The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-03-13
For .hs Herald.
BOOIS5.
ny QUITS.

Ny books ar, my trisnI1. The COM
panions, the comrades who never forsake
me, friends without whom | should b.
poor ind~sd Dear, dGm6 friends. whose
hands may never clasp, whose cnsek |
NAV never touch, whose lips may never
kiss, who speak to ne clty through Iae
eye. With black cah.li.iic ,rgn-. yet it l.
soul speaking 10 soul. Each hook sn-
JOY is to me = living thing something
which can never die, something immortal
~ a part of that living, thinking thing
within Us. which links Us to the Deity.
Dear, dumb iriends-bOdiess souls
''embalmed in printers ink"-they bring
TO my lonely tire-iie fIn aud wit, which
la-hea Ike s~ord-blaGrs in the sun. and
satire keen AZ Damascus steel. They
bring me too. the grand thoughts of some
master minds under which my blood leaps
as to clarions thrill, and NV tagging
siuews are braceI unth forget the
fdintness under which was ready to
die AID fall into step aud march onward
with strength renewed.
Sometimes they come TO me with songs
songs their dumo lips may never sing
but they weave th,mse YES into melody
IN my brain. sweet So vrsper chimes.
ringing in, ringing out, now loud, now
low, now soft A. angel chants, juSI
caught family floating down when 1.-THE
gates were lett ajsr' that make
me forget my burien and my WEAKNESS
aui the eejing feet stumbling on.
At times they tell me stories of other
lIves-livrs 80 pure, 81 noble, that their
story lifts me up sni help me heaven
ward. like sermon warmed from a
heart filed with Gods love, and they
take me cut where 1.-THE splendcr falls on
castle VALE, aud snowy submits old in
story" or dow u by the sea Ito watch the
stately ships come in" out upon the
broomy braes and the blue bre' ~ lochs
Of "yuir au,d Scotland" down through
the sunay vineyards Of France. and
across the. Pyrenees among the dim
Csthedrsls of Spain.
Rare magicixns are these friends of
mine Wiih the fatter of leaf | am
drifting in the bsy OF Naples" floating
in black gondols down the Grand
canal Of stately old Venice, or stsndIng
in the sncient palace Of her Doses
Sightseeing in Rome, or pelring with
Confetti, the gay reveller in the carnival
Wandering through Athens, or lounging
through the bszars of many-mssqued
lettering among the
lotus blossoms down the slow, smooth
Nile, or gailoping donkeys out to the
Pyramids; | sm with Livingstone and
Stanley in the heart of equatorial Africa,
anon climbing the 'B4vsrisn Alps. or
looking down upon the blue GLACIERS OF
Switzerland. in the salt mines OF Prussia
with their wonderful underground CaIhe-
drsl with its pillars aud portico., It's
and its chancel of salt, in
the Winter Palace at St Petersburg. or
the midnight sun from the
frozen caps of northernmost Norway,
rolling tea leaves in many-p-Opled China
OF gazing upon the wonderful porcelain
tower, another Autter OF the leaf Snd |
am in the diamond fields of Australia,
or slowly journeyins across the endless
plains in the great wagons of the
"bGrs," gslloping over the Pampas OF
South America, o. stesming up the
broad Amazon, banked with the lush, !
luXuriance of the gorgeous green of III
tropics. or dreaming in the paradise OF
"purp!e isles tapped .by elysian seas
o, rare magicIsns are these friends of
dear. dumb friends, whom |
would not give up for kingdom, who. il
they ever forsake me. will leave he
poorer than the poorest bessaE.
All honor TO the inventor OF books, the
invention of embalmIng minds in prIn-
ter's ink" that you and l may have
them always with us
LEBANON, February, 1878.