New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-06


prejudees and their piQuaney, afford whimsical
comparison between the estimate of certain cele'
brated men at that day, and at the present. We
uuote one or two of Che most striking although they
arc not forgotten by any TO whom they had once
been known. -
.There comes fret, whose rich wcrds' every
Are iFe gold nails in temples to hang trophies on,
Whose prose ID grand verse, while LIS VERSE; inc Lof'
Il some q il pr No. t is not even prose; .c,o,
I'm speaking Of meters: some poems nave Wtheu 49,
From those depths Of soul tsat have he or peen eA
They're not epios hut that does MT matter pin,
In creating. the only hard things to ieFini
A grasebade no easier 10 MAKE Ihau w "an ho rapf
you've found the way, you've aeheNed 'he s''''
In the worst Of his poems mines Of rich matter
But thrown IN heap with er, sS anu i '''''''
Now 10 is not one thing nor another aiVno
Nlkes a poem. hut rather the general tone,
'rie something peryadng. uniting the Wuoie
Fac before uReenceiVed, uncoheeisaD soa'' m
so that jHst in removing TINS tTiic or ulsei you
Take away, as II wers cliCf ltinD oi the ttalGe.
Roofs wood, bark, and leaves Slgl] periest may ne,
But olapt hodge-pOdge together, they d MAKE 'iee
But TO come back to Emerson whom, by the way
believe we left waitinCl,-bis IS, we may say -
A Greek head right Yankee shoulders, Enn s ranso
la, ol inpus for one POLE ipf GTt5s TN G ofsd
The comparison must long ere this have been hsntl
Ana tbe Gasrons sirSwd wit chcok-6y jowl eoexisti
Al admire, aud yet scarcely SIX converts ne so'
FSr Though lie hriids glorious temples, Z is odd
He leaves never a doorway to get in q god.
Il Is refreshing TO oid-fashioned people axe ne
10 meet such primitive Pagan as Le 49,,
An9 PI No 81 WSs 70 Worship TIC stars ana the sun
convert to-nOthing but Emerson.
So perfect a balance there is in his head,
Tat he talks " things sometimes il they were dead
Life nature, love, God, and affairs OF that sort
lie looks at a. merely ideas IN Short o,,uo.
or such vast extent that our csIth's mere DAB III
Namely one part pure earth, nineIy-nine parts pure
You are ied with delight at his clear demonstration,
Each figure, word, gesture, just cts the OCCASION
with the quiet precision OF science ne ~ SOFT en-
But you can't help suSpeeting the Whoie PoS'"
Thcre are persons molebHnd to the souls make and
Who insist on likeness twixt him and Caryle;
To compare him with Plato would be vastly talrer'
CaTlyleis the more burly but f. IL the rarer;
He sees fewer objects, but clearlier, trulier,
II &c ss original. E's more peculiar; =. ,he ora
That he's more Of a you might say OF the Vhek
OF the other he's more Of an Emerson;
C.'s the Titan as shaggy OF nlnd as OF Iihln,-
D The elesreed 0lympian rapid ana nb sP Rsf areeR
Where the ones most Astounding, the others 10 SEEK
c. generals require to be seen IN the mass
a. ,yes nature and God his own fits of the blues.
And rims comnon-sense things with mystical hues,-
y sits in a mystery calm and intense 1900.
And looks cOoly around him with sharp common sense
With the dim transdiurnal reeesses OF night
While E, in plain, preternatural way,
Makes mysteries matters of mere every Gay
He don't sketch their bundles Of muscles and theWs iuy
But he paints with brush 80 unframed ana pr9iqse,
They seem nothing but bundles OF muscles ana lne"7j
n is rather Ike Flaxman, lines strait aud severe,
And cooress outline Int fpll fon n1 anu accors
Tie design of a white marble statue In WORDS
G. abors to get at the center, and then 49, $40,
Take a reckoning from there OF MS actohs anu men,
r. calmly assumes the said center as granted
And, given himself, has whatever Is wanted
"Ue has imitators in scores who omit
No part of the but mis- wisdom aud wit
Who 60 carefully DER the sky-bluc OF his BRAN,
And when he has skinned II once, skim IL again;
To 81
Because their shoals mirror his msts and obscurtes
A. a mud-puddle seems deep as heaven Tor minute,
While cloud that floats Ger Is reflected Wlthln H.
A1coTr AND BRowNsoS.
"Yonder calm a cloud, Alcott stalks in dream,
And fancies himself i'm thy groves, Academe,
with the ParthenOn Nigh and the oliyetrees Ger him,
And never a fact TO perpleX him or bore him, - l..
with snug room at Pato's, when night comes, 10
And people from morning TIL midnight TO talk TO,
And from midnight TIL morning nor snore IN then
90 he muses., bis face with tho Joy of it estenins
Where they'd live upon aeOrns and hear him talk gratis
And indeed believe no man ever t
He seems pllng words, but there's royal dnst LIN
In the heart OF each sky-piereing pyramid
While he talks he is great. but goes ont like taper
III Won shut him up closely with pen. ink, and paper
And he thinks he does wrong II he don't always write
IN this, as in all thugs lamb among s men, h. non
"Cose behind him is Brownson. his mouth very ful
With attempting TO Rulp Gregorian bull;
Who contrves spite Of that to pour OUT as nc goes
That It's merely the earth himself that turns round
That the weathercock rules and not follows the wind;
Proving first then as deity eonfuting each side;
Ne lays the dener away on the shelf, ~
And then-doyn beside him lies giayely hiinsen.
10 convey friend or foe without charging shilling,
And 40 fond of the trip that when lesres to spare,
He'll row himself up, If he can't get fare.
the worst OF II is that his logic's so strong,
That Of two sides he commonly chooses the wroDgi
here re v,
Aud first pumlnel this half then that biack ana Due
That whites white needs no proof but IL takes deeI
TO prove It jet-black and that jetbsek is yellow.
when il reaches your lips there's naugh left 10 believe
But few sily-tsyO-, meal gsms that squat en-
Like tadpOes oeTjOyed with the mud at the BOTTOM
THEODORE PARKER.
"Here comes Parker the 0rson OF psIso1a a man
fI'he Church OF Socinus mean)-his opinions
Being so-(ura) cinan, they shocked inc s9cimsns;
Their belief believing in nothing At all,
For u general union of total dissent;
He went step farther; without cough or hem,
He frankly ayowed he believed not In them;
F Fay their orthodox kind Of dissent he dssented
here was heresy here, you perceive, for the right
H. becS eysnfed 10 me. for deciding on you;
AID in happier times before Atheism grew,
I'll deed contained clauses for cooking you TOO.
Nov al XeTxes and Knut we all laugh, yet our foot
viii the same wave is wet that Knocked XerXes and
And We All entertain sincere private notion
That 1ur thus far! will have great weight with the
Twas ~ with our liberal Christians they bore
Win sinyerest conviction their chairs 70 the shOrej
The. braadshed their worn theological brehes,
Bad, nat sral progress peep out OF the Churches,
And expected the Ines they had drawn to prevail
With ne fist rising ide TO keep out Of their pale;
They had foune rly damned the Pontdoal See,
And thing tey thought, would do nicely for RI
But he tned np his NEE at ther murmuring and sham
ming
And cared shah say y lot d for their dsmning;
so they nrs resd him or Of their church. and next
But The ban tn small or IN; was too big.
For nc fecks D0 their bells, book. and candles g