, 1874-03-01
For, thorn, my thorn,
v~brrypu,, s1,,II I've wOr1

WILL kAd G&lN{ %0It 6@~% 1917 AANe~%1
For thorn, my thorn,
ThF crown shall he wnru
BY the King OF Sor1ows alone.
Two OF the fables are girento tell us once more
that distance lends enchantment , tue y1ew,
aud that the friends and satlBfactions OF ones
osn LONE are more than al tho world beside
The first '1Ihe Blue Monntains; Or, The Far, y
to.stes how a man yas lured by the beauty OF
hills 80 remote as to be Ideally charming, which,
when reached, were only common mountains,
rough and cold, but afording prospect OF Other
distant mountains altogether beautiful. OF
course these proved but prosalc and common
,7lace, as did IL others. until he folun the blue
mountains bv which he lived wete tho fairest and
most winning OF all
~ wnEAr-s1ALK; Or, TIE NEAR"
Is very charming. 4 little girl has brought her
father an ear OF wheat, then fsolicked away:
little child, scarce i've years old,
And b1tht "a bird oa bough:
4 I:tlr maiden, bright rs gold,
And pure Is new-1zGn spoV. .
Things seen, TO her, are things unknoTa>
Things near Gre fur away.
TIC n.iglEosing hamlet next our oWn,
As distant m Cathayt
Far things, which fed nor see,
To Aer seem close aud clear.
IN you blue slzy Gods guardian eys-
She feels, and feels 1t near.
What need hath shc our world should b.
So uoudrous wide and far:
Such worlds unknown IRE I'll her Own.
And every world star!
Is III: snlsa vheat-stenai whence it, power to
Ny reauent thoughts from yonder distance vast,
And haug them On lonely ~hesten s7rAw7
It is shat email md honely though 1t b.
THIS car OF wleat 80 hoine2y mud 30 sma13
Because it is near, 50 near to me,
Hath size snoughssand power to cover al
It leans along full twenty JeHgues Of 1ani,
Ara hides them With strsw. tcI TIE purp;e m p nlia
aot1-onE u1ure orb one wheat-6tem n11s.
IN "yA1oR,"
tho beasts are assembled to discuss Affairs Of
state. Tho Ape led off with very much such ;
speech nun would make; and would have
been checrcd roundly It the Lion had not
suddenly put in an appearance, which brought
cluEion. Tho Lion was haying things all dis
own way, when, at an uniucky moment, the
Cock interrupted him with clarion "Cock-a-
dood'edoo,' ~ which quito discounted his Leonine
Majesty. i little confusion followed, during
WHICH the Crow nominated tho Bull for Ring,
and urged his seizure Of power BY arguments
that somehow sound as it they might hare been
used il Washington:
"Tue throne is vacant. Claim and take IT, thoul
Address the people n urged the black-robed bird.
''Or iet me be thine orator. 1 know
The habits and tho huInorB Of the Herd"
Then round tile field he few; to high and low
To choose Bovine King. For scc," he said,
"7Ehat simple tastes, and what q solid head!
"a.ark, too, how great following In bis!
Whose farty follows him where'er he goes.
What co1fldencei and how deserved it isl
On party-streugth weil-balanccd States zepose.
And hoH respectable party this!
Republics only rpm public WOES
To fatlen despots. But can aught surpass
Sound Bourgeois Rule, With belIy1uIs Of gEsss7"
The Parrot, being versatile speaker, claimed
a iarge share Of attention. He had travelled
much, and could throw lu pungent oathB or eiac-
ulations in Spanish, Italian, and French:
"oh, que1es betca sont betcs r ,snd he had been
Eepubncs one and indiyisib1e,
Bnt 1uore than ona. and all divided ending
In paster-strokes Of State whereby they fen
Aud empires that were peace, on war depending;
And constitutions that for shot aud shell
We're constituted marks when past al nenains;
And Le1pi-worlds for deni-reputatious).
"1uE EAGLE AND coupAs1oSs
eets forth tile essential differences between the
true Poet and those who, without his genius,
seek to attain Lis heights: The Eagle lthat ls,
tie poet) tiscourses sublimely, aud with ali
cco;1su so unbounded as to be overpowerine.
He is whole Sahara in hineelf,-a vast soil
tuae of thought and longing the universe has
DO 1T companion for him. After wreaking his
majestic emotions Oh space, he is quite surprised
bot to say shocke1-by profcr of compan-
ionship from Mole who had climbed to the
fonnded hut succeeded in expressing his amaze-
ment. The Mole rises to explain, as follows:
..rardon, my great, my honored f1iandl
To raise myself, thos Life spend
In rising, this. ;" replied the mole,
WAS the ambition Of my soul
"AE thro' the patched and dinty held
Ny way worked With patient toll
IIsteu'd, 1nodestiy conceald, |
But with soul above the SELL '*
HTo birds who Near my aative earth |
Their nests have built. Thy lofty birth
They praised, mud praised thy lefty spirit |
Then to E.ysef said, By merit
"s And painful perseverance, L,
Tho lowly born, may hapy raise
Hr humble self {who knows y as high
As him the world 80 high doth praias
HAFor being born above the world
Tho p>mp Of plunes in air unfurId,
TIE oarase sWift Of pinious vide,
To me were all tuch aids denied.
aput .shat Of that the goals attatn'd
Aud l, the sturdy child If toll,
Whist birth denied, BY toll hayc eaind,
-. Tho born bondEnan to the aol-
"For, to be great, The great condition
L. optne, greet position. l
Aud great Is thine is now rnine own
70 those on whom we both look down.
$50 b. It mine {thne equal now)
With thee to scG What e1ges see.
Fith thee to k11F what eaEies kuoE.
tt eagA fR q fsez With thes I"
yery good speech for . Mole; and it so e1-
,anstod him that he fell asleep soon aftec de-
ivcring it. .,,--, - A.,
threyd sense. fiue fancies, and true poetical e1-
PRECISION which characterize these rabies,