The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-21


viii find both doctrine and music, from a
man who knew nature and had hearkened
to the pselod1es of the world
1t is. ,n some sense. mournful that a
man Ike Eanier with his large outlook
on the immensities and his steady attack
no more than he did Born with, ever
conscious. of. genius. Iaboring indie atigab-
Is always hopeful-what pity that he
never did bring forth a MASTERPIECES.
Which he never did.
Yet iet US thank him and remember MIN
for what he did accomplish Passing by
MS excellent modernizings OF such famous
old stories as Froissart's Chronicles, the
Aorte d'Arthur aud the Mablnog1of--s
/ which books should be in every boys II
brary--and passing BY his. Boys Percy.
! English Baliads--passi by all these.
and also has iaboEed and justly forgotten
to his own rial, original and delightful
! vivid and vindictfve ballad, THE Revenge
I of HaufiSh,' which needs no quotation
sre II vas hS Eno wsoite t 1sd MaTsrss
! recognition OF power and beauty Of the
southern sWaulps. 1t was he who wrote
| how vain such quest was for such q seek
! er. And It was he who wrote this Ballad
4 of Trees and the Master:
Into the WOODS nv Master went.
Clean forspent forspept,
into the ooos my Master came.
Forspent with love and shame;
I But the olives they were not .sisnd 70 Tim;
The thorn tree had a mind to Him,
NNhea Into the woods he came.
out OF the woods my Master went.
II And he was we'll content:
OsIt OF tina woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame;
When death and shame would woo Him
From unter the trees they drew Him Lass;
Twas on a tree they slew HIM last,
When out Of the woods He came,
.yyhats can be said of such lines, save
Il that Fhey- are utterly foreign to All Sh5
New Nestanents 5 picture and idea. and
been Mt Eesl 2,0eo or 900 or 800 years . 90.
i(lSo. Log exfn 100 wears ago. Their con-
n eetts--f0fSsAch they aFe-do not coincide
ySftls-tllsse e Cowley or Herbert II Is
pDt tx rfet1t as ticaluess which is so novel
II ~ f7ss seifse of q Il nature responding 10
ana ftEt3E4ftg mans soul, that strikes US.
t IL irnpresses US as in some deep sense
true.
One more of his poems may be given
: since all are so slightly kItcwn and this
3 one because he said of 1t that therein Il
! have begun to dare TO give myself some
. have allyVed myself TO real words
! SMILES and meters. with such freedom as
: desired The rosuES. conyinceS me thai
: car do so now safely The title i.
Special Pleading cog
: Time. hufry..nly Love TO me.
: j Haste haste. Lovsst not good company
: Here's but a heart-break sandy waste
: = fWixt now and then. why killing hast
!, Were but. dear Time. for thee. for thee
ION would that. ] might divine
Thy name beyond the zodiac sign
!. Whercafprth our tinaes-to-corne descend
! He eailed thee Samaritan, change I
Now Time sounds 50 rnuop more fine:
Sweet sofnetine. ny fast 70 me:
/. Poor -Now-time sits in the lonesome ire
) And eaiIs, When witt thou come, {
5 And. pleads across TIE waste TO thee
Coos moment, thai. givst him me.
!. Thou'ft be this heavenly velvet time
n When Day anu Night as rhyme an
= Sit lip TO lip dusk-modeetly.
;, / Or harry some noon afar
: % LIES top bud mkt rose ami star,
!, How ever can thine utmost sweet
! Be star cons ufnnlate, rose-comp9ete,
y Til thy rich reds fun opened are2
a Well. be it dusk time or noon-time.
r. l ask but one small boon. Finle;
Il Come thou IN night come thou in day
IL 4 care not. tfcare not; have thine ow
e But only, but only, come soon. Time.
n These are verses .wftchs remind strongl
- OF Dome needing as much study as HI
and gratifying as few tastes as his; BIZ
e for siielllas do enjoy them affOId-ng a ric
- SVeai for sidney Lanier, the MAJ
~ we. can have no words of too eulogist
I'd praise. For Sidney Larlier, the poet, y
IN can only. say that l4s saw the high mar
- and missed it; but that in his missing
= did better than most other nleT-f
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