New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-06
SO1P-BUBBLES.

From, The So Jdmes's CARTE.
Did Won ever learn how to blow soap bubbles Nof
Then to learn of your children that art invite you.
May they thus for the things you have taught them
to do
Things less brilliant and scarcely more useful II
Art that can boast of the brightest creation.
Sprung from moment of pure inspiration
Shakespeare hath surely created naught falrer,
Raphael never wrought images
10 radiance of Iich-color'd glory than these.
Each Of IL sm, see! O sublime living creature,
ROBBED IN the rivers lakes, mountains, and seas
OF that world like dream borne aloft on the CLEAN
Of the mirror it holds up 20 nature
See them flash, see them rise lhappy tnngsD In the
SKIES
Each perfect unblemisht beatified sphere
Whose soul is the bright subtle breath Of delight
That was breathed by an infant-a sigh III q tear!
In this perfect sufusion or body with soul
Sad Creation avOws all attempts to improve
On HES hrst happy thought have but lard on the
And goes back to globule. How finely they move
LII their brilliance and Freedom tar planets of
Without that encumbring contrivance of OURS
All the nerves and the muscles, that make up and
BY their pains and fatQues our self forfeited powers
Here doth Nature return with motherly pride
10 her frst-born PrOtastes and, freed from all
trouble,
Finds her earliest thought and last word REALIZED
BY q breath In bubble,
Such lie being perfect, the vulgar find in it
LlfcS worst iDlpertecCl0n. Ii lasts but minute.
What matterf That minute is ALL
Neither short nor yet long, but complete. Soon as
Ali full grown. and full bowu from its small paper
Scars each bnoyant and beautiful ball.
AS perfect a. Palas from Jupitcrs BRAIN;
A being all eye; and that eve, all inspection;
Which, embracing the world, reproduces again
All the world 1t embraced; and whose language in
vain
Our Philosophy Standardization.
10 see all, and be ALL and show all. without
The least need OF moments reflection about
What Is thus In q moment reitectedl .
Nor requiring. men do, LIES tedium and trouble
10 learn that all life is, AT best but hubble
Lies delight, soon as born. by deaths rapture To-
And 10 burst with bliss unexpected!
Anaxagoras, here ~ thy Nous no illusion;
And your Aunc STAINS. Sc0astIcs ~ here
Fchte hero thy Non ego and Ego in fnsior
UncOnfused Tor the hrSt time appear!
Wherefore draw near and give ear.
And. ere these bubbles burst,
Learn from them all that each
Philosopher can teach
BE he the last or lirSt;-
That all the worlds material franc
Is but an appaIilon, mere name
For their OTn line SENSATIONS;
A bubble universe that cannot claim
Pace in ITS creations.
This world, waich hath no being of its own.
Lives for moment IN their lives alone:
A breath can make it. and breath dispcrsa
The universe exists 10 be reflected
In Il soap-bubble that result effected,
Crack no more bubble. no more uniyel51I
Meauwl!ilc what lucid views
Of life dotI eacn present.
Clothing III glorious hues
HIS CLASSY clement
Each states his case without dispute,
Brief, catcgOrIc, absolute,
And then-gOOd-byeI
Another takes his place,
Aud states Ills case,
And wait, more than he for a reply
Adt"re SAITH one, d6iors rdc0um"
Aud crack! Abhorr'd not, the vacuun's there
COgiiO.' quOth another - ergo sUt.'
Crack! there goes COgfO and Sum must fare
Without al ETgO. One. ike Plate, signs
uIafY Truth W And crack un rpDlV hA
tarried.
Another" OnRia mCcum porter cries.
Crack! NothIugS lett - carry or TO he carried.
One asks ~ hdt knoW / = Crack! Farewell Nom
One laughs Perhaps ~ and crack, There's Iabelas
aOae
- CanLls rdnitatam" Crack, again.
Aud in Il moment goodbye solomon.
Nil dimHGJi.p Crack and n0ught remains
To be surprised at. to feel surprise.
Was 1t worth the pains
Crack ard with self that's deau Self-kDowledge
dies
Sgb5iaace is naturally infinite"
Crack 10 SpinuZI a substantial shock
An kaOWiedge is rtBth6Tddce"-Crack!a and quite
Unknown Is Hobbs ANA unIemembered Locke.
" UiHd IL Il series OT Impressions. MAY,
" Mind Is sensation ,i,-ifGBsteyrd.'Crack crack!
The breath. that Iiunes impressions blows away,
Not one sensation leaves OF COIdIllac.
"Crash Wt the igfomOuS!" ana crack! VOltaire
Coapses. Rousseau rises on his track:
But soon the Social Contract. never stable,
DissOlves; and LieOntZ finds place to spare.
&" Ukdftrr is. is therefore redsohGbie'
Crack For that reason he hath ceased to be.
Which Is u reason. too 10 end this table.
What ls it all abont' - you ask of met
IuauIsitiye, and curious slave OF doubt.
FIst tell lie What are you, yourself, about
OWEN MEREDITH.