The record-union., 1897-08-22
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY Memo"

Some day. when you have toiled for her
awhile longer, and gathered reasona-
BILE amount of worldly goods for her
protection and comfort, she will place
her hand confidingly in yours in the
presence of witnesses. With her
willi' she will forswear liberty. Her
wistful eyes will be raised in tender q,
love towards yours as she makes the
greatest sacrifice of her life; for that
is what it is, as you will appreciate IL
you stop to think What will those
eyes see in you? A hero. She thinks
you are one, if she is loving you for
yourself alone; and 1 am presuming she
is. You are to her a knight, a cavalier,
a hero bold she glories in your
strength or your kindness, or some
quality that makes her esteem you
above all others. Though a hundred
men pass before her in review, they
are waived aside to their own dispar-
agement, when she compares them with
you. Just as ardently as you admire
her does she admire youi But is she
only dreaming of your heroism and
goodness? The dream is one so beau
tiful for you to consider, that to awak-
en- her to different reality will be cruel
pain. If you are shrouding your real
character and deceiving her as to your
motives, try now to open your soul wide
to the qualities she loves. Let them
rush in until you are possessed by
them, so that she may never have be-
fore her eyes the sorrow and distress
of an illusion. Be what she thinks
you are; and while she will still re-
main the more powerful to mould and
the greater in heart chow trueD she
will nevertheless look up to you as
though she were the lesser. What a
sweet offering of incense to your proud
and happy spirit that will bel Decep-
tions as to goodness and nobility un-
til both become habits Of the SOUL is
worth the effort Of carrying on, and
when fully attained will make the life
together a growth in the sweetest
graces of humanity.
MY KNIGHT
Why do I love him, my noble Knight?
Is it because of his visage bright
OR his strong right hand and his bounding
Or his costly garb and his worldly wealth?
Is it because of his wooing sweet
Or the gifts that he filings at my favored
! Is it because of the noble race,
Whence he boasts his lineage proud to
trace?
All no! 'tis because. for the love of me
He has cheerfully donned his panopIy-
StalWart and brave beyond compare,
but gentle and kind to his lady fair
Clad in an armor of truth is he,
With the stainless shield of purity
And a sword unsheathed to uphold the
right,
That's why love him, my Knight, my
You smile at the old fable about the
greedy dog that dropped a bone in ord
er to snatch at its reflection in the
water below. Beware of similar fool
ishness! In the present state of your
feeling you admire the beauty, the
good sense, the modesty, the attractive
ways of the woman of your choice You
look up to her and she can raise you
in all that is worthy. The progress
of 1900 years is being enjoyed by you;
the ages during which woman has
grown, under the influence of a virgins
son, from a creature of utility to the
Jew and creature of pleasure to the
Gentle, into a radiant help-meet that
draws out of man more fully the divine
possibilities of his nature; these ages
are epitomized in your love. The gain
to you from her devotion is, in a meas
ure, like the gain of the world from her
dear sex since the Christian era. Just
eao VIC CApeCl u6I IllIuGHCG TO Keep the
world continuously progressing, so may
your gain keep on growing as you come
to a fuller knowledge of her o, greedy
one! Is this not enough? You are
a better man because she loves YOU
before marriage. This is the sub
stance now in your possession. Will
you forget it all and rush through the
gates of love as though the Creator
had from all time planned to form this
particular woman for your particular
pleasure? If you do, the shadow alone
will be yours. The substance of love
is her entire nature and it's effects on
you; the shadow is physical pleasure
indulged in for your own sake Here
is the wrecking point of many a fair
ship of marriage that has started joy
ously over the sea of life The polar
star of united helpfulness is forgotten
in the presence of passions hickerinsr
light. The joyousness comes to an
end, the act of love now lowered to
mere instinct rounds out the full de-
sire, Increased Indulgence calls for
further indulgence, sense becomes the
all-in-all, and then-last and worst
stage of all-the heart goes wandering
anywhere and everywhere seeking
physical pleasure, and it becomes al
most matter of Indifference whether
IL De one woman or another that fur-
mshes the pleasure. The fruits of
PARADISE Will then have changed in
your grasp to the ashiness of Dead Sea
apples. Evil within you will have fri
umphed over good and the corpse of
love be gibed at by the demon of lust
y
see the young life as a stately ship riding
OAtI the sea like a WatpT-bird eIf1iper
WllI She, wait till the levin of passion is
shed, - He -
Or follow. loves pole star so pure over
head?
Careite;Ssly trimmed. light hand on the
The pillows and surges of evil days fill
She drifts to the depths that are dulled by
the dead;
Though the pole star of love shines so
pure overhead.
The helmsman, half blinded, his fears ever
frightening,
Is waiting the flash of the furcated light
ming.
yainiy he trusts by its fire to be led.
When the pole star of love shines so pure
overhead.
Shattered and scorched by the guide he
The helnsinan lies dead on the vessel i'll
fated. -
Alas for the victim by passion misled
Who trusts not loves pole star SO pure
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