The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-06

..-..wa .s-s-eS are az 4 harp where biz
Is~s break
..-sv az music. and the breezes shake
- -. .~.sfr seas a wool Of color and tone.
49,. ss.ss sweet music echoes like q
moan
~ stands heart and signs around
the lake.
w.evs. watching fsarfuliy. watchful
sake
! ssnse. weeps upon her emerald throne.
,ss< ocean breaking round thy senses
Shore
~,.eE rlaea song. as from the strand OF
-. ~ ne 10y. for thee the fell foe lay
r.n,s blinking snake around the fair
sis cirs.
-uru,sx 10 signs the enchanted sounds
that play
..ox,ra Inv lovely island evermore.
Theodore Watts-Dunton.
rs~ IIelne centenary. which has called
~,s 10 May euiogss;ic articles upon the
- by English. French and German crit
!. recalls hcx slowly bis fame spread in
= beginning OF the century, and how 1t
- broadeHed and widened In the latter
haB
Heinrich He.ne. poet. satir!st. philoso-
sksr. vas born in Dusseldorf December 13.
IN or 1852 Authorities have not been
sbs TO agree as TO the year. But the i'm
esrsan, point r. as he himself says. that
h xus born. Heine's was a complex ma
,uYe OF Semitic origin, his aspirations
src Hellenic: Of German education. his
e,ud gas filed with Gallo ideas. In the
soa Of this poet conflicting elements were
ssx xarrrg Arrogance and irony: pity
sad indignation eaprieious wit and roman
ia sonr. In an article i'm CosmopoIis.
Translated In the Litesary Digest. Edouard
Rod very happily illustrates tile peculiar
nature o. Heine's genius by . fairy story.
The good fairies approached the bed Of the
lssish merchants child and bestowed up
or hin Imagination. sensibillty. great tai
sss. and lastly, genius. Then s.so wicked
fairy said:
4 easnos take away anything that my
s.ssers have given. Bat. listen, Each
~ Of these gifts they have Sssde you
"a; possess in the highest degree They
Z hse given you imagination; you viii have
fsc much. Sensihiiity- again. you will
have too much These qualities will be al
rays manifested with equal force, and
since DO one has given you moderation
mediocre quality which IL little thought
q BIZ elves dancing In the moonlight on
Tie banks OF the Rh.ne--I declare that
ypa vii never acquire IL. Thus the pre-
esous Gifts which have been given you. In
stead OF being source OF joy. viii cause
yea Infinite ,orments. and because OF your
great sndowmenis you will be more IN
H. 49, Sd
altogether ignored"
ss Helne ON his deathbed came again
he wicked fairy. impioring bis forgiven
ssss, and eonfessing that TO her gifts of
excessive Imagination and sensibillty all
his sunsrlngs were due: and the poe, an
ssers her:
The gifts o! thy good companions would
have made Of me only a stupid blunderer.
ffssoloas being. happy but Insignificant
~ nsaied.ciion alone gave 10 those gifts
essf meaning; in copdeuining me TO suffer
thog madest my greatness. Without thee
! II weuld net have been "A poet; my useless
iaaxinsiion would not have run through
me gamat OF the emotion: my vain sensi-
My would not have extracted the har-
nonieus essence OK love and life. I should
never have written my little songs. Now
an about 10 die, but my songs viii Hive
5 They are there. around me- Iike a flight
g singing brsIs. Do You not hear them?
10 many young men they reveal things
saknosn. many young women VIII love
from age to age 10 listen to their music:
and even thosa Of mature years cannot
Bear iAsm Without reviving their dearest
Memories. II not this immortality well
sarta the suffering which thou hast i'm
posed on me- Once again there has
cane out az much eyil some good and be-
cause Of that pardon thee"
In England the memory of Helne has
sed down the bitter prejudice OF the mid
Gle Veteran period. when men like Kings
~ SAID Hene was a poet who might or
might BET he a genius. but who was GER
n'nly leper. Helnes hatred OF all
iasass English was intense. and he loved
Ted his irony upon the incongruitles OF
Ri'lsh prejudice. A philippe like the
nseving was not likely 10 endear him to
British hearts.
TIE mass-tha English blockheads. God
isfSive me- are hateful 10 me In my ut
nast @oal' and often regard them not at
% as my feliow-men, but as rnisAra bio
sasoFaa'a machines whose motive power
essossm, In these moods Il seems 10 me
~ heard thu whirzing wheel-work by
vhea lhey think. feel reckon. digest and
pssy. THEIR praying. ;heIr mechanical An
vash eh0rcA-ge.ng with the silt prayer
~eS under their arms. their stupid, tire
eNae sunday, their awkward pisty Is most
y 81 odious 81 me. am firmly con-
ssaesd thai disappearing Frenchman IS
arcFa pleasing sight for the Divinity than
trrzyirg Engishman''
u n-s The Arst volume % the REESE
aitsr' appeared ard Germany possessed
ass great prose writer Hclne's prose
MI q variety. 81 light and shadow
few pages re viii run the whole
aAai Of his powers. and strike every
we es thenght, mixing almost in the
sss page the dTcll and fantastic with
senior ard terrible. But It Is by
las fuch der Le.dsr" that he is hest
aSsHa 'oday~,hose singing birds thai he
ss@'a ABOUT him at the last. Helne Is
ssseVaily lyric poet. Ills most success
20 Poem Is q short swallow fight Of
fan ard rich ara beautiful. And
a English poetry thst ;he He.nesque
~seaee has been most fett beginning
20 tfoagh ana Matthew Arnold MANY
AssAsa poets have heen Influenced ~ tho
ses q The author - Alta Troll ."
fascination watch Heiue has extend
sssf various Engllsh minds of pecaliiar
'.sasF = possibly due 80 the originality
vitality q bis Attltus, toward beauty
vas al lntensc pagan. ana ,sa Glory,