The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-19

Hot Springs, bringing with him the hush
of health restored upon his cheeks. The
Judge is mentally rejuvenated, as well as
physically, and his ponderous intellect he
sways by the force Of his indomitable will,
like dry leaf in cyclone.
GLOW did you like the Springs? How
did YOU find your old friends thereY How
did you kill time and employ your mind,
SO long accustomed to activity and a
strain that would bring bone spavins on
the knee joints of ordinary intellects?"
asked an APPEAL reporter.
~ enjoyed myself immensely" said
the Judge. ~ went there for rest-whole,
complete and thorough rest. In earlier
DAYS, when first entered the legal field
and followed the intrcacies OF its many
windings, there was no rest for me. No
matter when paused or where was, my
mind was continually active ! strove
with the iine-drawn difference between
an executory devise and contingent re-
mainder; / labored to distinguish between
A deodand and n Don Fierna fairy; | COM
batted the tenacious idea that bailments
had the remotest connection with bonds,
or that fee, feo-simple, fee-limited or
a iee.tai had any more TO do with lawyers
fee than II has with fee, Il, 70, FUN, smell
the blood OF an Englshman, or that any
estate in co-parcenery would come TO-
eether kcrchuckl upon the demise OF one
of tho tenant sisters. ! used 10 worry with
these things in my younger days, but
now" and the Judge looked back through
the long avenue where every Just decision
stood as a milestone on his march TO
present glory, NOV. after nino years on
the bench, surrounded as am with an at
mosphere OF judicial solemnity, have cul.
tiyaIed the faculty OF taking my case and
enjoying yagrant pilgrimages through the
realms OF poetry, art and history. II Is
with individuals rs with nations, no prog
ress can be made until surplus OF ordi.
nary necessities has been acquired, ana
this surplus, this ability 10 rest on one
oars-io ny from the heat and strife and
struggle OF everyday liic-has humanlz'
Ing effect. We sec with clearer vision the
wants and weaknesses OF our fellow mem;
we become more reflective and charitable,
aud have greater sympathy Tor humaii-
ity.
W llt rNANhh ARAAo' "
baths friend OF mine sent ms a manu-
script copy OF Dante's "lnicrno" from
Florence, Italy, where he is making some
antiquarian researches. One stanza which
| translated in desullory manner, among
others, struck me forclbly. No man can
read II without being benefited. No man
can appreciate il and harbor jealousy OF
p.que or pride, those ugly attributes OF
IL q Ia
"Eycn the snown lets a shadow fall
A. ~ the earth Il softly siuks totCsE
~ may the purc.t. brightest soul II all
Seem sometimes WRONG 10 thuso who know u
best"
THAT is excellent" said the reporter.
"You have n splendid disccrnmcnt aud can
pick out aud treasure up poetic gems like
a born critic. DO you admire poetry very
much7"
IL used to-I do now, although much o
Il has been knocked out Of mo 10y the hui
lettings Of adverse waves. hkopoc,ry this
IL pociical-poelry that is the ciilorcsccnc
Of the soul
"'Nc the legend Erave aud hoary; not the stiltet
vauliing rhyme,
Not the learned lay, aud pondrous chiscled iai
by rule aud art
feeling heart
'isome poets have won fame tina, do no
deserve II. Others have won fame VIII
do deserve IL Tor some of their work an
who deserve exocraliou for some Others
Think, for instance, VI Lord Tonnyso
writing
"'And the stately ships 90 on
To their haven under tine hit
Hut -. Tot tho touch ul a Nanlahh hand,
Aud the sound Of aNoioc that il t,llu
"Now what possessed him 10 yoke u
two lint lines 10 the third and forth? VIII
do they mean? We speak OF haml
under tho bill, a vine clad cottage und
the hill, n slaughtcr-house or dumpir
ground under the hill. but stately sh
that ploughs the ocean aud deiics the iu
OF Neptune, never Aud u this Tau
could 30 condoned, which ] claim canno
why should he at best couple an idiot
abstraction with such q general, such
concrete cluster OF feelings ~ la the tv
las, hnes3 lie Just didn't know what
say. or he was crazy.
''llc h not the only one who has bc,
guilty OF this sloycnly work. Take GRAY
Elegy. upon which he spent seven ycal
Seven years. Just think OF ~ Only Il
yeAn lees than have spent wearing 4
spolloSs crmino and making history
the bench. How would 90 down In b
tory, think you, II could not show n b
ter record rs a Judge than Gray does a
poet7' (llcro tho Judge east n 10
through the misty yapors of coming a.
10 SEQ Just how much space would
gwen in tho biographical diciionariC
AID yet history may 10 me injusti
Now take the quotation from his 'Elcg
which reads
"'fuu many gcfn u purrsi my. scrcne.
The DARK uufnfhumod caves ~ oruau hpaf
lull many Hover u botu 10 blush unsc'
And waite iis suuvlucs OF the dCscft ai
"Now ] would ask what ON earth
means by serene and why he pu
therci Docs u qualify the verb DE
Then u should DO an adyorh serene
Does d qualify the noun 'gcmf Thci
Is clumsy Solccsm. Why. be m
with as much grace 0yo used mach
tufccn, dudino OF anything else that ",
on out the line aud make rhyme thl
oil be wanted. Why did ho not chm
the construction OF the alanza when
found u could not DO rendered sensible
intelligent without siuillng In an q,
meaningless Wurdl Why, lot instn
didn't he make II this way
"lull many pfiocloaH gem Of purost ray
AhN uAfA uuiIth HfuNu NHNfH 90 urrHu uuaf
And unseen huWcfa. she ftir.t fade away
AMI waste Their sweetness On tlie dessfl al
at might not have been as sweet
mclOdiOus but u would be correct
would not be- sacrificing the sense 10
sound or adding two feet 10 q short lc
verse; And 10 think this Is the labc
seven years."
Judge" said the reporter, you
10 be clever at pharaphmsing, have