Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-02-19
Songs of theSoul.

in the course of q lawsuit between Mrs.
Zelda Seguin, the singer, and the man.
ager of tue Emma Abbott Opera Com
pany. Edward Seguin, her husband,
was in bad health, and his once brilli-
ant abilities as a singer and actor were
waning fast. Mrs. Seguin was inform
ed that his salary was to be reduced
SO a week. knowing that he was
sensitive on the subject of his deterio-
ration as Il performer, she induced the
own pay and leave his unaltered. This
was done. The controversy arose when,
after his death. she claimed full salary
again.
II YOU should show ne a rose
Painting beneath the azure.
Why am / then more morose.
II you should show me a rose,
Then ! think Of her forehead pure.
When you show me a star in the skies,
Why do the tears like a haze.
Throw their Veil over my eyes:
When YOU show me a star IN the skies
thlnk OF happier days.
swallow.
Why does my heart within me sink:
AS with longing eyes its flight follow
When you show me that happy swallow,
Ofmy own exile l think.
NATURES SYMPATHY,
The senses are sharpened by grief
Alas, my earring Is gone
And l feel as though nature for my relief,
y plying face put on
It Gems that the birds in their nest
Quarrel not quite so loud:
That | trouble the flowers with a strange I'M
rest.
And am pitied beyond the cloud.
The linnet is half ashamed.
ola song 80 persistently gay,
Ard the star feels Itself 10 he blamed
shining onUn that tranquil way.
For the l:nnet and star recall
Her whom l So dearly love,
~ the song OF the bird | hear her voice,
See her eyes in the star above.
SELF-sACRIFICE.
Poet, too quickly charmed, how will ii be
fthis dear Child an adverse fate denies,
or If that heart which doth thy world com.
prise,
Can Lever learn to thrill with-love for thee:
.Ah, well, her eyss have rescued me
From that h%oul-weariness which good de
Quickenin. the love that cheers and puri-
To bless and love her still good cause l see.
Happy or DO, faithful | snail emain,
Ard since it comes from her III love pain,
Which from remorse and shame my soul
doth save.
Maiden. whose glanees have subdued my
years,
Make me TO weep and / will bless my tears;
Make Inc to die ana ! will bless tho grave.
An affecting incident is told by the
poet Cowper in his autobiography.
When he was a child, he was sent
from home to a large public school.
Being a boy of slight and delicate frame
and of Remarkably sensitive disposition,
he suffered much from the rude tyran-
ny Of the older boys. Through one
boy in PARTICULAR, who, he said, had
"singied him out as a proper object on
which to exercise the cruelty Of his
TEMPER he suffered unspeakable tor
lures.
1t was not alone the physical torture
Of blows and kicks, though this wa.
great t the frail child, but the excru-
eating agony suffered by the sensitive
spirit subjected TO such humiliation
At last, II day. when he was sitting
alone on a bench in the schoolroom, il
a most unhappy frame OF mind, unable
to refrain from weeping at recollection
of past suffering and dread of torture!
70 come, the words Of the Psalms.
flashed through his mind II will no
fear what man can do unto me-" H,
says, Il applied this to my own case
with a degree Of trust and confidenc,
in God that would have been 40 dis
grace to a Ituch Elcre experienced
Christian. christianity | perceived il
myself a iriskness Of spirits and
cheerfulncss which | had never befor,
experienced, and took several PAGES u
and down tie with joyful alacri
ty-hi> gift Ia whom | trusted
This thought gave the little fello:
strength to meet his tor aentor Wit
more courage after this. an very sool
after. the cruelty of the older boy, con
iig 70 the knowledge OF his t. acher>
he was expelled, and the Younger boy