The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1889-04-20

| Camilles who forget their Armands q
they conquer their consumption and
settle down into unremOrseful and
demi-respectable middle agep Do i'm.
measurable disappointment always
make existence desert? Is there not
such thing as forgetfulness of
acute miseries instead of mem.
orizing them into chronic griefss
Does not the expectant treatment often
cure the most bruised and bleeding
soul-expectancy that still looks for
happiness, both in this world and the
world to come? Is there no true
philosophy in that vulgar maxim which
reminds us there are as good fish in the
sea as ever were taken out? Can it be
possible that any two souls, in spite OF
vast divergences, are SO made for each
that when sundered by imperative fate
neither again can ever find twin?
We are not wise enough to answer
all these questions which we so blithe-
ly profound. As year after year multi
| plies ones experience in human lives
he meets at distant intervals a tenn
peramentso lovely in the warmth OF
its sunshine, the brightness Of its beau
ty, the sweetness of its inhalations, the
purity of its labyrinths, and the tan
talization of its mysteries, that to yield
| is as natural as for the plummet to seek
the bottom of the sea- Who shall define
the magic of touch, the secret of a
tone, the enchantment of a look, the
mesmerism of a caressP Nay,who shall
explain the sorcery of q presence, the
witchery of an inauenceg Shakespeare
says
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import forgetfuiness IN me
beautiful exaggeration which only a
poets heart could invent. Yet who
that has ever loved does not keep an
adjunct" does not cherish a portrait,
a handkerchief, a tress, a flower. any
thing in which is blent the aroma of
personality passionatelys loved, ire
vocably vanishedP
There is good deal of .unvoiced suf-
fering in life-the suffering that is due
simply to dispeled ideas 1t is shallow
to hold that such suffering is morbid
and easily remedied. Sorrow of this
kind is morbid only when it is so self
encouraged as to paralyze action.
Whatever remedy exists is found
in the line of ~ constant effort
in healthy objections Unfort-
innate are they who, unable to make
effort themselves, have no, one to
arouse them. Sympathy acts merely
as sedative If given in too large
dose. There comes time when change
of medicine is necessary. The platitu-
dinous author of '.Proverbial Philoso-
ply never said any thing falser in lbs
meaning than eff the love of the heart
be blighted it bloometh not again"
The same love, of course, does not
bloom again, any more than the flower
reblooms that is trampled in the mud.
But a fairer flower may burst its petals
and sweeter love evolve to speech
through passionate silences.
1T seems cold and hard to turn from
precious possibilities like this and
maintain that ambition, to say nothing
of the russet-gowned virtue, duty. may
occupy the energies which for
merly thrilled to more palpi-
tant vibrations. Yet ambition is 7
practically "a good 6 lasubatituse
for love, when faithlessness of lover>or
sweetheart has left the feelings arid
but yearning. Duty is a better substi-
ttite still; but all one must fall in love
withed9ty In order to do one's duty
with content Such love L. passion.
less. Duty is kissless and caressless.
Our hands, our lips, our hearts do not
thrill beneath her touch, unless, In.
deed, she holds a martyrs crown be-
fore. US and wa reach to it through j
flame. Still let us take kindly to this
sad-suited duty, who generally wears
no garb but holden gray. II we can
take to her kindly and make of her
lifelong friend, she will reassure, the
heart which feels that it is breaking
and give it a foretaste of happiness
perhaps when it shall really break at
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