The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-03-25

full Corsican lady. But she died
young. and little Gwen went with his
iather in q war vessel, and at the
early age of ten he participated with
his father in the battle of the Nile.
q The ship caught fire during the ac-
ton, and Captain Cassabianca fell
wounded and insensible upon ithe
deck, while the brave boy, upcoI-
scious OF his fathers fate, held his
place at tho battery. The flames
ragged around him; the crew fed one
BY, one, and urged the lad to do the
same, but lie refused and fought on
until the whole vessel was IN flames,
losing bis life IN the tremendous ex-
,plosiOn which followed.
All Of us are familiar with the pret.
ty little Scottish ballad, "Comin' thro''
the Rye" The common idea Of this
cong is that a rye field is meant, but
who ever saw a Scottish lassie walk
ing through ia field of rye, or any
other grain? The, riqer Rye,a at Daily.
in Ayrshire, is meant. Before the
days ofbridges It was no easy matter
10 cross rivers without paying such
penalty as has immortalized Jennie.
In the old ballad. Burns wrote the
ballad and Brown modcrnized 1t. AS
Burns wrote IL, includes the river
plainly enough: .arpz laetn.i .,i
|, 1li"Jenny's a'wet, puir bodie.
Jenny's seldom dryi g.NgtgN r 'it
r. y She drag tt a. her petticoatie
5arj Comm, tfro' the Rye "s9aiHlof DVJ,l
Rypeis spelled with o capital r. The
air is nearly. peniatonic-the only 2
which occurs In the melody being
very characteristics and effective. ii
The following is the priglnof Long
fellows changing the Crane:"
A dozen years ago, shortly after
the marriage of Mr.. Z. b. Aldrich,
Mr.. Longfellow visited the young
couple and took them with them at
their charming little house in Boston.
The supper was laid on very small
table, indeed, but the, poet, always
lvigilant In his search for new ideas,
took the smallnce cfnthe table as o
theme for discussion, and associating
the ideas with an old Acadian custom,
then aud there spun the thread Of his
future poem. ,Ha.a
slsslks.lhe.family inoreases,a ,asaid he to
Aldrich, "the size OF the tabe must be
increased. When, after long years,
the children have grown up to man
hood and womanhood and have left
the fold, the large table will again be
replaced by the small one for the two
old folks who linger at home. Here
you have a picture of life, of the
growth of the family as you are now
entering upon literary career, and
have already written some good es'
says, why not write an essay OH the
subject in hand?"
| Mr.. Aldrich promised to think
about it. The years few by, but no
essay had appeared. Three years ago
the elder and the younger poet met
again. "Havc you thought Of that
theme" asked MIR, Longiellow
(which proposed to you a loas
ltime,ago2p sT haye thought of it's
lhundred times prepiied Mr.. Aldrich
"but can not make anything out O
it," "The subject reverts to me
then" said the venerable poet and III
began to write:
rrneS lights are out and gone are an tho
guests"" susa
4 NAe completedihe, poem and sent !
to Mr.. Bonner, receiving In return
the princely compensation of q thou
sand dollars. In the ensuing winter
, after its publication in the Ledger
the poem was put into the elegan
holiday volume to- which u may b
saidil then became widely known.
1t would be appropriate, in thi
connection, to refer to Bishop Heber
whose other poems, whose learne,
compton lectures and able articles il
1.-THE Quarterly Review, are weighe,
down by d single matciIless mission
ary hymn. 1t came about in thi
wisc;I
, While he was rector at the Episco
, pei church at Hodnet, in Shropshire
, he paid visit to his ,father-in-law "
, DIR. Sliipley, the vicariof Wrexham
Ion the border Of Wales, On the mex
'day, which was Sabbath, DIR. Shiple
4 was to deliver q discourse in behaI
, of the "Society for the Propagation
Of the Gospel in Foreign Lands,
a Knowing his son-in-law's happy gil
IN rapid composition, he said to him
6 "Write something for us to sing .
! The missionary scrgicc to-Inorro'
! morning.r z t 8 s
Short notice that, for a mart I
achieve his Immortality. Heber RI
y tired 10 another part Of the room an
!, in little timc prepared three verse
9 of the popular hymn commencing
"From Greenland's icy mountains"
DR.. Shipley was delighted with I'll
, production, but Heber was not sati
n fed. oyThe sense, is not complete" h
said. III spite Of DR.. Shipley's ear
= est, Heber retired for few momen
!. longer, and then, coming back, rea
the following glorious bugle bla
r which rings like the reyeiile Of Il
a millennial morning.: w AAAl
a swat, watt, 20 winds the story,
And you, ye waters, roll,
/: TIL, like sea OF glory,
tspreads from pole 70 polclr u
II TIL Der our rsnsomed nst5nrs .5aI Z
e Redeeiher, King. Creator,
10 In bliss returns to reign"
o The next morning the people
Wrexham church listened to the fir
g rehearsal Of lyric which has sin,
K been echoed by millions Of yoic
y around the globe.
10 No protane hymn tinker has ev
dared TO lay his bungling finger on
1t, single syllable of those four stanza
which the Holy Spirit novel Heb
to 10 write.
n On that Sabbath morning he caug
I'd the first strain of his own immorll
ity. He "builded better than
knew" He did more to watt d
story of Calvary around the ear
h. than he had preached like Apoll,
b. or had founded board Of mission
II e.Inlthe monthly CONCERTS held
b, the school houses of New Englar
It. In frontier cabins, OIL the decks
hc missionary ships bound to Ceylol
III isle, and in the vast assemblies
v. American boards, Heber's trumI
ig hymn has been sung with swelli
1t voices and gushing tears"
I'd | 3Cowpcf'si great Hymn Of Pro
he dence, too, had a history. He wrt
ng Il after those two sweet devotion