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


The midst OF that beautiful and touch. 4
ing passage where the poet was in
in the hope that in his wan
behring's in pursuit of his flying
"Purevirtue" he might perchance
"come in contact with her electric
streak"
From this point the poem proceeds
as follows:
"But where can md the circle that leads to
her hearth
Could she not that to me by intuition impsrtS
II she should, then to her will be anEel-true,
And would do for her what no oAs living can |
do.
Surely there are Iueh emotions In lover hearts,
That 60 glimpses Of thoughts to each olhSr i'm
part
Like the Christians anchor that's within the
vale,
Whose bark is driven hOmeWArd by heAVoa's
lovely gale.
For that enotioAal streak oilOvs thsnIll search
II / ever on It satisfactorily perch,
|
Ha, ha wou Id not then DO haply sstisnedY"
"The circle that leads to her heart"
is a piece OF imagery unspproached
by any of the other poets 1t is evil
IDENTITY identical with her electric
streak" and shows his wonderful YER
sstility of expression.
Then in declaring that If she should
"impart" to him that circle "by intui.
ton" he would do for her what no
other living man could do, he seemp
to purposely glide into obscurity by
emitting to say what he would do,
leaving the reader in . delightful
state Of mystiication and uncertainty,
He thus stimulates the readers sarios.
lty and interest to the highest pitch
-. and then wlthholds the least satisfac.
: ton. In the concluding lines OF the
E above extract the poet presents a novel
q and pleasing figure in alludiug to
himself as satisfactorily psrching on
Chat emotional atreIk OF love-" evi.
IDENTITY still referring 10 the "clectliC
streak !" and then in the line follow
c ing he calls 1t magic streak bv which
n he fain would be electrified, which
t proves beyond doubt the CORRECTNESS,
the writer's Interpretation OF these
somewhat difficult passages. But
what we should most admire in the
poets genius and poweris his unerrinl
y fidelity to nature and 10 human ex
!" perience. The above quotation faith
- fully depicts the common experienc,
- of all young men, widowers, and bach
" elors alike, touching the electro. magic
~" properties OF the opposite sex. Ever.
:, eligible women is endowed With thi
- "electric streak" and he who allow
himself to be caught in its circuit, O
70 ''circle" as the poet moro aptly puts il
is certainly gone-er.
In speaking Of love the bard trui
" says;
ne ut pasies through the very gllded palace doc
- And then takes Its mate from the howell OF II
poor;
m 1t oft alights on the deiormed, manned Al
wa blind,
And sometimes takes those that are deficient
mind
" He might have added with ecu
nc truth that love quite as often rendc
lie. its most level-headed victims woiul
lis deficient in mind" But like the Il
by DR.. Holmes, the bard is OF too kind
er. a nature to indulge in such cynicisu
We Again he says:
e. bat lovers always take these that are fair;
Those that do the bright jewels OF intel
ms wear.
20 But sometimes on the rose.buah there's 4 pie
o ing thorn
10 Like the one that did blind Milton ruthles
nd hornl"
yer Here the poet evidently, though p,
be haps reluctantly, makes an uncomp
he mentary allusion to Millions wi
ra. who was said to have been by
-. means the most amiable Of womt
But as to whether she did luthles.
horn" him or not, as is here charg,
the great epic poets biographers
not fully agree. And again, in
oy- 'cribing the nature Of love he deligl
the reader with the following char
ing lines:
If loves true object 10 by the spirit selected
And is always By the same influence direct
led Then ills as quencnless az that that can not
quenched,
10" And out by q soundlsss ocean II can not
drenched."
ng. We all know how water beha,
ton when thrown on a red hot iron, or
q ducks back. Neither can be quen,
:, ed or drenched as long as there is
in the iron or oil in the feathers.
it is with love. Let it be we'll heat
and oiled and 1t becomes equally I
al quenchable and undrenchable. 7
and bard OF the Watauga now turns aw
me. from the discussion Of love and az,
ida apostrophises his absent darling thu
ng- ITO me 1t would be more pleasure to call
,aat myown
Than to be crowned kinR--eceptared ON oml