The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-11-22

md in sorrow It seem that he this world must
roam
Until death, that happy boon, soOn shall call
him home"
And now he pronounces blessings
IN her as follows:
May the GSd OF heaven above, aud of earth
below,
Ny priceless danes life with true pleasure
o'erhOw,
TIL on earth she hath dawn her last neotinE
breath.
And her sweet desciibelem hfes swallowed |
mp In death.
May her spirit then spread its everlasting wing
Aud soar away to VIII. no the ArchRnsels do sing; |
To where the rising floods OF 6ol's sffulgent
light
Shall never be famed BY the soubrs wings Of
night.
o may no hend from hell across her path tread,
That forever she will In flaming fires bed"
Then he RECEIVERS from his fit OF
melancholy and, breaking ont In her
praises, he Thapsodizes thus:
III sIlVe toned tongue OF eloquenee had,
And my mind was with celestial wisdOn clad
Then II had a parchment like the stAr.lit sky,
And use the ocean for ink till drained It dry,
And write her soodness on this scrOll from side
side,
All OF her traits on 1t could M be Specihed
To IN IN tvai no an thts O.. Ia
start,
ira drain the ocean dry ana the fountain Of
my heGrtp
What magnificent figures, what stu.
pendous thoughts, what sublime poe.
tryl Think Of silvertoned tongue OF
eloqueuce reinforced by a mind clad
with celestial VISION; then tsucy .
parchment as braad aid bright As The
star-it sEy, sAd the ocean v.st ink
we'll. Yet vita all this e1hsustlsSs
supply of writing materials, and
! equipped with this Silvery eloquence
and heavenly wisdom he could NOT
even make 3 start" TO write down
and specify her Gratis" The mighty
storm.Swept, billoWy ocean, supple
mentod with the carmine fountain
that flows in the poets great, manly
heart, would tail in their ink suppl,
long before the task we're fairly begun
And the illimitable concave OF tn,
celestial sphere, bespangled with il
eternal jewels, would be obscured il
darkness by his crowd ng lines ant
|, columns before he could even &c
cleverly started in his specifications
Recurring again to his great desir
to see her he becomes sanguine an,
thus sings: ~
81 hope Ged in his providence will give TO m
, An opportunity ere long my dame to see
That solemn VOW may make and seal fvit
tears; N1a,lf-F
> A holy vow as changeleBs as the ptItby year
r As ChanseleSs as changeless can possibly b..
Even ~ the dead that slumber under the sci
. As ehApgeless. as the glimmsrinx shadows {
the past,
v Those that have for eternity's sweep their a
chors cast ~
As chAngeless as the psEt by bitter shed tesI
!, Those tina: have been shed far back ID sneie
year. - '4t ~
1t she'll only come ba'k and promise to
a mine,
On her heart thh VOW I'll print. 1t shall be
in sign.
OF my unchanging, unceasing fidelity
ThrOughthe ceaselesS ages OF vast eternity |!
p, In this passage ne are utterly 10
l. in the magnitude Of his thought
10 Every word is pregnant with son
Iv stupendous conception, too big +
= birth. In his ehivalrous gallAntry
almost vies with the dauntless Ok
Cahoty; in his fiery, untamed imai
=. nation, he rises almost to the sublin
ty OF the poet feathers. Lord Byr
re- isn't circumstance, nor Is ev
>. Shakespeare IN II. But praise OF IL
passage from the writer only detra,
from its IrarscendenG uniquens
. Tue writer will venture his opiniC
" the opinion, however, that The coupl
"As changeles. as the slImmerI4s shadows
herast,
n. Those that have for eternity's sweep their
ly choB cast"
~ is as unlike Longfellow, or Byron,
~ Shakespeare, or Milton, as the males
70 mountain is unlike the unroman
;" plain. II is extremely doubtful il =
" living critic would say that any
these older poets ever wrote such p'
'ry. 1t is simply beyond criticism .
~ ~ ptaise.
Now the bard Of Watauga procst
be in = most convincing argument
show why his lady.love ought 10 ct
es sent 10 be his. The argumen
on follows:
~ "For, NO woman ever sat On = queenly thr
ro Till she owns and rules household other o.
So She can never bslk in the sphere Of her q
- shine
" Till she unfurls ser her owR household
IN ensign.
he don't care what station she wsuld In life
eupy.
~ She would be to others bsholdsn Ell she die
In On others for favors she would have tq dep,
Is While she nisht have abundance. and to lie
And in quest;oa her character lis siten cAlle
leu Innocent as an ange'-sy dudes she 10 bls
ballsd;