Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-06-23
peciAl Correspondence OF THE EVENING STAR:
tCOoyrignJ-d lSSS.)


Rise. and to power a daring heart oppose,
CONFRONT with death Thy worse than deathnke Toes
Better 70 bare the breast and undsmayed
Meet the sharp Veng ance Of the hostile blade
Al M nr eS al y, o $500 sIsi =, 20
oAe 'noc And ueat.ls W ue.
Ifttbe tru.h that nstiors still INNS. hear
The crushing yoke the wasting letters wear
IL 70 the people TINS be heavens decree.
To clasp their shame. struggle to be free:
from truth 50 osse my hesrt indignant turns
, Mtln IreedoH : irenzy al ny spirit burns
And AS thx baapt coii,rnb,a' nssr,at ~ siy,'
cuba tbou sim snail ri.@ a. Dlre a. bright
As thy free air.-as fun OF living light;
Iree rs the waves that foam around thy strands
Missing thy shores, aud CURING Ger thy sands!
And where can be found verse more sweet. pa
thetic and noble than In these stanZaS from "The
Season OF the NOrthers," inscribed TO his wife in
Cuba by the great-sOulei exile In Mexico:
Beloved isle thou favored land of God
Where rest his mlldest looks his kinCiest smiles:
%. neverrnOre from thy enhallOwed soil
May cruel fortune tear me; but be thine
Inc latest llsht that on These eS es shall shine!
,Y. l., -, 4. -. -.
srbs, 49, ~ ~, 49,, -. ~ VIC I laiu
TO he.r az viii SSi nj oS xitIn & ne ,
Where shaIterlng surges Lash the distant shore!
Eere by thy side ON softest couch reclined.
~ an ~ $40 nS-tI snail sing The Doundless peace
Nv hspTI loi al AZ CO, ~ 1r Wy az rae;
The tender eyes OF Heredia never again looked
upon his own ''enhallowed soil" But on every
IlOuatdn streain anu valley IN CUBA ne elt the
Vi ms "" u sur plsaiNs io'e anu senius'
, A' VI hAiANNA@-
49, 1.,,,'o WIN heie'
HOoN iliiico ny uLon 'uOAn 'nVuShO anu dspra-
ZION was OF the nOblest character, was Milanes,
humble CLERK OF Matanzas There Is perhaps not
another so sad and striking an INSTANCE in ne
annals OF literature OF the sacred name burning
upon lOfriest and pIlre,r shrine proytng So Dit
eousy disastrous TO It's pOssessor the inspiration
OF Milanes was in the ATTEMPTED ACCOMPLISHMENT
OF the grandest OF social missions PatriOtIc 10 an
equality with Heredia he was more The popt OF
reflection OF intruspectiOn OF exalted phil6sonby
He II hest In ms In rhannS
Faith, hope, effort, all that can protnpt men TO
ceda, the mad poet OF Snain, was his veritabIe an
tithesis. The latter stung TO madnes, by the
burning Consciousness OF his own unfortunate orr
Tor flaming brands OF imagery with winch no. ami.
nilate virtue and debase I9ankind An hour came
back IN ruin upon himself, A ttiinp sennej he
composed upon his mothers grave m the Madrid
Campo Santo. the most dreadful ard devilish poem
ever conceived by human mind ia Desespera-
ciOnr-ani, a blasphelnOuS maniac appeared with
II before his friends destroy himself and TO utter
expired ,he famous defiance s.tlte tqIe ofro,r
c.Let tie next one deaIv9 But Door Mfanes-
crazed with his cOuntry's wrongs BAN d In rs er-
forts 10 eley ate his countrymen. desperate at the
sOdden indifference OF progressive and free America
TO the ignorance and helpessness OF his brethren
burned his life Ia it, own pure fiaIne until rea-
Son Was dethrOned, and but the ashes OF darkness
were LETT where famed the poetic fires.
POSSIBLY THE MOST NOTABLE FIGuRE
among Cuban poets is that of Gabriel De Ia Con-
cepcion ya,aes or placido 49, ha nanasd h,,,Sol,
eePcion 'aiues, UT riaciuo' as ne named himself
unlawful, DarentaCe IN Cuba. IL usually means
that the father Is unknown and THAI the church
has often stood In fathers place in a VaIdss or
fOundiin.-s ho.niraI In the c1prtsIsn,", IN n ~,
event, Pacido was OF the mestizos, the Laf-oreeds
vi CuDd- he was a JOurneyman cOmb-Inaker, Bit
ry pOo,, ui,teLy o'ti aeised Dtteriy resentlul OF
tyr 10 hts own peans 10 IreedGn In the Insurrec-
. of the blacks Whatever his relations miyht have
been 10 the Insurgents, horrible accusations were
June d isi4 ne ySas sSec,,,ea Win oine,e on
others Ills bearing was that OF a conguerer
kneeling with unDlndacen ewes he re- .eiy,.d
the nrst volley with smiling face. lie Tell for
ward wounded only In the shnulder Slowly
rising upon his knees TO his fullest height wi, h
radiant face and unfalterinx voice he exclaineti
Farewell world ever pltI.s, To met Fir,-here,',
raising his hands TO his temples The next yOIley
killed him. But the legend throughouL Cuba i,
c casS oane smile OF triumph rested upon PA
verse was dressed IN uneouth ~ n. rha a.. S-rh
and was f,Iil OF the superiative passion OF the
pariah of tine sllmy Gales struck mon his Wild
ana tattered harp any I.y appeaIinc 70 the mn
versal human heart the potes were 1nst,.siic and
even subIine ais sonneJo 70 Tei Zaryypis.n anu
Christ are not exceied in onx isngnpsre u anr
this thunC.er-nots ~ tnd1n,t IN Lar n Tel.
IT,. :, V AZ - Hh'ioii IA 'Aa' " ieH'-
t1;nr hs vi t ~ i. . elements
80 1870 'ne usspo' : sshes from their breasts
Anu where Is there more thrilling apostrophe to
aHyrIy, -, ,, Si.-S Eotl tne etonzed caStawayS
Sosin TnuTders,t bin,,s FN VIZ 'Oi' uAoinins
O Iibertyl I wait for thee
10 break this chain and dungeon bar;
I ~ w ~ ~, SPIT, , ealiiS X me
With voice Ike Coils and xisaa. like . .t.,
L9ns eracled by the wind.
lay mates the eagle and the storm.
T6s 49,, 49, so ~ Wy orOw unolnd
And srnite The -tr.7.,th IT,, S.7, III ,h.
defOrini
orurp pov,-s ~, -
s IBIS VI SODA
80 i'0u iane iof thsir sons ana freedom Tor
their idohzedl land, are Rafael Maria de Mendive
whose volume .Pasionartes, , Will rant xxt,b ,bs
works Of spv ,r,a,,ca,, -. -, -, - -.
W.. ~ ny y, IN pVT,' Juan Gueli Rente,
trar =, S " 'Ie SouI, Puonsheuln 1876, Dear
poems OF patriotism ana nsson sr. mil or Ir "a
beauty, Joaquin Grauados whose aposTrophe 10
ea, ss1ne entlIles INN 70 lauredteship; Blan-
and p, sII.d non c' , Is mournlui pure
ings wbcb si,r ~ Va eO.E i anu eEehtual bless
descriptive poems. lOye-sOners and Isme,'ts ere