New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

| Let US consider FOR moment their object For
| two such they may be that the very
| climbing CT the hill together small delight
| but every human effort which Is 70 be large IN
results must have definite aim And 50 we are
| told that they Up the hill TO fetch pail OF
| water We have already determined that the
whole work is 20 be taken n hgurative sense
| and so We may be that this line means some
| thing deeper than a pail OF water, For ex-
ample. water Is the emblem OF truth. and with this
| in cur minds. shall be far wrong n ass8Irn-
| ing that The author intends 70 convey 20 rs that
Jack and Ji1 climbing the hiIl-that is say.
devotinE their Hves-tO the gaining OF the highest
! truth or the highest good
And here the writer has skiIfuIly intinated &c Us
once more taat his words 20 be taken IN some
hgUrative sense. because IL Is not usual 90 ~
a Hill 10 fni water. Water naturally ruzs down
hill and he who would fetch II must go down hlu
after L. Il IS well leave the matter thus IL
! definite. We are assured that the pail q water
referred the object OF their quest and their
desire. and thar Is enough for Us Let each % -
who has his own great ain in lie interpret ths
passage out OF his own Imagination and the poem
/ viii thereu7on have truer meaning fer him than
/ II he were told definitely just what this pan o.
/ water was
A.. An friends II is easy 70 Be content 70 hold 20
1 our companions TO look into their smiling faces
| TO see our own hopes and own bright purposes
/ reflected there-as We 20 Up the hiH Faitntulness
/ one 20 another Is a simple matter while we grow
/ in prosperity while We draw nearer 20 the object
/ OF our desire while look I'D and feel that ne
! coming nearer TO the bending blue above Us
/ II Is easy Many jill goes cheerfully with many
/ Jack. and many Jack looks upon many q III
with JOY and pride. long as they both go Up the
( kill
But 1t is in adversely that fidelity finds its test
/ and, II Il lear that its proof The tragic
| grandeur OF this poem Is found IN It's third line.
| but IN the fourth comes the calm beauty OF rs
! close Many who rise together fall together. II Is
| true, but on, how often. when two have risen To-
gether. the one falls, while the other stands stl
/
But 1t was not 50 with jill OF the MODEST crea-
! tons OF the poets fancy since first Apollo snOts
This we sh 5I see a. The sadly sweet end Of ne
Inent which is its inevitable precursor Jack fell
! knew that b. aid not need 70 dwell uDon ms II
| well leave il for lesser men. while he passed 70
Yet j1s5 mere must s@n your es5snJ01 70 "a
70 volumes OF discussion. and 70 personal Dit
| OeT - vsfa- sor vvbiC5 ba - o. S-4-5 saV
that the opinion that he had not done so is held with
| nrnness only by such sO-cailed critics as look 70
| mere words. having not the imagination 70 IN
terpret the works Q: great artists with clarity and
| have the words broke his crown" Why should
| Jack have CROWN he was not king II ne
well a. in this poem Nor can We suppose that the
writer INTENDED 70 represent am as iegenaary or
he would have said IT, for he is not writer who
But, as ne have found the poem thus far 70 b
I a
Is consistent and Is sun fgurative- And thIs We are
| 70 suppose that LACK mad. n one or the most
had obtained the summit OF worthy desire Yet Ne
MS ISt = \. v ~ 80 -
employing themselves in their mechanical way with
the material Of scholarship. who have declared that
Jack did not obtain his pan OF water. merely on
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in express terusi as If he were not always fgura-
also take care not to make similar one az the
We know that Jack won MS crown. else hs
could not have broken it Yes. but We DO not know
which he started often he great achievsnents o.
life are not those which prehgured for ourselves
n me oegllllns Ut - a.s l5 - -
is not that for which looked. Let Us trust that
br5er m s6 mes ner man We had looked for il
our unknowing youth So We know that Jack won.
exactly what the pail OF water he has not
And is better that both these questions should
What We DO know-what il is essential for Us 10
knows that Jack Won his crown and that ne
concern Us The na aim Of his he Vas gained and
was blasted nd, Al yHe am % 1is IRE vas PASTE e
may De something quite other than the one which
beauty OF ne may be different from that was
Sno9sR ~ 81 os % rIr - Sunset and vet
roof though al Is peace and quietness none the
| Think. then OF the sense OF peace and gratituds
jim came tumbling after" No hero in the front
nae IN ySsr he Won his crown s5s saw hirn al
and break it Was this q time for her 20 hold her
self aloOf. 10 stand where he had fallen. 70 leave
him who had been her companion N prosperity, TO
be alone in loss and disaster Alas thus many an
| other would have done, But not jill She her
way and she did hesitate she did not falters
she did count The cost; she came tunbling after
| Friends have you ever visited the home OF cur
sister university IN Heidelberg Have you the
ruined castle there Have seen that great
from the main structure by terrific ex-
| plosfon living now az length the ground. but
! complete and perfect in its form n the days
when it stood and lifted It's calm head above ths
foresr9 And is its grandeur the because %
| is fallen? An. friends there things and there
| men and who grander IN their fall
than their greatest height. and jill one OK
! these None OF desires that his life end n ruin
/ yet ruin may be sveetsned by fidelity and
! true companionsaip. and the leaf after
| reading OF Jack and jill with little
pity with gentle syrapa thy. and IL may be FOR
/ some OF US almost with envy.
PUERTO RIC4NS FOR GLEN ISLAND
AIyndert starin accompanied by Professor Me-