The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-25

is thoroughly English, was written during
his first visit to Greece. This illustrates
that feature in his life, which was to be
always of the contrary order.
BYRoN's WIFE.
For 3 months he endured wedlock, but
after that his condition became what is vul-
carly called "a grass widower," for his wife
abandoned him as an act of self-defense.
1t is evident that she was the only woman
that ever mastered him. Perhaps one of
his greatest annoyances was the fact that
the severest cbeckmate he ever received
was inflicted by a woman. In this point
his marriage resembles that of Aaron Burr
and Madame Jumel. Burr was solely in
quest of wealth, and, when the miserable
old woman discovered it, she turned him
out OF doors. Byron married the heiress,
Miss Milbankc, solely to obtain her estate.
She soon learned his true character, and
decided on her course. She was calm
and resolute person, whose Judgment told
her to abandon man who at p was the
slave of all the vices of the age. Taking
her babe she went on a visit to her father,
and, having arrived thther, she notified
her husband that they were never to meet
again. Her decision of character was but
a part of her general excellence, which was
tested by the course of long life To be
married, to become n father, and to be
abandoned within 10 months, made Byron
feel that he had reached the place 'where
the laugh comes in" This was literally
true Society laughed to see how wise
woman had utterly foled the chief rake of
London. To escape this the poet i'm
mediately went abroad, sworc hate against
his native land, and began TO praise the
Yankees for beating the English on the sea.
He mentions his qualification on learning
that "a copy Of his poems had been seen at
hotel in Albqay near Washington.
His geography was nearly as correct as his
morals.
GOING DOWN.
Bad as he might have previously been,
the poets course now became more defiant
+ of external morals. Immediately on his
wife's departure he arranged to go to Italy.
where there could be no such restraint as
public opinion. He was then 2o and was
already feeling worn out by proflicacy, yet
he plunges into it afresh, even before he
reaches the sunny lard. A year from the
time his wife left him he was the father of
a daughter born in Switzerland. This child
became his favorite allegro and died before
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he made his residence his intrigues were con-
spicuous. He became more addicted than
ever to wine and more of his poetry was
written under stimulants. The society OF
the Italian gentry, whose corruption he de-
scribes with such undisguised delight, was
SO congenial that he remained there until
he was utterly satiated. Every pleasure
had been tasted unit it cloyed and sickened
him. Seldom has any man been SO thor
cughly palled in every appetite. Such a
condition as this was the inspiration OF Don
Juan, which he began at 80, and this, which
was his last poem, was published anony-
mousy, Had his lie been prolonged it is
probable that the same turn of mind would
have led him to write obscene literature.
When il was reported that he had hired a
villa at Genoa the wits of that city ex-
claimed, THE devil has again entered
Paradise This, however, was not his
purpose. He was weary Of Italian de-
hatchery, for time at least, and sought q
fresh stimulus in military life.
AN OLD MAN.
The stated sybarite left Italy for Greece
, worn out and in premature age. Indeed
{ this rapid progress in vice had for some
; years made him feel like an old man. This
idea he brought out in Manfred with an al
/ most prophetic foresight:
"Look on mel there Il an order
! or mortalS on the earth who do become
Old In their youth. and die ere middle age
Without the violence OF warlke death.
Some perishing OF pleasure" etc.
The year before he died he wrote thus to
the countess of Blessington, the italics be-
, ing his own:
az am ashes where once was lire,
7 And the bard In my bosom Is Dead
And my heart is as gray as my head"
"My life is not dated by years,
I There are moments which act as plough
And there is not a iurrow appears
But is deep on my soul as my brow"
, The poets life in Greece was nine un
interesting months, and then death termin
ated his career, which included little more
than Sc years. His end was a complete
4 iulfllment of the words of Manfred, for hi
died "ere middle age, without the violence
!, of warlike disappointing of pleasure.
a HOW MEN SHOULD LIVE.
f Our own Bryant is just seven year
l. younger than Byron would have been haC
9 he lived to the present time, and yet o
:. these two men the latter was naturally
q much the stronger. Bryant, however, il
Il in active service as editor and poet, besld
% the publication of hi, national work
y Longtellow in his 'Morituri Salutamus
. has not only told us what can be done il
y old age. but has illustrated it in this, whicl
h many think his best poem. Speaking o
n Longfellow, leads me to say that he ha
"a been designated to receive contribution
a. for the "Byron statue and | am sorry t
10 see him in such service. | am sure he can
"a not have referred to Byron in his oft quote
lines concerning ''lves Of great men, etc.
and although il would be a good thing I
II. give some stone cutter job, there ar
IN some others full as deserving of statue u
e. the psramour of Guiccioli and author G
n Don Juan. Speaking of how men ougf
.s to live, here is TEN Rocker, foreman {
II the Tribune, who has just been presente
n with a gold-headed cane. Tom is not a
IN old man in feelings, and hardly in looks
~ His form is erect, and those large blac
is eyes arc as brilliant as ever, but he Ia
is seen many more years than Byron an
ca much better ones also. Ever since tn
70 Tribune started, which was 81 years III
no 10th of last April Tom Rocker has bee
is in its service, and during the greater par
IA of this time he has been its foreman. Ho'
pd many changes has he seen, and what a
se experience in the craft can he narrate?
~ think if he were to take the lecture plat
or form he would draw admirably, but this
"a out of the question. He has been too Ion
"A a denizen of Printing House square, an
TO would not lose day in the composin
AL room for any such trifle as lecture. To'
I'd Rocker is an enthusiast in his art, and he
X done his share to build up the reputatio
he of the Tribune, and also that of the Graf
,al He is now the veteran of Printing Hou,
ed square, and meme of its crowd would
ruore missed than he by
Tnp HEpMIT IN NEW YORK.