The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11
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! from the sounding sea, AZ Wsn oe scribe the meter of each beauty peF- vaded verse as write in cold ink or tne convolutions of a rose when It's roseate splendor only waits to be plucked and given to the waiting hand bearing It's own record of loveliness. Here is marvellous portrait. we can fit it. to several of the faces that great painters have left us of famed beauties of old: II well could speak tos her had a mind " Learnedly speak with Arab eioquence; But eloquence to her would be unkipd-- VII before beauty is impertinence. Her brows are like an angels, put her
 Are like some devils fallen from Par adise
 sTis a strange pardox of Heaven and Hell;
 Pondering on such face the angels
 felf.n
 MT. Le Ga1lienne In his preface in- forms us of what 3 @Dfrcin" is. a col lection of fancies in verse which we English speaking people might call a garland or 8 treasury, He tells us much of Persian laws of rhyme and meter. unlike our own. He prefers to rendered here fancies of Hafiz into Eng glish lyric fun for the pleasure of En- glish- ears, rather than to give them us in a stiff imitation of Persian poets. whose measures new and unwetcone to our hearing would seem but bosh. Finally. while I have kept as closely as deemed necessary to my original, my aim has been to make English poe | ltry--rather than joyless shadow of a great classic
 The Odes as the poet of today rem ders them for us Is no shadows, no ghosts of ancient song, they are alive, l redolent of the just unfolded rose, | breathing with young lives ecstacy, puIsipg with fresh Springtime airs. l Hafiz Is not the name. so. MT Le Galiienne Informs us; but he tells of l the poet, meaning .Ope who can rectte the Koran" corresponding somewhat to our Doctor of Divinity. A degree held ! by many a Hafiz immertalized by that | one The exact dates of his birth and death are lost, but It is considered that he died. an old man. not later than 1891. Thus he was, as We may easily compute, contemporary with Glanced
 In. school. of theology founded at Shiraz for his benefit by his father the vizIef Kerwened- din Hafiz lectured l upon the Koran and recited his own
 poems at his pleasure '"rhe orthodox Persian, l believe, writes MT. Le Caliienne. regards the Dircin in much the same light as the orthodox Christian regards The song or lSoIomon' Thus many loved the beliet
 that Hafiz, when he sings of love songs | of Love of God. when he sings of wine I tent he sings of Inspiration. Reading MT. Le GaIlienne's rendition does not | further this belief, his readers readily
 accept the odes as he gives them thus: .
 .'whatever mystical meanings may lie beneath the surface at all events I N. ..-,,-er.- <,ff r5affx gaefn easy to un- derstand, and if they should have 3
 secondary signifieance, most or us will. I think, be content to take them in their primary aspect as lyrical ex. l premus of the joy and sorrow oi I earth"
 inc hook open at one which again sings of the glory of New Spring which lheayen be praised, is with us once again, and today:
 To. rxe good news for you-vehe Spring
 The blended graip. is green for one l And ali is piping sweet and busy wing
 E. where."-
 The FMiry GodniOther-in-Law. BS Oliver Herford.e A volume ot whlmsi i eaIjties. A, laugh in every stanza' apC Il oftener two! A merry suptte ". .rq I plays about like Jack-o -lan I eeL' psl.
 bobbing up brightly where. least ex pected. 4,,, | There are dozen or more of thes' humorous conceits, each one delicious
 .gFhe Fairy odmether-in-law," be
 ing the modern story of Cinderella though married. is niaybe the bright
 est sf-
 "The Claims That Failed" shows sat
 isfactorily that even serpent lsn
 wise enough to know what to do witt
 bird on bonnet.
 'sThe Corner in CIrls," Is quite dra'
 matic for we have a Prince m1asquer
 cess, curls. upon which golden Yealtl
 'Pont Morgan" has made corner.
 The .quips- and cranks. the fashinS \ sailies; the merry scintillatiQns mus
 be read instead of written about ant most of them will bear a second an' .ar a sixth reading, which Is mor'