The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-11-08

poem:
thinh It is one of JOHN HENRY RoNER' 5
very br :, and that le IS not surpassed by
any living poet of North Carolina uativ-
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The following is the poem:
roE's COTTAGE AT EoRDHAM.
Here lived the soul enchanted
By melody Of song;
Here dwelt me spirit haunted
BY a demouIdc thrOng,
Here sang the lips elated.
Here grief and death We're stated,
Here loved and here minated
v as he. SO frail SO strCLg.
Here wiatry winds and cheerIess
The dying hrelight blew
While he whose soug was peerless
Dreamed The drear midnight through
And from dull embers chilling
CrepT shadows tarkly filling
The silent place, aud th-l ing
His fancy Is they grew
Here. with brow barred to heaven.
III starry night he stood,
With the lost star OF seven
Feeling sad brotherhood.
Here n the soboing showers
vi dark autumnal hours
He heard suspected powers
Shrek through the stormy wood.
From visions Of Apollo
Aud OF AStartt, bliss,
He gaztd into the hollow
And hopeless vale Of Dis;
And though earth were surrounded
By heaven, it still was mounded
With graves. His soul had sounded
-he d0lorOus abyss.
Proud, mad, but not defiant,
He touched at heaven and hell.
Fate found q rare s9L. plIa-t
And rung her changes Well
Alternately bis ly.e,
Stranded with strings Of fire,
Led earth's most happy choir
Or flashed with ISRAELI.
No singer Of old story
Lifting accustomed lays,
No harper for new glory,
No nendicant Tor praise,
He struck high chords and splendid,
Wherein were fercely blended
Tones that unfinished ended
With his unfinished days.
Here through this lowly portal
Made sacr- by his Iame.
UnheraIded immortal
Tne mortal went and came
And fate that then denied him,
And envy that decried him,
AM malice that oelied him,
Have ceuo-apheu uio fame.
M >ELLEck, an ART loving New Yorker
recently placed a $500 cop. Of the Nenu:
de Ardici on his lawn His neighbors pro
tested, and one morning when Mr.. sell
LEck woke up ne found his statue clothed
IN a flannel petticoat High art IS not ap
prsciaCed IN this country.
THAT Man is truly great who can remair
unmoved under severe adverse criticism
The secret Of being able to 90 this Is con
scious innoceuse Of any act that deserve.
adverse criticism; then one can remain a.
Indifferent as if ones critic did not exist
Exchange.
The GOVERNOR doesn't want GERONIMO
and His band ia North Carolina and IA
SAID 50 ii emphatic terms. 1t is under
stood, however, that the majority OF tn
people in the section il which it was pro
posed 10 locate them, think that there
millions il it" and are anxious to sci
them land and secure them as nelghbors
They think the presence Of such blood
thirsty band guarded by Federal soldiers
would add to the interest Of their section
The Washington Post says that CONGRESS
Nan EWART is in Washington TO try 10 Sc
cure the location Of these Indians IN Wes
tern North Carolina The Post says
1t IS understood that his mission has no
been Unsuccessful and that ii the nea
future the Meac4lerOa will be dOmiciled il
the region OF moonehIne whiskey and Mis-
Murfree5 ronauces II the Apaches tax
on scalp hunting fever then the noun
taiuears viii make short work OF them
Is their name Indicates, this branch 0
tn Apaches are Mescal erOs-lovers 0
1ne.e u Undoubtedly they viii take kind J.
10 the Juice Of the corn, which Is said L
be very fine around Roam Mountain an
south TO the HackamaXy.