare the secrets OF
the SOUL the of bunting the keenness of its
native purity There is sickness in what silly parents
often point at with pride in their offspring early pety
angel goodness which makes doubt its power to last This
sanness of the dollhouse to face the rough and
nclement blasts of the world 1t will fare badly under the
heats temptation the chills of disappointment
.Angelicus juvenis senibus sathanzat in anns"
In the still concise and phy yernacuar of our own
forefathers, "a young saint old devil Such warning
saws are of vehemen abured by pess of certain
order who parade with pride the preernatual grace and
wisdom of their babes and sucklings Nor we perceive is
this hobed system of development peculiar to one shade OF
religious opinion 1t used thought to be the char
acteristc Of school with whom prodge like the Dairymans
Daughter formed the standing ideal was them not without
surprise that met not long with the report OF sermon
of Father Ignau in which the application of such test to
the religion of school boys seemed to be urged as the true
criterion of every model school, "Schoolmasters the
preacher complained advertised the number of their
pupils who gained fellowships and passed examinations
but they advertised the number of boys taught to love
Jesus" "Young ladies' schools too just as bad Les
extremes Sc oucen 1t is longer singular mark OF the
patent Christians of Chaplain that their children are wont to
speak weety of Jesus" We find the like nfantlne mixture
of balm and honey expected by monks of Norwich drip
from the lips of candidates for school prizes Can there be
something ominous in this strange of ideas
between the fanatics of schools opposed in fundamental
matters Of belief? The rising generation precocous is