National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-20
THE INsp1RAr1oN OF THE SEA.
Lovers and Ocean Poery-congress Hau ana
Col Cake.

their closing steps up TO the portals Oh the tomo
with less OF apprehension In their meeting with
Him who ia the source and totality oflove. ION
his Mistress Drowned" the Rev. Mr.. Sprat, once
bishop Of Rochester, appealed In this way to the
''swset stream"
Is fresh compared 70 mine" =.
.'6o on, sweet stream. and henceforth rest
No more than dot my troubled breast"
George Keate, in his sonnet to LADY Going to
often quoted
''stin constant to Its faithful moon.''
In the poem he refers to the fable Of Venus ris-
ing from the sea, and adds moral so entirely ap-
propriate to the ladies Of this day and season
that cannot refrain from quoting 1t entire:
Would you goddess reign Ger sT4
Clear be 1t as this azure deep.
Which no capriciUus passion knows,
R RSs only .dys sSSs and Tat SHi{ soEs
Still constant to its faithful moon,
whose SSpIST Sss with pride Il swels,
Needless Of every change of weather
That waits straw, or coxcomb feather,
And unobsersed are washed away.
The modest pearl delights to rest,
Is there with partial bounty sown.
Each sparkling charm, each bl1shing grace;
And in that seat Of Beauty IiVei
P PinS g moral Keep before your eyes; -
venture to thi1k that is about the best sermon
young lady at the seaside could possibly have.
always thanked Keste for writingit
Lovers have found many q pretty conceit In
shells, and this one comes back to me gently as
note of music, but I cannot think of the authors
name:
You stopped and picked wreathed shell,
Beside the shining sea;
This little shell, when am gone,
kissed your hands upon the sands,
For You were kind to me!''
Our beautiful Whittier, in his splendid poem,
what the Voice said, )" has this verse:
Thou hast seen two streamlets gushing
From one fountain, clear and free,
sea Sy MiSs for yt ny channels
"of Loving at First Sight," old Edmund Wal.
Ter writes:
mot caring to observe the wind,
Or the new sea explore,
Already pehold i It'll The r shSr lar Oehihd
Oliver Wendell Holmes, rich as he is in fancy.
hardly ever wrote prettier thing than "The
Philosopher to his Love-" and here is one verse:
Bound in the subtle mOonbeam s chain,
And love and hope do not obey
which lights and lends the tide it charms
To deaths dark cave and icy arms,
That poet most opulent In imagination, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, writes this imprisoned verse on
Loves Philosophy"
s'See the mountains kiss high heaven,
No sister flower would be forgiven
III disdained its brother;
And the sunlisht clasps the earth,
What are all those kissings worth
If thou kiss not me.n
The same great poet, writing ITO the Queen Of
My Heart" sings:
wilt thou roam with me
To the restless sea,
And Hnger upon the steep,
Bow they toss and roar and leap?
''Those boiling waves,
And the storm that raves
At night Ger their foaming crest,
That from earliest life
The passions have waged in my breast,i'
Sir Francis Kinsston, q most passionate lover,
IN bis appeal. "Do not Conceal thy Radiant
Eyes," has this verse:
800 not conceal nor yet eclipse
Thy Pesrly teeth with coral lips,
Gems which from thee have all their WORTH
despairing lover, referring to banIshed hopes
and happy SMILES laments:
Gan lost forever more:
Like ships that have sailed for sunny isles,
But never come to shore!''
Every true scholar and poet loves to inger in the
atmosphere Of Robert Gilillan. He once wrote
a poem entitled "Oh! Take Me to Yon Sunny
Isle" and in it the following exquisite verse ap-
pears:
III Wanutr Dy the silent snOref or cumD the rocky
And list to ocean murmuring the music of the
deep:
But when the son moon lights the waves in even
ing's silver glow,
Shall Mary meet me meath IFS IightG Ali no,
no, no!n
But even in recollections like these we may lin.
ger too long, for life is life at Congress Hail. and
every moment Of it affords something new. To-
day everything is particularly bright and cheer
full. The circle Of friendship and new acquain-
lance has been greatly enlarged by hundreds of
new arrivals, and with each new DRAFT upon his
resources, Colonel Cake rises equal to the emer-
gency, and seems more openhsnded, generous and
efficient than before. His heart is as big as his
capacity for keeping hotel, and for this reason;
1t is hardly any wonder that guests are focking
in from all points Of the compass, and that in
wealth and beauty and sumptuous living, Con.
gress Hall resembles the Court of Solomon 1
have taken the most Of our Washington friends
by the hand to-day, and through me they one and
all send back their love and urge you to join them
soon.
Always yours, FATHER TINE