The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-11

ana diWays say. In, .et my name &c seen
Upon the pages OF the 'Mercure Fran
No. thank you. Plan. be pale and be
And make call rather than write
Prepare petitions, have mysei. presented.
No. thank you. No. / thank you! No,
But-siag,
Dream. laugh and go about. alone and
free;
Have eyes that see things clear. and voice
that rings,
And i you like. wear your hat wrong
Fight for yes or moor make poem,
Work without thought OF fortune or OF
Fly 10 the moon in fancy. II you wish.
Write not. word that comes not from
your heart,
And sun be modest: tell yourself: My
Content yourself with flowers and fruits
with leaves
II you have gathered them in your own
Then, if BY chance you sain some small
success
No tribute money need you pay TO Caesar,
Ana all the honor is your own
In short. scorning to be the cEnging vine.
When you are neither oak nor made OF
stone;
Mount not so high. perhaps. but ali alone.
While he and lie Bret talked, the cadets
warned Christian that Cyranos nose was
a forbidden topic. which Christian took as
a reflection on his bravery. To prove his
stamina, a moment later. while Cyrano
told tue cadets about MS rout OF the one
hundred the night preceding. Christian
prompted nearly every line with some al
fusion TO the nose. With magnificent con-
troll Cyrano kept his hands off the in
suffer. but finally Christian was too In
sistent, and Cyrano III a rage ordered
every one to leave the room. But in an
other moment his great wrath was mas
tered by his greater heart, and he en-
braced his handsome rival and offered to
help him win Roxane. The cadets sneaked
back, expecting to see Christian annihilat-
ed. but they discovered that one might
actually speak 10 Cyrano of his nose now.
One boastful coward who had earlier re-
fused TO breach the subject to Cyrano
then drew attention TO the forbidden topic
and received bow on his own nose for
reply.
Next night (act 81 in square before
Roxane's house, Christian came TO plead
his love. but his witless tongue could only
stutter II love you," and Cyrano. pursu-
ing his pledge, took advantage of the dark
ness TO initiate Christians tones and make
love in his stead. underneath the balcony,
to his divinity above in the moonlight.
Most sweet were the words he uttered as
lovely as his face was unlove.y. What
will you say?" asked Roxane, and he with
passionate pleading replied:
Every word
That rises TO my lips. In cast them all
Before you in heap. with no arrange
ment-
I love you'll am smothered-I am mad
love you'll am faint-it is too much;
Your name hangs in my heart like beifs
tongue,
And evermore, Roxane. with love I trem-
BILE,
And the bell swings. and then your name
rings out,
And everything you do lives in my heart.
Pursuing his amorous rhapsody, Cyrano
thus exquisitely describes kiss:
A kiss, when all is said. what is it?
An oath sworn nearer by; promise made
With greater certainty; VOW which seeks
To make itself more binding; a rosy dot
Placed on the ~ in loving; It's a secret
Told to the mouth instead of to the ear:
A moment Of the infinite. which makes
A sound like the hummirg of bees wings;
A greeting like the sweet breath OF
flower;
A way To feel the heart beat for space,
And taste the SOU. moment on the lips.
Cyrano's eloquence, his passionate love-
making. won, and Christian climbed to
her and took the kiss which the unloved
lover had so skillfully won. Poor Cyrano
in the dark only moaned:
His feast of love where ! am Lazarus,
There reach me in the dark some crumbs
from thee;
But stiI j feel my heart has something
gained
Since on these lips where Roxane now is
caught
1t is the words l spoke just now she kisses
They were interrupted by u monk. sent
by TIE Guiche. who earlier in the evening
had been trickily encouraged by Roxane
because she wished to cajoie him into
keeping Christian and the cadets home
from the dread siege of Arras. Roxane
hoodwinked the monk. and he went into
her mouse to marry Roxane and Christian,
while brave. generous heartbfoken Cyrauo
remained guard before the door. The
first conner was De Guiche, and Cyrano
entertained him with a fantastic fiction
about a trip TO the moon, delivered as If
he were a king just fallen rom the heav-
ems. 1t was a daring but artfully con-
Quoted rise and the ill-favored sutton was
kept at bay till the ceremony was per-
formed. When he discovered the trick he
revenged himself by ordering the cadets
TO Arras. thus separating Cyrano and
Christian from Roxane.
Iaahind their intrenchments at Arras
tact ~ the cadets Jared Ill. but even stary-
ing Cyrano wrote daily letter of love
for Christian to Roxanc and took 1t
through the enemys line to post. Unable
TO bear the separation. she came to visit
her husband but was caught in the I'm
trenchment just the enemy was about
tan that his graceful love and his elo-
auent letters had made her love him for
himself alone his mind and character not
his looks "a at first. The handsome dolt
had wit enough to see that what she really
loved in him was what Cyrano, unknown
to her, supplied. and he plunged madly
into the battle, 10 be brought back few
moments later the first victim OF the en-
emy's fire. Roxane, in her grief. told Cy-
rano how great MIND ner husband had.
how great "a poet he was. and he kept his
friends secret. though he knew 1t was
himself she loved.
Fourteen years later. one autumn even
ing while the crimson-iippcd leaves
winged their flight from branch 10 earth
in convent garden by the River Seine
TACT -, Roxape learned the secret OF the
generous cheat, as Cyrano in the dark
carried away by the reminiscent passion
Of his own poem. read by heart the letter
which he had written for Christian just
before he was killed Cyrano had been
feiled by hired ASA ssin while he was
on his way tn pay his weekly visit TO