Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-10-25
RETROSPECTION.



edge of his "foolishness" has in it as much
pathos as piety, and touches, at some time
a responsive chord in every breast not quite
dehumanized, There is in this wall the
consciousness of errors preventable by re-
Election, or partially remediable by repent
ant action: of wrongs produced through
inclinations possible of resistance of de-
liberate choice Of evil where freedom to
choose good was enjoyed of mistakes whose
consequences rest on the actor as more
snned against than SHINING, Differences in
causes scarce modify results, or mitigate the
poignancy of regret inseparable from such
confession. The more to be dreaded be-
cause in some degree experienced univer-
sally. If every soul did not have to be
educated through experience, ii it were
worth while to warn, entreat, advise, in the
noviate of existence, those whose heart scars
and spirit wounds have been long attested
through secret bitterness or whelming floods
of sorrow detying concealment or restraint,
might become tender physicians to prevent
rather than cure, teachers whose wisdom has
been paid for in hard and bitter school.
How chances mock,
And changes fill the cup OF alteration
With divers liquors o, if this were seen,
The happiest youth-viewing his progress
through,
| What perils past, what crosses to ensue-.
Would shut the book, and sit him down and
die
And Shakespeare knew, as well as man may
know, what there is in man either to enjoy
or suffer. For the sum of mental misery
there is, as in case Of physical suffering,
generally division OF responsibility. Who
is the greater sinner, the tempter or the
tempted? A question not to be hastily or
easily answered But, in morals, a seeming
paradox disappears before terrible fact;
Wherever we lodge the responsibility, conse'
| quences attach themselves with rivets to the
personal performer In the immature judg
ment of youth lies The prolific germ OF the
crop of human regrets.
With what cracked pitchers go we to deep
wells
| In this world
| That is the after thought. Perhaps not al
together too late But then, in that June
day" before it was fright" we believe what
We wished, and refused to see, though
having eyes Actions, apparently slight in
themselves, aiterward become accuserS OF
the enlightened and sObered mind. Triiles
take ON gravity when they invade the do
main OF genuine truth and honest sincerity.
AT eighteen an album is handed you, and
you transcrlbe sentiment, or, more culpa-
bly,, compose. In twenty others you write
the same, or ncariy the same. Not one syl
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nntn reach thn climax of supposed victory.
Oman onnnsition ther. viii now be none
but the triumph has cost her husband s de-
votion love goes next; respect tails at
length, and the woman has lost all u acye
holds dear. One day, the Roman eagle
shrleked us it saw the cohorts fail III the
wilderness by the hands of the wild hordes
now known rs Germans. Augustus wruhS
his hands, eXclalming, "Narus, give me
back my legIons J. One sad, altcr lhe ais
astrOuS DltLlc, But we gained the victory
zone more such victory, salu inc aSohihea
emperor, land am uhdoneF Corydoh mas
been rudGly Wakenel from his dream ny
the Phlilis whom MS fancy hau palhIcd
brighter than an angel: When we saw
Strephon anu ChIoe tripping IL 10 oIetha
Green who could have supposed that things
would ever come 10 such pass us this
Reckless reconsideration OF the principles
which determine right conduct bears pen,
tiiul irult Tor bitter retrospectIon. we dld
not aim high enough; perhaps dld not ann
at ali; but Kept our eyes down on inc we
and trampled mud VII we hai lost tle SENSE
OF right. why Coulu not see thaI there
were beauty, order, law, around, above De
meath me? why dld | gut my fancy
with the mean, the perIshlng, beholdlng,
realizing, nothing OF the divine within,
"iIh"u''
Till down upon the ilthy ground dropped,
Ana tore Inc VlOlcts up go SeI Cle WORMS :
An, between individual purDlindncss and
the treachery OF human kHid, to IL sad
complexion It would come at last were there
not. indeed
A divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we will