The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-11-28

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wit against the gentler sex. He was determined
to illustrate heroic life without what he then re-
gaided as the weakness for woman's love. The
first efforts of his pen were to mock at amorous
emotion, and he sc%ornfully prayed the fancied god
of love to keep out of his way. And thus in his
own words be derided tender sentiment.
mao me buscays, amor l~igeyro,' &c. Do not
seek me, oh, light love- And then he sings on
in a playful madrigal.
"Prhhee Cupid, hence-de,ist-
Why should i increase the list
OF boys, whose sole delight consist
In kissing, and in being kissed
Then in other verses he derIsively speaks of
starlight eyes, and heaving SHOWS
Lips young rivals Of the rose"
Which he considered as only fit TO bind men in an
enslaving w~itchery; but he says he will be free -
"since on every side I see
There are fools enough without me" QO)
LOVE IN THE SANCTUARY.
But the vengeance of love was near at hand.
Our scornful hero had kept his fancy free for
many a day, amid the tasteful society of a then
proud prosperous and gay city. He had care
lessly frequented the fashionable sarao, the paseo
and the promenade, and though exposed TO the
beaming fires of tender gazing, dangerous eyes,
vet he remained cool, critical, skepticaI and un-
scathed. Perhaps the vanity of his age made
him deem himself an object to be sought, and one
whose condescending favor must not be too lightly
accorded, for he was in the full hedged period of
the conceit of youth. But soon he was to watch
LremDllD1 IOE Il glance OF LenQer favor. a QaY
came, when seeking some change of scene and
change of interest, he earelessly sanntered into a
church, into the church of "Christ's Wounds"
and there he received a wound, which left an ever
lasting scar upon bis heart that was unhealed and
bleeding even until its last pulse beat upon the
earth.
THE POWER OF LOVE IN a PURE SOUL.
And what wounded hin? What touched and
pierced his soul? Was it some trumpet voice
Of apostolic power? All, no it was through his
eyes and not his ears that he received the wound.
And what did he see? A noble brow of purest
white, crowned by light tinted nut brown braids
of hair, arching over tender gazing eyes, and a
face of unutterable fairness and sweetness-which
with its glory of perfect maidenhood blotted out
all other faces from the eyes and soul of our care
less worshipper. This he saw.-and the vision
all possessed and enraptured him and in that
hour,-nay in a moment changed, like as If by n
light and voice from heaven, his whole being.
The perfect chastity of his life, caused this sudden
revelation Of a type Of womanly lnveliness in
harmony with the afinities of his soul, to become
an overwhelming power. Only the pure in heart
can so surrender heart for heart, and be both
humbled and exalted in the presence of perfect
love. This pure passion which took such swift,
entire, and unlocked for possession of the soul of
our. poet for his fate of love came upon him
like a stroke of lightning in a clear day-dignified
his nature, intensified his soul, gave purpose to
his life and caused him, as though touched by
an angelic hand with celestial fire, to be trans
formed in a moment from a careless youth Into a
heroic man.
CATERINA DE AYTAnE
Was the revealer of this new gospel to the soul
of Camoens. She was the daughter of an aristo-
cratic house, and she was one of the selected no.
BILE maidens who filled the ranks of honor in the
Palace at Lisbon. Her proud brother Antonio
was the chief favOrite of the royal Emmanuel,
and Of John the heir to the throne of Portugal.
She was the hope and heiress of her family, and
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peerless worth inspires. And so it was, that the
etiquette of a punctilious court and the severity
of a proud old line, kept this young lady secluded,
and permitted her only to alternate between the
s%anctities Of her chamber and her church-and she
with the court maidens frequented the church of
"Christ's Wounds" There she sat with other
noble daughters in elevated and clustered dignity,
and was only partially seen by the worshiping
multitude. But there was enough revealed of
fair young Caterina, to make of her an object of
devotion to one who kLelt on the marble aisle be-
low. And though the playful and modest fan
concealed blushing checks and rosea.e lips from
too bold q gaze, yet enough was seen of the
sweetly crowned brow and the tender eyes to
make our poet feel, and to be most happy that he
felt, the sweetness and the power of perfect loves
holy thrall.
LOVE AND RELIGION.
Love is naturally akin to devotion and our
once proud, fastidious and critical cavalier became
q constant worshiper before the affairs of
80 Christ's Wounds Some have Knocked at this,
Ql) and sneer at a heavenly aspiration that
arises from an earthly emotion. They would
have Divine Love only taught by the voices of
grim watchmen on the towers of Zion. But no
one can doubt, who has studied the life of
Camoens, that he, throughout n long, sad and
hard battling career, maintained in spite of some
slips of weakness and weariness of soul, a lively
belief, like unto the best faith of his time and
creed, in a loving Savior and in a Redemption
which was twin born in his soul along with
human love and this faith and hope in an i'm
mortal part hereafter was tho guiding light of a
long and stormy life unto its last days. The Poet
of Lusitania, like the heroes he celebrates, like
the Illustrious Henry and De Cana, was as firm
and enthusiastic in his faith, as he was impas-
stoned in bis love; because he like them having
preserved the perfect purity of a continent soul,
could offer a shrine in his heart fitted for the
hottest conservation of love and for the reception
of a faith in a higher life, which would lead him
like them to seek the throne of his God before he
would that of his king (l2).
THE ASPIRATIONS OF a BETTER LIFE.
Our poet now became an earnest, and it NAV
be said a religious man, and he maintained a fer
vent spirit of faith throughout all his days.
And will any one cavil at the influence that gave
him better hopes of a future life? Shall the
words of books and the teaching of men like
ourselves be the only proper inspiration for a hope
of a blessed Immortality? Or shall not other
things teach us? Shall not the beauty and peace
of a noble scene of earth lead us onward? And
shall not the hGrmonies OF the heavens, the