The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-02-14
THE COMING ERA.


OLIVER wENDALL HOLMES
They tell us that tile Muse is soon to fly
hence,
Leaving the bowers Of song that once
were dear,
Her robes bequeathing to her sister, Science,
The groves OF Pindus for the ak to clear.
Optics will claim the wandering eye of fancy
Physics will grasp imagination's wings,
Plain fact exercise fction's necrOmancy,
The workshop hammer where the min
strel sings.
No more with laughter at Thala's frolics
Our eyes shall twinkle till the tears run
down,
But in her place the lectures on hydraulics
Spout forth his watery science to the
town.
No more our foolish passions and affections
The tragic Muse with mimic grief shall try.
But, nobler far, q course of vivisectiOns
Teach what it costs a tortured brute todie.
The unearthed monad, long in buried rocks
Shall tell the secret whence our being
came;
The chemist show us death in hfe's black
Left when the breath 10 longer fans it's
= flame.
Instead of crack-brained poets in their attics
Filling thin volumes with their tlowcry
talk,
There shall be books of wholesome matle-
maticS-
The tutor with his blackboard and his
chalk.
No longer bards with madrigal and sonnet
Shall WOO to moonlight walks the rib
bpned sex
But side by side the beaver and the bonnet
Stroll, calmly pondering Oh some prob
lem's X.
The sober bliss Of serious calculation
Shall mock the trivial joys that fancy
drew,
And oh the rapture Of solved equation,
One selfsalne answer on the lips Of two
So speak in solemn tone our youthful sages
Patient, severe, laborious, slow, exact,
As DER creations protQplasMic pages
They browse and MUNICH the thistle crops
Of fact.
And vet we've sometime found it very
To dream again the scenes that Shaks-
peare drew,
To walk the hillside with the Scottish peas
ant
Among the daisies wet with m orning dew
TO leave awhile the daylight Of the real,
Led by the guidance Of the masters hand
For the strange radiance of the far ideal
"The light that never was on sea Or land. ;
Science may teach our children all she
| knows,
But love will kindle fresh young hearts, It il
certain,
| And June will not forget her blushing rose
And 50, in spite Of all that time is bringing
Treasurers of truth and miracles of art,
Beauty and love will keep the poet singing,
And song still live-the science Of the
| heart.
! -Anantic Monthly.
The fact that Mr.. Judah P. Benja.
min has been employed by the friends
of the Tichborne claimant gives new
interest TO that remarkable case II
this country. The object, now, is te
get the claimant out Of prison. The
claimant was sentenced to two terms
of imprisonment of seven years each
The sentence reads that one Of the
terms is to commence at the conclu
Of the other, thus making the time o
his imprisonment fourteen years. Il
is claimed that the court erred jr
making the terms consecutive instead
of concurrent. This point was deci
ded in the T,reed case. The claiman
has already served one term, and i
the point is sustained that the terms
ought to have been concurrent, thu
claimant will soon be free man
| Mr.. Bepjama not only believes tha
he can secure the claimants release
but also that he can prove him to b'
the rightful heir of the Tichhorn'
property His management Of thi
famous case will he watched will
curious interest ts-Erchange.