The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-21


Unlike wit. Il Is hard to quote sometimes
It runs a sparkling, almost unnoticed.
sfreamIct through whole chapters and
books One cannot put bis hand upon
say. VI il here" Ike the delicate
perfume Of a flower. It can be appre-
ciated and felt, but II cannot be isolated
ana labeled For instance, as one reads
Flopfs Me- he cannot help smiling. yet
r. there not a pathetic side to the pic
ture7 can quote part OF the poem.
"oh. what a pain is love,
How shall bear It?
She win inconstant prove,
I greatly fear II.
she 30 torments nv m.rl
That my strength fRiletn,
And waivers with the wind.
~ I ship saileth.
Please her the best may.
she loves. still to Eainsay; !
Alack and well day,
Phfllada hodts. me
Fair maid, be not 10 coy.
Do not dsdain me:
am my mothers Joy,
Sweet. entertain me.
She'll give me when she dies
All that IL ntttne--
Her poultry and her bees
And her geese sitting.
a pair Of mattress beds
And q bag fun OF shreds,
And yet for all this goods.
Pnii'ada nouts me.
IT cannot work ana sleep
Love wounds my heart 70 deep
without al reason.
mn 70 pine away
With grief and sorrow.
LIKE to a fattcd beast
Penned In n meadow.
shall be dead. fear,
Within this thousand year;
Aud all for very fear
fhiliada houts me-
or. again, take Holmes Last Leaf"
with Its mixture OF piayfulness and pa
But now his nose II thin
And II rests upon his chin
And a crook h IN his back
And 4 melancholy crack
In his laugh.
Il know II Is a sin
For me 10 sit and grin
At him here,
But the old three-cornerad hat
And the breaches and all that
Are no queer!
And n should live 70 be
The last leaf upon the tree
In tho spring.
Let them smile ~ 60 now
At the old forsaken Dough
Where cling"
This r. true humor. and II can never
lose It's freshness and vitality.
WI ana humor in the best literature
are found always together. N wit Is the
sparkle and bead uron the surface 81 the
wine. humor ~ the de'teate favor ana
aaq,n, s which time can only improve
rIs s III, y sne electric atmosphere" says
iish authors the atmosphere OF dry hnmor
~ always present and the resh saynas
snt seldom; In others there Is constant
!, l. an old saying. hair ,ru. s.rnar.
that The French have wit but little hu-
NOR. White II would not ~ safe IA "a
serve this dictum and say that the Eng.
ssn have hamar .end little wit, 4 Is per-
greater In English literature than IN any
other, and thai the English. despite 4
wen-known gallery Of wags. are not 4
conaruous. fss whole fonnaattan h. ~
Illogical But tho English are pre-e,y,-
inensiy logical people there " a neces.
sly upon them % be logical Bnt the
represented as a fas man. and vhen AZ
nome. with Everything running sfno0fhfv
ne loves 20 laugh long and heartily. His
,saShler = not always perfectly refined
herse-play and az times NJ can IL an.
sod Of lhinxs az they are ana H. secs
Quietly ;hs stratum 81 rs.so, sna 81 eass'
m2n human nature that uuAerises air
isins. Eresesaue and indlcrous in human
Erxnsh humor. like rnr,tsA n,era,a,.
IN ~ fsoa~rn sense aay s. sals Ia hsve
Nonfnft Nr~t with ChANANr No wAs ~.
hfss 81 EnslisAnsen TO write with hss eve
apcn tl.e reiect and Ne ssstchesi noe AMY
the ss'ssnsis hui ne saw 10 the heart
~ thinss fse was keeniy alive Is tss
luttcrcus Vic Il SAE1rslnsaa eaarsa as
snsrsssa;ssis bar es asvsy fails 10 rnaks
~ see beneath the l9dlcrhuA ext<r4sr
ne true state % ssinss Egss ,slsv 49,.
lures 81 she monk ard friar ara nagtal,ar
Tor tnStAacs, A. arsg aFaW8e uniy ventta
merrisaent hot 81 ignsah u dswa. assn
- - tnsueer skillfal,v Intends Il shalt
what shame these as~n Nara "a snsf.
EFofessiens fass fer Instance, tAn So
teFe e shs srisr
''fts was an easy man - give a s.aa,s.
hecaase Ne wished g gaia g9ed ait.
var ante peor order % hav~ r,v.r
sxa tran man has sean w.l
lls knsw Al snss ne msa was rssiss.t i
Nor May q nan - hard - Ne 81 hearf
lis sanses weea though Re may sessiy
rhsretsgs lnrts~a AZ we-slAx ana q,
Let arr give silver To TIE roor friAr.-
What a 1eligAsnsl ffli q xeplal ara
&p4fkstrs hun1r hews through the naa'
ale * the Cock Had sAe Foxl pen caAn.
ucfsar and restslesa hiss wifs a.
&Nrtebt3 With a master h4na The tals
begins with a dream fresn wh,eh Chant.
es@sf asake8 IN horror.
Ny dca I dreamsa that I, was n such
plight
Just aow ma, even now my heart Is
sore afraid
dreamed how that I foamed up and
Down
Within our ward where seassa seas,
LAKE. 70 a aeg, who weald have made ar
rest
Upon ny body and weuld have made me
GeAA
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