New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-19

main accepted IFS doctrines Caring little creeds aud
minor points she mQs firmly believed IN human brother
hood as taught 10y Jesus and in a God whose loving
kindness is deep and SO Interchangeable that there can
ages Of eternity when IL ne arise and 20 Him, his Pa
Their will not him off and have compassion upon
him.
In this faith which she las so often sung she lived,
and wrought and hoped and in this faith, which grew
stronger deeper and more assured with years offTa and
one ca5i An Order for Piefnre. in Which she de,
scrbes her early home and her mother and which opens
with the following lines:
Woods and cOnfells little brown
Sc; All the golden, gracious Hsht
.ai i sS S and s T 5SsT ali irs ard a %"
Woods upon woods, and beds Of corn
All ac h he All tbics iSsi p Boon 2'
wff ,n Ge Tad ca i. hn[eIy tnd 1 S1of room
Aud a heife Of sumae sassaf'as,
Tis c@d AMI n ne io sS9 sBesa P9 % ,"1 conn.,
Low and little. and Glact and al,
With cilrD many as il can hob,
All a the windows open wide
Heads shoulders clear outside
And far Young faces all sh.Jshi
Rs, ss. s, yS1 %n e ,s ee S Ss, cay
Ont 81 Vildine, ways.de bush
Listen closer. Wien yoa have done
Mth Gooa ard eo mite 3, and gazing befl'
Oh os S cS ebgS SD yS S ca s s f0'
The clear hue eyes TIE tender smile
The sovereign sweetness, the gentle grace
The vouans eoul, sud the angels iace
! need not sps Ak these foolish wcrs;
Yet word iells you ell l would Say
That al he rest may be thrown away
Dissatisfied with all that she had done especially
with her early writings, Alice sometimes TOOK up Ber
books with the idea Of reviewing correcting ana max
ing from the mass smaller AMI moe ludicl9us seec-
ton but she always ended IN giving II lip as hopeless
true pOetlcal expression and so much that crude,
immature and weak, that the few grains were hardly
of her prose stories there were not than six
eight of the shorter ones and none OF the longer which
when she too young and unpTacteed; all were done
too hastily and with too little care size hoped yet to do
Born Thral" just begun she woqd have put her deep
est thought and maures convictions The story, which
was TO deal with the sorrows and the wrongs of woman
a work dear to her heart which was especially
drawn out toward her own sex she deeply
improvement of woman; aud though not connected WIN
any OF the movements OF Organizations designed toi inns
Office of President Of The first WOmans Club in New
s " S1 o waS ivpg was nar on arcou
of iheah and partly because she felt that this not
her best of working and that what she did must be
done in her own fashion and her own season
OF her poems contained in the illustrated volume be-
thought these among the best viz. THE Young soldier
Our schoolmaster," THE Gray swan" " Ny Faded
seaEef sure Go@oa c %ele
and some of the hymns. Into the volume named "A
Lovers Diary" which dedicated to and much OF il
written IN praise of one OF the household who, being
greatly her Junior and Of feeble frame was her peculiar
care, sister, child and DARING Ahce poured much OF
the tenderness OF her heart. do not know how this
book aieCt OtAefs nut 10 me some or the poems
have most touching and fearful pathos Mona Sick
page 80 IS perhaps one OF the oddest and sweetest IL
affection than that for her kindred, except in dreams of
pOesy she rolled the stone over the mouth Of its dead
sepulcher and sealed it with everlasting silence. Among
the things now hallowed by her there not left
single relic which could reveal such secret Not pic
ture, not written line, not even Withered flower to
say she had loved been beloved And so, knowing
there was one chamber III her heart kept by her always
hand to lift from it now the solemn and eternal curtain
hpr
"ThoHght s and Theories and containing Of he
l nave extracted the following:
With igrtt truly recoueied toTbe,.
A meals, and DO. an esi;
t. DO NY vil;-sneTes. TIE bitter ~o,'b
Of en- f s1d ib s,l ' s, P sSa de4!.
Tie ancient silence Of eternity
Was broken BY the music Of mans lrh
Therefore lev m trOvs,
Or c While dsy y dew 1 on GS'es. '
TOf'rew thy road with Vee.si-fa thy 'CDa'tds
Tbroagh os, and eaveIros, vsyt
In its SLOW working out into iie sGn.
mHls clap your hands ard al ye mountains. 'soat;
He faHiag end, to whore be Nls.st.Hi
N. Niii herbs ~osHdd a{ Ii care siS.
And shields The Iaytas when the rousb viao, tos;
he To e d%TR e %, sa G Prom i S Sa, sew DEATH
AID sfsn lie, then. forge, the bfe Of ,oa,
owe OF bule iatll
Ri. testimony all the tine is sure;
Tie smallest s'ar that eeldh 10 he rght
A-l every deed Of rooj II :. aryslere
Makc;h the hands Of holy women vt'oi
81 uttered. ubutierhbe speech
whatever things night,
These Ills witnesses. az, all sLd saell'
A Alice WAS very active in her habits especially fond
c outdoor exercise and little inclined TO ask OF Others
any service which she could perform for herself the
which for the last eighteen months or her life
I al NOT