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

1.-The lawr of the Lawd" for 1.-THE law of
the Lord" but we are unprepared to see
a poet. or indeed scholar, rhyme so
imperfectly. But the next stanza:
Stand thou in bronze Stand What thou
vert q rock
Drove wave on wave-dashed Highland
from ire shock
Fell back in shattered foam; thyself un-
"a shaking.
Now, the poet told us that the foot,
hand and gaze, stand in bronze, but for
fear they should not continue to stand,
he commands Havelock himself
twice to stand. and then he
is sure if he does, they will. But the
figure that Havelock is rock
should have quieted his fears that they
and he would dare to bulge. 1t is an
unfortunate figure besides; for Rebel
lions yeasty pillows never dashed
against the rock Havelock. Have
| lock dashed against then and Gained or
| dispersed them; and indeed, Havelock
was not "unskaking;" for because he
didn't stand mistaken he made Rebel
lions yeasty pillows perfectly fly. but
not in shattered form" if foam can be
shattered" which is a very wrong ap-
plication of the word. Whether he
dashed high the wave on wave which he
drove without whip or goad, or Re-
dashed high is not very clear, perhaps
because they are yeasty. The next
stanzas read:
$50 standl-the busy feet of women go by
| thee
Each one to-day the safer for thy sword
| Meeane.'s just and valiant chief is nigh
Palmerston, Beaconsheld, the great Sea-
Lord.
Well met in some far-off serenest session
The unimpassioned rest of great men
| gone;
And here together set-love's poor pro
! fession!-
In stored efiigy and sculptured atone''
Again he commands the commander
to stand Whether each busy foot, OF
each man that goes by him is safer to-
day, he does not make clear; and we
are very sure that they were not the
safer for that swOrd-in bronze, nor his
other sword. but, if that expression i:
not extravaganza, it is for his ability tc
dispose of and command hi army tC
.'shatter the yeasty foam" of Rebel
lions wave, if not Rebellion itself.
But he calls 'Beaconsfeld the great.Sea
Lord" if the words are any guide. He
no doubt, means Lord Nelson, but fol
want of the conjunction land" before
"the," we must read Beaconsfelda as the
great Sea.Lord. He lacks perspicuity
In this place as in others, which NJ
poetic license will permit HIM to b.
guilty of. For the sake of the rhyme
in the third line of the last stanZa quot
ed above, he calls the work set I'm stor
ried effigy and sculptured stone, love-:
poor profession" instead of Love-
poor offering" His expletive impart
no sense, unless he were sitting BESIDE
us to explain his meaning. The TIVE
! stanzas, above quoted, are separated b.
comma or a dash. which we consider
is bad taste in short poem, as eacl
should be completed in itself, or if tn
stanzas cannot be so they should not b
separated by spaces as stanzas. This
, also a weakness in the authors volum
) in several places, and displays bad tast
, or want want of culture.
The next:
All! speaking stone, and bronze eunningi
craven
To show those champions of the Englis
Ii name
: Are mems hearts such, that knave and foC
! Can pass ye daily. and be still the same?
= We reply: Yes, mems hearts ar
such that those characters would nc
, be honest, nor wise, nor brave, by SET
!. ing the group SO described, not even
. they could hear the speaking stone an
\ bronze. But the champions SO set i
! "unimpassioned rest" might inspir
. the brave to be Drawer, the loyal to b
= more patriotic, the other poo
|rascals never. In the first line tn
word .icunningly'' breaks the iambi
measure abruptly, and craven" is Gel
tainly poetic license to use it to ston
and bronze for chisel and mould-but
then, it rhymes with "craven," so "
j overlook the proper term. Again:
But, true and faithful servantl Somewher
q planning
That labor multiplies and wage is none,
Read Hayelock's history, and thereby gail
ing
: The comfort of his courage, copy one.
E Who all life's chilly spring and summe
dreary
q Wrought in pure patience what he foun
to do,
s Possessing his own soul-not once weary
Content, because God was eontented too
These two stanzas are clumsily e.
pressed prose, spun out in lines. TIL
poet turns exhorter, calling on som
= imaginary servant somewhere pLainin
!. this word is awkward and obsolescen
= in this place used for complaining. TIL
: true and faithful-both adjectives bein
! synonymous. and therefore two syllable
! are used to fill up the measure merel.
9 which weakens the expression-'servaI
plains That labor multiplies and wag
!; is none" That is certainly peculia
condition for true and faithfulservar
!, to be in, when labor multplies and b
y gets no wages"-that is, he works fe
: nothing and finds himself Now, it is
business truth that if labor multiple
:, wages are better, instead of being non,
o whatever that means But the tru
and faithful is eIhorted to read Hav'
locks history, and thereby gaining-nC
: thereby gain-the comfort of his cou
age, copy one" so ends the stanzi
: without even comma or a favorit
dash.
who all life's chilly spring and summs
ell. dreary."
Very rarely do poets call summe
dreary, dreary; but our poet is pri'
leged character and makes his ow
e language, draws his own figures. form
, his own measure, and punctuateS hi
J.. verses. in an original manner. The OF
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