New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-31

But hadst thou hearing in thy heart
To know what beats in mine,
Then shouldst thou walk, whererr thou art
In melodies divine.
So warbling birds lift higher notes
Than 10 our ears belong;
The music fills their throbbng throats.
But silence steals the song.
We may find room also for the two stanzas {
when First l Saw Her:
When first ! saw her at the stroke
The heart of nature in me spoke
The very Landscape smiled more sweet,
Lit by her eyes. pressed by her feet;
She made the stars Of heaven more bright
BY sleeping under them at night,
And farer made the flowers Of May
BY being lOVelier than they.
Softly down where the sunshine spread,
Dark in the grass | laid my head;
And let the lights Of earth depart
To find her image in my heart;
While through my being came and went
Tones Of some heavenly instrument,
As if where its blind motions roll,
This world should wake and be soul
These lines well illustrate the level OF Pro-
ressor Woodborry's style and thought through
ont the volume. While neither is renarkabie
for originality or strength, the volume as
whole has certain dignity none too common,
as OF work done conscientiously on pIaHe "a
seriousness and high ideals.
1t is good to have another book Of rhymes ny
the author Of The Battle Of the Bays MI.
Seaman is If the school f Calverley ana J. IA
$ that il t. say. he is one Of the very small
band Of English humorists whose work III verse
deserves t. be rescued from the oblivion OF
periodical literature. His new volume In cap
and Bells" is on the whole as good as ITS prede-
cessor Perhaps the poems are most OF theh i
little too long. Brevity - precious IN the ar
. comic rbvrninc Put Jet US take the gifts
the gods bring and be thankful Mr. seaman IS
not after all to be taken too seriously 10
enjoy him W. must take him as We mo NM
W.. have only gratitude for the parodist who can
thus hit IF the absurdties Of Mr.. Meredith IN
his contributions to the Song Of French HIS
tory:
Rooster her sign.
Rooster her pugnant note. she struts
Evocative amazon spurs aprick at heel
Nid-n0d the authentic stump
/ OF the once ensanguined comb Vermell as "ihe'
With conspuent doodle-doo o,, Now,
Halls breach o the hectic dawn OF !oh Ne"
Year,
Last issue ~ I" date
[ or quiverful Fate -
Evolved spontaneous. halls with tohan' uuHP
The spiriting prime o the cashed carilloh peal
Ruffling her caudal plumes derlslNt 81 Scuts, 49,
inconsistent how she stalks an iinihar'eSS'"S
absurd
Bird.
II is Mr. Meredith 10 the life. MI SWIM
burne. Mr. Austin Mr.. Watts Dunton, ME-
Stephou Phillips and other writer's OF the ume
come in for good humored chaff equally drolL
The imitation OF the Laureate's Jubilee ode -
too long to quote intact, but the opening sanzas
may be given:
The early bird got up and whet' his beak,
The early worm awoke. an easy prey.
This happened any morning in the week,
| Much to-day.
The mok- uplift for JOY his hinder hoof;
Shivered the fancy poodle freshl! Sh"rh;
The prodgal upon the attic ROOF
Moved TO the morn.
His yirilc note the cock profusey blew;
! Th. beetle trotted down the kitchen tong;
The carly bird above alluded 10
Was going strong
All this If coursr refers to England isle.
| put things were going across IA" deep;
! IN Fgvr,t-takc the case-the crocodile
/ Was sound asleep
The temptation to quote should be. we sup
Nose yyithstooi but before taking leave Of this
.,,usine book We must give at Least part of the
imitation Of Calyerey. The Plant ~ Dying
Humour" To- which the author was inspired by
Sir Lewis Morriss sad conclusion that laughter
was dying out
know moi, what the caus" should be
That Huuour mclts my heart more;
That nothing now induces me