Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-08

home and the Preside, and in other direc.
| tions which concern the happiness of wo
! men.
But I must not detain you with any side
remarks.
In behalf of the members of the Socia
Science Club l desire again to thank Hy.
| patia for this generous welcome and ex.
press the hope that the proceedings of the
| Social Science club may be as profitable as
our visit to Wichita mas been pleasant and
enjoyable.
Under the head OF literature, Mrs. James
Humphrey, of junction City, read poem
as follows:
| POETIC EXPRESSION
The world of outward seeming
| With life and beauty teeming
| Projects upon the brain by a mysterious
law
OF movement and impression,
Images in succession,
| Of which the soul takes cognizance with
awe.
Objects and their relations
| Shifting as coruscations
Meteoric, or existing still unchangeably,
Awakening fullest tension
Of the conscious apprehension,
Produce emotion, thought and poesy.
By the law of force persistent,
A thought is still inslstent
Once inspired, on expression full and free
As poetic imagery,
Or artistic revery,
Sculptored form or singers melody.
Or wave of deep emotion
Becomes duty. love, devotion,
Rejecting baser forms of rage and jealousy,
Thrilling over nerves eHerent,
As the rare power IS Inherent
To adjust the life and thought in harmony.
AS the earth is eyer taking
To her bosom sleeping, waking,
Unmeasured stores OF water, heat and
light,
And as constantly outsending
With profuson never ending
Wealth of blossoms, store OF fruit and
flowers bright.
So the senses ever active,
Alert, facile, receptive,
Bring sensations and experiences strange,
To the mind for exaltatlon
For mysterious transmutation,
Into thought Of deeper ever widening
range.
Material substances lending
Their particles to blending
By the law of self-formative action rise,
Clay Opaque to ruby turning
Charcoal. dainty footsteps spurning,
Crystallized becomes the diamond which
we prize.
Thus, u mingling and reception
Of unique, varied perception,
In the souls alembic rises to the height
OF a holy inspiration
Seeking perfect conservation
To pure and high ideal of the right
There's an import and meaning
Which the soul is ever cleaning,
From environment of earth and air and
sky,
From the beauty Of the morning
With roseate hues adjoining,
From the shadows which in quiet waters
lie.
From the brightness and the glory
OF the springs recurring story.
With emerald illustrations on the page,
From the pleasure bearing hours,
Garlanded with summer flowers,
Diamond drops of falling showers, or
mirage.
From the scent of hay and clover
Autumn winds are waiting over,
Pennons floating from long rows of corn
stalks brown,
With yellow richness weighted,
Ger smiling orchards freighted,
Gracious trees with mellow fruitage bend
ing down
From the music of the river.
loving onward, uO"UWdTu, eyer,
With ripping monotone of melody,
Or the torrent in its dashng
'Gainst the rocks with angry clashing,
As it foams and surges over the steep de-
clivity.s
Nature yields precious witness
To one with inward fitness
OF comprehension for Gods perfect
thought,
Who joys in contemplation,
And seeks Interpretation
Of ethic symbols everywhere inwrought.
With facile interchanging,
Universal in its ranging,
Light is heat, and heat magnetic power,
Directed. modified in action,
In absorption or refraction,
By conditions and the forces of the hour.
Thought, too, hath its correlations.
And mysterious divinations
Seek expression in the various forms of
art;
Given outlet and direction
By Inherited prediction,
And the pressure time and circumstance
lmpart.
If thine eve hath caught the cleaning
Light of truth, from heaven streaming,
In the glory and the grandeur of its birth,
Aud thy hand can deftly trace it,
Gladly take thy brush and place it
On the canvass with the thought that
gives it worth.
Will it come to thee when hidden,
Lovely image that is hidden
In the block of marble? Use thy power
To the fullest measure.
Not for gain alone, nor pleasure,
IT'S holy and a consecrated dover.
When the waves of conscious seeing,
Stir the inmost depths OF being,
With a revelation OF lnilnlty,
Bubbling from the caldron heated,
Come thy sentences completed,
and sealed divinity
Does the rhythmic harmony,
Move thy soul ecstatlcalIy
With JOYOUS or q melancholy strain;
Do low repeated cadences,
Find spiritual responsiveness,
Voice them then in thrilling note Of sweet
refrain.
Art thou overcome with silence,
When thou standest In the presence,
Doth thy right hand lose its cunning JooS
None the less thy life IS loyal,
None the less thy crown Is royal,
II thy heart is willing helpful work TO do. |
Friendly smile of communication,
Kindly deed of ministration,
Brave submission 20 u1toward fate;
Innate pure and vlvlfying
Simple life. exemplifying
Divine communion, holy intimate.
Either channel of expression,
Voices but the same confession,
This all nature saith 70 me:
All her grandeur, all her beauty,
Symbolizes faith and duty
To God and to humanity
MARY A. HUMPHREY.
Under the head OF sanitary science, Mrs. |
Craven. of Kansas City, read an essay on