The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-27

symbol for poetic inspiration. than Is
the spirit OF the eternal God the very
muse that has inspired all true poetry
that was ever written.
4 i do not include in this-l need
scarcely say-the poetry of casualty.
OF brutality, falsehood, hypocrisy and
lust; which disgrsces. and not adorns.
wherever found. the worlds literature:
Nell her do L palliate-however much L
admire genius. its prostitution to ignoble
ENDS 40 true poetry was ever based
on an5thing low and groveling; II Is
impossible 20 soit sunbeam. The poet
may psrvert his gift. as the judge may
disgrace his ermine. but the spirit Of
poetry, the genius of justice, can never
he dragged In the mire. Day and night,
dross and gold. are not more essentially
separate. although their edges may join.
than IS the essence of poetry distinct
from everything base. sensual and de-
PRAYED. II is that high sense OF night
which scorns all wrong: the sword and
balance OF eternal justice; the voice OF
mercy pleading for the fallen; the
tongue OF truth heralding salvation and
reform: the oracle Of liberty proclaim
ing freedom to the captive and deliver
ancs N the oppressed; the thunder-bolt
OF TetIibution which lays the tyrant
low. 1t is akin to that Spirit which
lesdfth into all truth; which reveals
things past and things to come; which
takes OF the things OF God and shows
them un.o mort4is. The pillar of faith
which is not 10 be broken; the light OF
hope which IS never eKtinguished: the
fountain OF charity and 10 which
never fails.
4 few words more in relation to pro-
phetic poetry. An anonymous writer
says: so entirely do great poets soar
beyond the reach, and almost beyond
the ken OF their own age. that We have
only lately begun TO have a right I'm
derstanding Of Shakespeare, or OF the
masters of the Greek drama to discern
the principles which actuated them. the
purposes they bad in view. the laws
they acknowledged. and the ideas they
wished 10 impersonate." IN q d.
1 u Here Is pIescient glimpse of Shake
speare's. worthy Of one Of the old He
br W proph Is:
he clou l-cAPt towers, the Gorgeous palaces.
! he solemn temples the great globe Itself
Y ali that Il in crit shsiI dissolve,
And like the b9-eleSS fabric OF a vision
4 Leave not rGck behind. IN.
Tennyson, in Locksley Hall, foreteIls
the iunphs-yet TO be-of aerial navi-
cation. and the advent OF the Millen-
mum:
For ! int iBto the fu. ure. far as human eye
Saw tn vision OF the world and AZ the won
dery 10 be;
Saw the heavens I'LL with commerce, argosies
OF mag sails,
Pilots ofIhe pu p twiligh dropping down
1 with costix bales;
Heard the heavens I'LL v III shouting. and
there rsined a CHASTITY dew
From the rs ioG's -irT naTies graphing in
the centfas b.ue;
Pa alore tbe worldwide whisper of The
south wind rushing warm.
With the 81 nda ds.f the people pI7nging
~ through the thunderstorm.
Till the war drum throbbed no longer. and
The hot l. flsgs were furled
n The PsrliHuei.t of man, the Federation
of The world
There the common sense Of mos; shsT hold
: ite ful world In avs.
And the study earth shAn siumbev. lapt in
univ erSal law.
Bryant, our. American bard. gives
Truth crushed TO earth shall rise again:
But Error. wounded. writhss wish Pain,
And dies amid his worshipPers-
Char..s Mackay, in po. IN entitled
Eternal Justice" supplies this genera
ton with some choice food Tor refiec-
ton:
The msu is thought knaye or fool
Or bigo; citing cs-me,
Who, ia the adyancrInent OF his race,
L. wiser nnu mis- time
Por him he hemlock shall dLstIIi.
For him the axe be ssred.
For him p gibbet shall be built.
FOR him The stake prepared:
him lhall The sc.tn and wrath OF men.
Pursu- with deadly ain
And m lice e"Vy, light and Les
shall oesecrNe his name
Bur ruth shall ncuer a. tie last,
Urrohud and round weTun.
Aud ever the right comes uppefmost
And ever is lcs; &c done
Pace through thy cell. old socrAteK
Cheeii - and 70;
irust 70 the imi use Of lily sou
And les he poison TOW;
Ihey may sbslter &, earth the lamp o! cay /
That holds light divine,
But they cannot cuench the ire OF thought i
By anS such dea ~ wine;
They mo. bloi thy oxen words
Pr. N TIE memory Of mau
BY Al the % son ever was bre6eo
Since tlule us C4ulrc ocbaa
TODAY abhorreo to-morrov adored.
So .uud and round We run,
Ana ever the truth comes upPermos;
And ever Is justice done
pod in thy cave, gray Anchotite;
Be wiser than thy peers;
Augment the r nge OF human power
And trust 70 coming yssrs.
They may call ehee wizard, sne monk &C
Cursed,
And load thee with dispraise.
Thou vert born Eve hundred esrs tSo soon
For the comfort Of thy days
But no: too soon for human kind
TIE hath reward In store:
And TIE demons Of our sires becon-
rhe tints whom we adore-
The blind can see, the slave IL lcfd:
81 round ana round we run.
And erer the wrong Is proved 70 be wrong
And ever is justice done-
keep. Cali go. 20 thy thought
And nerve thy sou! 20 bear;
They may goat Der the eenSe1es& words
they wiring
Ftou he psngs OF thy despair
F6.v my veil their ewes. but they cannot |