Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-22

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naught, then he. with a clean soul
could so up with the host when the sea
gave up itH dead, and not stand accused
by the engine lying in frGgmente. rusted
and slimed on the fioor oil the deep.
No one thought OF him, be bad little
time to burn on social repartee," none
for inventions when warned by the
doeierential vnlve gear" TO leave in.
ventions alone or stay 10 port with
them. lie found 1t difficult to refrain
from swearing at tho oiler when he
swlled the caps. But all Of them to-
gether did not stir his Joul as did the
damned iiiits' of cabin passengers.
with their little romauces printed and
bound in little hooks, the only kind
they understood. 1t ia thinking OF those
that makes Kipling burst into that
sublime passage at two dozen lines, be-
ginning with the petition for man TO
sing the song o. steam.
The crank throws give the double bass; the
feed pump throbs and heayes
An now the main eccentrics start their
quarrel on the sheaves.
Her time, her own appointed time, the
rocking link head bides
Till-hear that note P--the rods return
VIKINGS glimmerin through the guides.
clangin' chorus goes
The temptation to quote the whole
passage is scarcely to be resisted, for it
needs TO he read in its entirety. One
other quatrain one must take:
oh for a man to weld it then in one trip
hammer strain,
Till even first-class. passengers could tell the
meanin' plain
But no one cares except myself that serve
an understand
My seven thousand horsepower here Eth.
Lord They're grand They're grand |!
Eth. my lords and gentlemen, isn't
this grand? How many times have not
you taken the thing nearest your heart
to the altar, saying: 'ThOn knowest,
Lord - We know that many of our
readers, like MuAndrew, have little
time to burn on books when with siren
voice the parts of their engines are
Keeping time to the music of the
spheres. But here is a book, the first
poem that ever rose to the heights Of
your calling and made your thoughts
vocal. 1t will make you better crafts
man; IL will stir the blood of your list
less boy turn him from the crowded
professions and swing him into the
| line OF mechanics whore character lie a
necessity, and where intellect, skill and
! honesty will win fortune and fair fame.
1t will thrill your wife with pride ard
teach your lady daughter that the
safety OF mankind lies in the hollow oil
the oily hand.
This is what Kipling teaches, Kip.
ling the marvellous young man of few
years back with his rollicking, reckless
ono was about to say Goddess Bar
rack Room Ballads. But were they
Goddess? They have stood the acid
test; they are sung wherever the
British soldier pitches his tent
And when the dusty column checks an6
tails.
You should hear me spur the rcarguard tC
walk,
he Gays of the banjo, the jolly little
poor relation to the violin, his songs
spurred the rearguard to walk towarr
DOngola, and men are not spurred L
battle by anything but the inspiring
The truth OF the matter is that geniul
marks every Inns. 1t was genius t.
seize on the spirit OF the age ana SHOW
its oneness with Genesis aud the Law
OF Moses, The Victorian age was latel,
characterized as one of material pro
gress and moral and intellectual de
generacy. With Shakespearean daring
Kipling calls these pessimists damned
lifts, and then on the steam pinioueC
horse OF commerce lifts us up to tn
Morning Stars that sing in unison witt
all the ages
Leaving nature and man in relation
ship to it, and man 10 his RELATIONSHIP
to his fellow man, he takes man ant
nature in their wrestlings with sciCnc
especially with the transmission Il
power. He draws a Thousand compari
sons; new metaphors taken from new
applied science adorn his verse.
railroad inspires him. 6hips are "swif
shuttles of the Empires loom tina
weave us main &c main" Deep SO
cables are "bind white sea snakes,
more marvellous than any naturs
dwellers of the ocean bed, ''tbe dun
ssa levels thrilled to hear = The tee
graph girdles the world with whisper
Of sweet or solemn import Apple
science is an instrument to give man
! wider choice OF destiny, for the larg
uses Of the soul that rise above all th
cont-ivings. Seeing how these might
! primal forcea submit to control an
, service, how does man dare become les
, amenable to discipline than the thin
that served him?
Two-thirds Of the book ia filled wit
: these tributes to modern maryels, IN
Seven Seas" being the waters that OF
' compass the dominions conquered
the English. The ships weave main
+ main, with their hourly greetings {
ports OF call, aud beneath the swi
D Bhuttles
: Men talk to-day DER the waste of IL
= ultimate slime
! And new Word runs between, whisperin
8 let us be one ~
:, How can men any longer he anythir
y but brothers when they hold daily col
d verse with each other across continen
and seas, and rsparation may folio
swift on the heels of injury.
s And are there no miracles in the
Q days? The code do not come down
dwell with mortals, water 10 not turnt
! to wine, nor St. Elizabeth's lap full
y bread turned to ruses to save her fro
j. the wrath OF her lord, nor beauty pr
8 tected by the binding of peeping Tom
= hut time ana space are annihilate
darkness is no more. Listen to th
. from the poem called 1.-THE Miracles
y Earth gave her chosen men of strength
(They lived and strove and died for mel
To drive my road a nations length
y And toss the miles aside for me.
% You are the modern workers of mir
e cles, ''ohosen men Of strength" solvii
u beside your engines and 10 your wo
10 shops problems that make a life of
years of to-day longer than Methu saleh
70 nine centuries
Nor is Romance dead. In the noe
re called ''The King" Mr.. Kipling tie
how many times Romance has died
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