The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-21
FROM ''BLUE JAY"
Loyal to the Club IL She Has Not
Written Much.


Written Much.
Dear H. L. c. Friends-WhIle I have
not written for the page" for a long
time, I have been loyal to the club in
performing the duties of an Office until
1 was superseded by another. did not
find my duties at all arduous. but II
required some time. and I never yet
have found anyone that could invent
time.
To all new officers 7 extend congrat-
ulations and hope your work will be
pleasant. L sent a. few copies of the
constitution and bylaws and applica-
ton blanks to the corresponding secre-
tary a short time ago. I hope they
We're received.
1 should like very much to have been
one of the party at the counting Of the
votes. am sure I should have enjoyed
it, for I have had the pleasure of meet
ing our recording secretary and Sap
pho" and 1 can assure YOU I esteem
them very highly. I had the pleasure Of
meeting several Of the II. l.. c. members
while in Chicago attending the fair.
''Aranmore.'' you are first person have
heard speak of the worlds fair as being
little" I am sure it was very large
in my eyes. I spent six weeks there
and should like to have stayed longer.
However, 1 could not resist the tempta-
ton to go back and see 1t close was
theT only three days the last time
I nave been engaged in teaching the
young idea how to shoot ever since the
second week in September, and as it is
no easy task for me to concentrate my
thoughts on any one subject, and eS-
pecially so when am teaching. 1 shall
not write on any subject now. Hol-
I realize
they were holidays, for l was in the
school room all except Christmas day.
the results OF being in a runaway and
having to dismiss in November for a
week. 1 was very thankful, however.
not to have to dismiss longer, for II was
a very narrow escape
"Sappho," my brother who was in
California IS visiting us this winter,
but will return in the spring.
Maud Maple" my sister was mar
ried in December.
win send a poem Of thirty-eight
lines from thirty-eight poets collected
collected by Mrs. II. \. Deming of San
Francisco. Cal. 1t is said to have taken
her a year TO collect and arrange them
Why all this toll for triumphs OF an hour?
LIES a short summer man a flower.
BY turns we catch the vital breath and die,
The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nign.
To be is better far than not to be.
Though all mans life may seem a tragedy;
But light cares speak when mighty cares
are dumb
The bottom is but shallow when they come.
Your fate is but the common fate of all;
Unmingled joys here to no man befau.
Nature TO each allots his proper sphere,
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;
Custom does often reason override
And throw a cruel sunshine on fool
Live well how long or short, permit to
heaven.
They who forgive most shall be most for
given.
Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see
it's face
Vile intercourse where virtue has place;
Then keep each passion down, however
dear.
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear;
Her sensual SHARES let faithless pleasure
lay
with craft and skill to ruin and betray:
Soar not too high to fall. but stoop to rise,
We masters grow Of all that we despise.
O then renounce that pious self-esteem:
Riches have wings, and grandeur is
dream.
Think not ambition wise because it's brave.
The path of glory leads but to the grave.
What is ambition? It's a glorious cheat,
Only destructive to the brave and great.
The way TO bless lies not on beds of down.
How long we live, not years, but actions
tell:
That man lives twice who lives the first
life we'll
Make, then, while yet We may, your God
your friend.
Whom Christians worship, yet not COM
prehend
The trust that's given guard and to your
self be just;
For. live we how we can, yet die we must.
The authors I will give in the order
in which the lines are given: Young,
Dr. Johnson, Pope. Prior, Sewell, Spen-
ser. Daniel, Sir Walter Raleigh Long
fellow. Southwen, Congreve. Churchill,
Rochester Armstrong, Milton, Baily.
Trench. Somerville. Thompson, Byron,
Smollett. Crabbe, Massinger, Crowley,
Beattie. Cowper, Sir Walter Davenant,
Gray, Willis. Addison, Dryden, Francis,
Ouarles Watkins, Herrick, William
Mason. Hill. Dana. Shakespeare.
With best wishes to all. l am.
BLUE JAY"