The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-17

W Wout htlk4tc ossf ne when an GeAG, Said the jolly old pedasogue, long ago.
 
 He smoked his pipe in the balmy ar.
 Every night when the sun went down, While the soft wind played in his silver hair Leaving its tenderest kisses there.
 On tae jolly cid pedzgogae jolly old
 clown.
 And feeling the kisses he smiled. and sad.
 Twas glorious world down here below :. Why wait for happiness till we are dead - Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago. He sat at his door one midsummer night Alter the sun had sunk in the west And the lingering beams of golden Ugh,
 Made his kindly o.d face look warm and
 bright
 While the odorsus night wind whispered Gently. gently. he bowed his head:
 There were angels waiting for him know ; He wss sure Of hxppiness iiving or dead
 This jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
 discrimination" and "lntrospec,ioa," two poems on lovers quarrels and the results which follow them. though they both contain strong lines, are forced and artificial. Arnold was never at his best when describing the working of the pas
 
 or genuine sentiment ln poems where the maiden, who has jilted her lover. is com- handed to
 Go, stife your sobs with laughter, let your
 eyes like your heart be dry. And pray when the ball IS over 10 be forgiven
 and die.
 Or where few pages on the rejected lover is described as waking a, midnight to detect in the ringing of fire bell. .'an iron-tongued demons voice laughing your grief to scorn" Love is the theme of The Two Autums." Alone By the Hearth and The Garden of Memo Y :" they are among his f.ifest efforts in this direction, and delicate vein of sadness pervades them all. The Garden of Memory Is the bes; and contains several bits of description that are almos, per feet. An ldyl of October. country idyl, is Lacking in poetc merit; bu, i, IS an exact description of brilliant, many tinted nature ".Nhcn Auiumn. king of the year Is crowned" All For Love" shows in what clear ard tender strains the poet could sing, when he .orgo, his own sorrows m those of others; while m ''The Ballad of Rosai.e." we find a speci- men of what the poet ooa,a have uone had he chosen to sing of bravc knights. the gallan, deeds they done and the beau tiful women they loved. Trailing Ar butts" The Old face." The Gift of Love- "Mignon," "AiiAnie's Answer" "Au Comble. An Autumn Joy,""S~ee, lmpatience.' ''ln Nain," Gone De Profundis,' and Farewell" are all love poems that in purity of conception, beau ty of expression and delicacy and dainti- ness of touch, remind us strongly of the early love lyncs of the poet Aldrich. Ar hold is at his best in his shorter pieces. and no where has he sang of love in sweeter. purer strains than in the pretty little trifie entitled "Au Comole:'
 Hear, of hearts and pearl of pearls
 Dearest of all laughing s,rls.
 Gan make mere language say
 How love thee night and day.
 Can find in head or heart
 Words 10 tell how fair taou art
 suns and moons may never shine
 On a face and form like thine
 Rolling years may never see
 Love more deep than mine for thee.
 have known divincr rest.
 Safely pillowed on thy breast.
 Than could ever haunt.; ngat
 Rosy couch of sybarte
 And no music ever fell Song of bird, or silver Ihel.--.
 Halt 90 s@eetly on my ear
 As tay laughter loud and clear
 Now since love Is life To us
 Let us love forever thus,
 Knowing ihat q brighter day
 Shall behold us loiaed for aye,
 For 10 us 10 love lis gwen
 Here on earth and thence in Heaven. And again in the poem. "A Farewell:" Then IS there nothing God has made That \ Ill not one day fall or fade. -O, poet, Tn mercy tell Ay. love shall reign m these hearts of ours When eyes and lips and wind moved flowers Have known their last farcw eli. For love is purer than dew drops are The winds go never so wide and far, And none may truly tell How, when the close caress is gone 1. nd words are silent. true love lives on Never to say farewell
 In many of his love songs, those which are his best and bearing upon them the stamp of universal human nature, find an echo Tn every true heart, Arnold rises far above Moore and other love poets who have made this world old theme the l subject of their song even in his poorer ones he never falls into sentimentaiism Arnold had a way of thinking and mode of expression that ae peculiarly his own But ten poets have surpassed in beauty of conception and exquisite beauty of expression these lines. entitled ''Jaeoo Ladder: IL Was a prophet slept:
 And in his dream vas, mysteries were |
 seen
 Avapory cloud that seemed to lower and .
 riff,
 Wi,h splendid glimpses of the heaueH be !
 tween
 And s,ih the prophe, slept
 \ ladder from the earth "a r-sianting touched the opening ol the |
 cloud. Thereon the prophet ss~ figures go, With stately steps serenely 10 and fro, Fair angels, h!my winged and tranquil ;
 browed,
 Between the heaven and earth.
 O, prophets dream of Heaven Do unfold your mystery arisht. Was no, that ladder typical of love, That leads us 10 our glorious home above. | And. thr0nrcd With arCeis franautt -hro~ ed II