The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-02

Zers for the release of Ulysses from the ~es Of Cslynso
The angry objee;ons raised by Posedon god Of the
bodies further trouble for the hero The act shows
the wanton and drunken orgies sutors for peneope
hand who strutng and registering about Ulysses palace
all conempuous Of the feeble protests the son. Tcie
maehns These scenes depicted with passion daring
but the true touch OF the hand is apparent only when
the sweet and faithful Penelope appears on the rooas
scene. This dainty and lifting lyric sung by minstrel in
PRODUCES the change Of theme.
set the sails for Trey for Troy has fallen
And Helen cometh home;
O set the sails and all the Phrygan winds
Breathe us across the foam
o set the sails the golden West
Il is DER, the bitter strife.
At last the father cometh the son
And the husband to the wife
And she falls upon his heart
with never spoken word
Here Penelope appears addresses the minstrel in these
exquisite lines dewy with the unshed of hope deferred
Cease minstrel cease and sing some other song
The music hoated up into my room,
And the sweet words Of it have hurt my heart.
Others return the other husbands but
Never for that sail on the sea line
Never sound OF oars beneath the moon
Nor sudden step beside me at midnight
Never Ulysses Either he is drowned
Or his bones lie on the mainland in the rain
For time the elamorous and fawning suors intervene
creating new cause OF pity Tor the seadfast wife but the
scene closes with Peneolpe standing alone in the twilight
and stretching out her arms for ons who comes
Where art thou husband Dos thou lie even now
Helpless with coral and swaying the sea sways'
Or dos' thou live. and with magic held
q
y ct NC are bound more close than 10y charm;
BY hreside plans and counsel in the dawn
Like gardeners have watched growing child
Thy son Is tall, thou wilt be proud of him;
All IS IN order; by the hre thy chair;
Thy bed is smoothed but these hands have le, It,
Thou kno~est the long years have not quailed
True TO vision, stcadiast 20 a dream
ludssolubly married 70 remembrance;
But now / am SO driven faint at last,
Why must my beauty madden all these wolves
Why have the gods thus guarded my first bloom
Why am ] fresh why young. IL for thee
'0rs- gffse q - pt heel ..L,
Come. take the broad az one mighty leap.
And rush upon this bosom vth O cry
Ere us too late. at last last in,tsnt-cOnc
After this strain exalted devotion it is rather difheul,
to zap enthusiasm Ulysses when he is shown re-
ceiyns the caresses OF Calypso and making effort
from the island until the gods Yet when
The spell removed he begins long home aud for
tho earthly voice that breaks earthly ills and his reply
Cabpsos offer OF delicious immortality" is noby con-
would not take life but on terms Of death.
hat sting tn the wine Of being, salt Of its feast.
To the suggestion Of psr bese'ting the homeward way
Ulysses replies I'd down hell If he'll led home
The line like many others in the play IS meant to have
prophetic force The whole OF the second devoted
Ulysses journey through Hades the least effective
part OF the play believe Mr. Phillips would have attained
better results here he had chosen other incident of
Ulysses "Opations But even this act is hunanized in
large degree by the hsros nyncibe longing clasp his
wife IN his arms and 10 Ithaca again.
All God that l might see
Gaunt Ithaca stands no the surge
lashcd and streaming rocks and sobbng
The screaming gull and the wildAying cloud
o far OH the smoke Of my hearth
To smell FAR cut the eebe of my farms,
% spring alive upon lr frecipces,
And hur thc singing spear into the air.
With superb power he nostalgia dominates the
third when Ulysses shiparecked finds himself hrs
home shore and the bidding OF Athene looks
upon the old familiar scenes:
Non holy winding path where last ] kissed
Penelope, who toward swayed and spoke not
came there down the slope most lugeringly.
And turned by the myrtle and turned and turned
Goddess. ] for the great tears.
There there the very peak which she climbed
Waving farewell with helpless band
O veriure 10 the that's home
0 light upon be land where born
Again the deep human touch is felt in the where
Ulysses his and faithful servitor His entrance
his home the guse OF ragged beggar way IS
outed by the upsta suors and his final confounding
the perfumed rsbbe dramatic but quite heroic
could wish, Here especially could wish
less Of the gods and OF Penelope But of the dramatic
unity and poetic exataon OF the production there be
question, its simplicity of language is Of its
power Repeatedly the lines Tennysonan heights
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