The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-17

OSOANb q
To bloody thoughts, and deeds Of death
The evil genius of Macbeth:
But thy strong will must break,
Ana tiny poor heart must ache.
Sleeping. she sleeps not; night betrays
The secret that consumes her days.
Behold her where she stands.
And rubs her guilty hands.
From darkness, by the midnight fire,
W1thered and weird, in wild attire,
starts spectral on the scene,
The stern, old Gypsy Queen.
She croons his simple cradle song.
she Will redress his ancient wrong
The rightful heir comes back
With murder on his track.
Commanding, crouching dangerous. kind,
Confusion in her darkened mind,
The pathos of her years
OOmpelS The soul to tears.
Bring laurell Go, ye tragic Three,
And strip the sacred laurel tree,
And at her feet layrdown
Here, now, a triple crown.
Salve, Regina! Art and Song. p
dismissed by thee shall miss theeIong.
4 And keep thy memory green
Our most tllustrious Queen!
After the enthusiastic demonstration
which the reading of this po1m elected.
William Cullen Bryant presented Miss
Cushnan with a wreath of oak leaves. adj
ISL ~ SAuSs
W. c. BRYANT's ADDRESS.
"MADANI-The members of the ArcadIan
Club have requested me to present to you.
in their name, this crown of laurel. woven
for the OCCASION. Although little familiar
of late years with matters pertaining to the
stage, L make it a pleasure TO comply with
the request. Be pleased to receive this
wreath as a token, both of their profound
for your genius and their high
esteem for ycur personal character, You
remember what the poet Spenser says of the
1.-THE laurel, need of mighty conquerers."
well is this line applied in the present
instance. The laurel is due to the brows of
one who has won so eminent and enyiable
a renown by successive conquests i'm the
realm of hiStriUnic art. You have takan .
rank in your profession: into one
department. after another you have carried
your triumphs. Through the eye and the ear
you have interpreted to the sympathies of
vast assemblages of men and women the
words of the greatest dramatic writers. What
to our hands in theskeleton form Won
with sinews and flesh, and gave it
! beating heart and warm blood coursing
the veins. To what were more in.
shadows you nave given a bodily
form and presence and a voice that awak-
'ns the deepest emotions. But / dwell no
onger on this topic, which has beer illns- |
for this occasion in verse by a dis |
,inguished poet and man of genius. Re- |
ceive, then, this laurel crown as a token of
What is universally conceded to you-as ym-
Of that regality in your profession to
which you have so nobly risen, and which
so illustriously hold"
MISS CUsHMAN's RESPONSE.
Having been crowned, Miss Cushman re-
olied: "Beggar that 1 AMI am very poor
n thanks, but 1 thank you, Gentlemen:
The heart has no speech-its only language
S a tear or apressure ofthe hand, and words
7ery feebly convey or interpret its emotions.
Yet l would beg you to believe that in the
hree little words L now speak-'I thank
are heart depths which 1 should
all to express better though 1 should use a
other words. / thank you. gem
lemen, for the great honor YOU have offered
o me. THANK you not only for myself but
or my whole profession, to which
trough and by me, you have paid this very
compliment. If the few words I
M o to say SAVIOR of egotism or vain
you will, L am sure, pardon me mas
much as L am here only TO speak of myself.
You would seem to compliment me upon an ,
lonorable life. As look back upon that !
Ife it seems to me that il would have been !
DSOluCely lD1pOSSiDlb lOr me TO nave led
ny other. In this 1 have, perhaps, been :
lercifully helped more than are many of !
ny beautiful sisters in art. i was, by a press :
t circumstances, thrown at an early age !
ITO a profession for which l had received :
o special education or schooling, but :
had already, though SC. young, been :
rought face to face with neces- ity. I found I
fe sadly real, and intensely earnest, and in !
~ ignorance of other ways of study, / re- ,
)lved to a therefrom my text and my Q
be thoroughly in earnest
in earnest in all nv
and actions, whether in L
~ profession or out of 1t, be-
my one single idea. And I honestly
elieve herein lies the secret of my success
/ life. / do not believe that any great sue !,
sss in any art can be achieved without it. Q
say this to the beginners in my profession, q
nd 1 am sure all the associates in my art, r
no nave honored me with their presence !.
q this occasion, will indorse what / say in =
Art is an absolute mistress; she will y
OF be coquetted with or slighted; she re- s
uires the most entire self-devotion, and n
ne repays with grand triumphs. I.
L you-gentlemen of the Arcadian Club T.
and to all who have united to do me honor a