The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18

Its past starvation. and Its future doubt.
To pant. past harmonles sublime, for one lost
chord.
To be cut OF from home by foods too deep 10 ford
To stretch out eager hands none sees, nor hears
when hailed;
To yearn to catch some light that never was or
failed.
To md Din time to lose, One all In allan die.
RHAPsoDY.
We climbed. We two. the Mountain wrapt IN
Peace"
The bene diction OF the night lay on the sea:
The pent up Love OF Life longcd for release.
And rapture deckrd throne for you aud met
The storm swept ocean Of my Past grew calm:
Stiffness and rest lay swallowed at my feet
Nights unseen choirs beg all their vespcr psalm.
While evenings acolytc swung censers sweet,
And We were there! We two. alone. unseen
Above life's lie escaped from duties cold.
We two alone save tor the stars serene.
Those friends who keep the secrets they are
told
Then, when the hush had deepened into pain.
You broke the GREATNESS silence with song
So Infinitely sweet In It's refrain
wished each note were Infinitely long.
Then from Ife's utmoS, deeps surgcd Wild Desire.
To havel To hold To make that moment ours
To make It Yield US NJ. nor dare expire
TIL we had plucked the eternal Passion Flowers.
Pressing my lips to yours. bade you sing
The very heart OF song into ms soul
Tho stars above our heads began to swing
me CfdR on Wnlcn we ledneu DtRan 70 roll.
Borne on the heaving mood OF bliss we went.
Needless OF cloud, that warned fierce Passion
Gales.
Which soon ragged round u.s. and. their fury spent.
Forced us TO hoist our conscences for sails!
With which we made what way we could to land.
Back to the ports OF SANITY and loss.
To Dutys shores where wise meu understand
Iife's law Is sacrihce-ts key. the cross.
As to the Rev. Mr. Adams's st Dry Edith
tho nj in IL a hn ia
extremely Jealous Grace, the dream
soul, the affinity. the mystic being is the
other woman. The genius is referred to
in the Brief" as Paul.
birthplace of Mr.. Adams. The first chap
Observation-Disclosures mi Molten links always
in time found cooled into most natural and
obvious parts of his own planetary system"
He speaks Of telegram announcing
cha os; .Grand motherdom paralyzed! The
twill ght of the gods Of order and convention
treated to a pyrotechnical display making
night hideous.
rye gods! we powers what godsend. this.
to the complacent schools Of the prophets
keeping their 'told-you-so' sat tip Of tongue:
early life, in which he declares his family
fail to understand him and his wife in her
mad jeaiously utterly and cruelty miscon-
strues Helen is the heroine OF this affair
and Ia a type of the beautiful women, Of all
OF whom his wife is Jealous
He describes visit to Paris-meetings
and misundersta ndings there galore, with
innumerable rawlings and pessimistic COM
ments, concluding that chapter with this
announcement:
'Palpablest Of all facts at any rate after
that voyage. was this: ! had discovered
an Individual! Individual being (barring
q miraculous, improbable outbreak of love
and justice among those who loved him)
in imminent peril of perishing outright, or.
at the best. OF prolongng his life by the
impotent. outra ged child. An abnormal
form! Was ever task like this?'
The "Individual' being himself, he goes
on to show in a chapter devoted TO "the
sins of the Fathers that al his weakness.
strength, temperament and passions may
be traced to his parents.
There IL a natural body Mr.. Adams
says, "a natural body-cay feet lin the
mud) warm heart lin the sunlighD all pos
sible head Tin the rapturous, rare; upper
feet-with glee il hecks of the stirred-up
mud stick heart-high on one, The natural
body groans and strains-a brute and a
soul together
After dealing at length with the mat
tendencies and unions thereof. Mr.. Adams
again takes up the thread of his story of
Understandings, jealousies and afflni-
ties In dwelling upon the biting letters
OF marriage he writes,
What God hath Joined together let no
man put asunder-but poor God. fancy,
not infrequently is wrongfuly charged
with Joining what is really the work Of a
sappy youth Of twenty-one. There being
no scandals at the ZOO, one not wholly lost
might 20 30 far as to ask II this be not due
to the fact that nature and the brutee are
loS at
We, higher animals having divorced our,
selves. from nature, tend divorceward
otherwise also. Monkeys manage. these
things rather better, But homo. being the
only moral creature, is the only immoral
being in a somewhat large and intricate
universe where there would be the very
Devil TO pay IL we could once get our con-
yentonalities and proprieties to control
the stars as they now control the parishes
'There are two certain th,ngs, Ih nI
nearly. all marriages are best und sasi ana 10
society! So there you are. Nature could
hardly have bungl led thus.
Conceive q pair OF utterly minimizing
Young innocents in the vague moonlight OF
emotional inanity. Mock heroics! mock
sexual instincts goading and Turing.
taken the bit in her teeth?" writes the
former minister. How happy were this
weary earth II 1t had never pecome heees i
ignore what universally exists.
when two souls are one no pronounce
ment by a parson or anybody. else makes
them more go and no absence OF pronounce
ment can obliterate the fact
After graphic account OF years OF
torture from the Misunderstanding and
jeaiousies OF his wife and others. Paul"
Ravs'
him like a trusting child The one who
knew him, had known him tthe inmost.
very HIM. from the first. On the edge
Of the abyss OF despair she net nun lace &c
out on spoken word The light brokei
Paul felt for the absolutely frst time IN
his life that God was justified in creating
him at all. Music yielded her secret. the
.tars stopped and confessed, the utmost
reaches Of his parched and starving life
felt the unspeakable benediction Of 0racos
pneness with him. Purity bloomed. BACK
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