The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-14
FACTS AND FANCIES.

FACTS AND FANCIES.
| Morality without religion is only
kind of dead reckoning-an endeavor to
] find our place on a cloudy sea by measur-
ing the distance we have run, but Win
out any observation OF the heavenly
bodies.-LOHgtetloU.
The impressions on the Imagination
make the great days of life; the book,
! the landscape, or the personality winch
| did not stav on the surface of the eye or
! ear, but penetrated to the inward sense,
agitates us and is not forgotten.
The test or measure Of poetic genius
Is the power to read the poetryoi affairs
! to fuse the circumstance of to-day; not
| to use ScOtt's antique superstltlons, or
! Shakespeare :, hut to conyer those OF the
nineteenth century and OF the existing
nations into universal symbols.
The act Of Imagination is ever at
! tended by pure delight. 1T lniuscs
| certain volatility and intoxicatlon INTO
all nature. 1t has flute which sets the
atoms of our frame in dance. Our IN
! determinate size is a delicious secret,
which it reveals to US.
! GREEN GRASS UNDER THE SNOW
| The work of the sun is slow,
But as sure as Heaven We know;
SO wc'll not forget
When the skies are wet,
There's green grass under the snow.
When the winds Of winter blow,
Wailing like voice Of woe,
There are April showers,
And buds aud flowers,
And green grass under the snow.
We find that it's ever so
In this lifes uneven flow;
We're only to wait,
I'm the face Df fate.
For green grass under the snow.
Events of things are only the fulfill
ment Of the prediction of the faculties.
Better men saw heavens and earths saw
noble instruments Of noble souls. We
see railroad. mills, and banks, and we
pity the poverty of these dreaming Bud-
dhists.
Outside of the nursery the begin
ming of liteTaturcs is the prayers of the
peop,e. and they are always hymns,
poettr-thc mind allowing itself range,
and Herewith is ever a corresponding
freedom in the style, which becomes
lyrical.
"Zachariah." said Mrs. Chandler
ss,ybot smcU is that2" Gloves" "But
that other smeIIg" "Allspice." "But
isn't there anothcf?' "Hes--appIes'
"And Just one more E? "claer' my
dear" "Well, Zachariah,' said shc' II
you'd drink little brandy now YOU'D
make a good mincc pie
\ DREAM WI1lus s nWrNi.--
OF surf i-tuInlnUtgd thDrc,
And hold within my hand
Grains ni the golden sand;
How few, y'i how they creep
Through my 6uror- iy the deepI
Oh God can / not =rasp
Them with tighter clasp
oh God en- / not save
One from tn. pitilcss vaFc'
J. an that see or scgm
-Edgar 4. Poe.
In poetrv we say we require the
miracle. The bee flies among the flow
ers and gets mint and mauoram, ana
generates a new product which u not
mint and marioram, but honey. Inc
chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to
Weld a new product, which is not these,
but water: and the poet listens to CON
ycr-ation and bcholds all objects in ma
turc to give back not them, but new
and transccndcnt whole
-Imagination is ccntral fancy IS
superficial. Fancy relates TO suTiace, IN
which q great part of life lies. The lover
is rightly said to fancy the LAIR, eyes,
cor1plexion of the maid. Fancy Is
wiiii;.l. imagination Il spontaneous act
fancy. a play as with dolls and puppets
which we choose to call men and women;
imaoination and affirming of real rcia-
tion between Il thought and some mate
rial fact. Fancy amuscsi Imagination
expcnds and cXalts us.
A rhymer in .cribncrs thus relates
the story of butcher who had large
brain and loved little children
It was a grrc-omc butcher
With cuunteuJucc vgturninci
He stood nj the door oi his little shop
IL was the hour Of nine
The children 6. ing by to school
Looked i'm at the open door
Thev loved 90 see In" yusag'-inachine
md heaI its awful r"a..
The butcher nc looked ont and in,
Then horribly he sworo, ,,,
Next vawncd, then, smiling, DE h'Sed DIS '""P'
Duotb he: "Ilic'g awful huirl
",yow here's all these dear h,ii" children
Some Of 'em rzight live 20 bc sixty -
Why shouldn't save 'em 'hc u li"unig, !" ""'''
An chop 'cm mp -lipIcriy ''tlsiyF
$50 he winkeI TO the children ard -bcckoned them
go, don't yes want some candy
Put We see ven have 90 come into the shop,
For Out here IL isn't handy
He 'ticcd them into the little shop,
The machine went round and round
And when those poor babes came oui Hshh
They fetched ten cents q Pphlh'
Shadows please US as still finer
rhymes. Architecture gives the Hko
pleasure by the repetition OF equal parts
in a colonnadc in row OF wlndoWs, OF
in wings; gardens by the symmet1c CON
trasts Of the beds and walks. In society,"
YOU have this figure in q bridal omPiuly,
where a choir of whitc-robcd maidena
gives the charm of living statues; III
funeral procession, where all wear black
=. .. .yS~;,,.pf Of splIipr- in uniform.