Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-10

BY willing and discerning souls was glory.
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take II much 10 heart
That other people are worse on than L.
ease my soul with praying Tor them ALL
cannot sing
My voice is hoarse and Oft think my prayers
Are foolish, feeble things for Christ Is good
Whether pray or not, -the Virgins heart
Il kinder far than mine and then stop
And feel ! can do pauRht towards helping mon,
TIL out II comes, like tears that will not hold,
And must pray again for all the world.
There is no plot, nor even n story In the
poem, just raro portrait of one happy IN
having that goodness with contentmenl
which is great gain; one
Who surely made link
'Twixt faulty folk and God by loving both.
We must deny ourselves tho unfolding Of
the seven beauties Of "Armgart," the ecstat
ic triumph, the tragic misfortune, the rubel-
lion, bent ut last TO anguished submission
SO rising into the browning truth: He that
lOseth his life shall save It.
Tho other poems OF tho book are in ten.
derer spirit.
''lIow Lisa loved the King" is too exquisite
to be described briefly without sacriege, and
there Is little use IN naming the rest wher
unable to linger for description.
But here is now scrap from brother
and Sisters"
| cannot choose but think upon the time
When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightcst thrill from the boes swinging chime,
Because the so near the other Is.
/ he'd him wlso and whom he talked 10 inc
OF snakes and Birds and which God loved the best,
! thought his knowledge marked the boundary
Where mon grew blind, though angels know the rest
His years with Others must tie swceter DO
For those brief days he spent in loving mo-
Doubtless the extracts we have made dc
not fairly represent the artistic and poctica
beauties of the volume, but however note
worthy the excellencics and difficulties ol
George Eliot's style the intellectual and NOR
al elements always predominant in her writ
lngs aud claim attention.
Generous, pure, exalted, they are an ines
Unable antidotc for the mean seliishness Of
the day, yet seem cold and almost sad to one
accustomed to study the same noble senti
monts in union with the glowing personal
love of Christ. We think il is no injustice
to the faith of the writer 10 suggest this want
in quoting from tho last poem of the book
1t is only saying that Christianity is more di.
vine than Positivcness.
may join the choir invisible
or those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence live
In pulses stirred " generosity,
In deeds Of daring reetituds, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with SELF
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars
And with their mild persistence urge mems search
To Vaster issues.
This is life TO como
Which martyred men have made more glorious
For us who strive TO follow. May reach
That purest heaven, be to other souls
The cup Of strength in some great agony,
Enkndle generous ardor, feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty
Be tho sweet presence Of good difiused,
Aud in diffusion more intense.
| SO shall join the choir invisible
| Whose music Is the gladnoss OF the world.
The Legend Of Jubal and other Poems, by Georg
Z liot. Boston J. r. 0sgOod Co.