The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-05

Into the Lanka wsves-is she Destroyer
Has Gunga vanished when her sacred tlues
Slacken against the main? or BrahmapuE
or Indus9 or the FIVE white sister-hoods
Which by the mouth of Indus find escape?
Lo! these live still-though none may know
of them
Each drop and airbell OF their inland course
Existent in the vast dark water-worlu!i
Thus it is taught"
All this is very unsatisfactory reason
ing to a critical mind, but the Saheb
thanks him reverently."
This short passage quoted, though by
no means as bad as we can select, VIII
show some of the peculiarities, which SO
abound, of the writer. There are seven
dash marks, five notes of admiration %
four compound or hyphenated words,
the feet, however. being only broken IN
two places. See his little peace on
"FAC1Es NON OMNIBUS UNA
Not life below the sun
But is precious-unto one!
Not an eye, however dull,
But NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.;
Not heart, howe'er despised,.
But is FASHIONED for and priced.
Fool who laughs at lack of graces,
Each man hath many faces!
This little conceit may be interesting
to the author. but it is certainly hardly
worth publishing to the world as having
claim to poetry. 1t is very faulty for
so short a piece. The poem does not
treat on the motto at all; the last two
lines only do that, and they are very
awkwardIy and ungrammatically ex-
pressed. The fool may laugh at lack"
of graces, yet the preceding lines do not
prove that leach man has a many
faces" it shows that each life, or eye,
or heart has quality that will please at
least one person. When he says:
No eye
But Observation-Disclosures,
He means to some person, not some
where beautiful, but he fails to say so
plainly. The words ..'passioned for"
are unpoetic and inelegant If even
correct. But what can we say OF
Each man hath a many faces?
We sometimes say "many a man, y
| not "many a men" and such like, and
lit could, at least, have been made
correct by saying Every man
| has many faces" though he has
not many, but the author thinks
1t quaint and therefore good.
We would like TO quote largely from
the book, but our space prevents us. A
few examples only must suffice. He
gives us couplet in Italian, and also
an English rendering in rhyme, which
four lines and the caption fill whole
page. The piece is:
oNA DEAD LADY.
"Non puo far Morte il dolce viso amaro,
Nal dolce viso dolce quo far Morte"
Rendered thus:
Death cannot change her face. tender and
IT'S she who changes death, and makes him
| dear"
Short as this piece is, it is not only
incorrect in the translation, not ex-
Ipresslng the thought of the italian poet
as in the lines, but breaks the measure
in the first line, and is very bad, indeed
unbelievable rhyme, and especially in SO
short piece. The literal translation is
thus:
death cannot make sweet face sour.
But sweet face can make death sweet
There is nothing in the Italian about
the face tender and fair" only so far
as they may be found to be in the word
tsweet; and he does not give, in his
English, what death cannot change il
to. The last line is a miserable rendi-
ton. The rhyme, also. of fair" and
"dear" is bad, but only on a par with
"alas" and mess" III another poem
and the words manner" banner ,
s.ran-o'er" and dinner" in little poem
from the Spanish. The above couplet
is given by another hand in letter
spirit and art much better, thus; E
death cannot make sweet face bitter be
But a sweet face can make Death sweet &c
| see."
Wee quote poem entitled
HAyBLooK IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE.
OF course he means on a statue of Have
!. lock. The verses are as follows:
THE foot set firm-the hand upon the hilt-
The warrior gszed-as innocent of fear
Asany maids of shame-which. past this
guilt
And blood and battle, sees the triumph
clear;
stand so In bronzei large to thy leveiled eye
IN the supreme imperial peril dswnins,
"Hoc signo rirces" shines upon the sky;
And calm as one who knows his Masters
= warning. SIS
i Wesuppose in the first stanZa, the 100
set firm, the hand on the hilt. (ro doub
he means of the sword, but doesn'
say SOY, the warrior gaze which
"past the guilt, J" ETC.. sees the triumph
;. telear, stand in bronze, in tn,
tsecond stanza. This is certainly +;
;, jun BILE of things and words. ineIegantly
q depressed and punctuated. not com
tplete in one stanZa but runs into an
, other. as indeed to five stanzas. run *
without period. 1t would be hard t
conceive OF supreme imperial peri
dawning, "as well as Hoe signo cis,ccs shin
: ing upon the sky to an eye and gaze il
bronze. The allusion is, we are aware, Il
the legend OF Constantine, but il is g
fancy badly conceived and as stiffiy OK
pressed. What is "calm as one who
knows his masters warning?" VIVA
master and what warning2 Is it tn,
"levelled eye that is calm, or the firm
I foot, hand on the hilt, warrior gaze, OF
Hoe sioao cinces His half cultured ear
or perhaps his Cockney brogue make.
him make the objectionable rhyme O
.sdawning" with morning" We havs
heard some of our cultivated" friend.
pronounce aw as ar, and ar as awAthu: