The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-18
DR.. i. Il. Kingsbury.
BY DIR. T. B.. kINGSBURY.

DIR. L. Il. Kingsbury.
What hell II is in suein& long 10 bite;
To fret thy soul with crosses and
with cares.
To eat thy heart in comfortless dis
pairs,
70 fawn, TO u TO wait, TO ride
to move.
To spend. to give, to wait-to be un
done
: graceful English writer Of the
last century wrote OF Sponsors visit TO
Sidney: We have stood beneath
sponsors oak in the beautiful park
of that remarkable place, ana dream
ed Of the hero and the pOet-both still
SO young. yet with the halo of i'm
mortality on their front, seated in
'~colloquy sublime beneath those muir
muring b~oughs."
Possibly two men OF such most un-
common endOwments in youths young
spring never before or since sat to-
gether in such true. deep sympathy OF
soul under the outrageous trees be-
side the flowing, matchmaking wa
tiers, or to quote Milton. the poet after
Spenser. best furnished TO be drawn
upon for illustration i'll writing OF the
other master of lyrical effects and
poetic melody-"the liquid copse of
murnurfng streams Spenser later
old the richly furnished Raleigh Of
his plans, hopes and litera-
~ projects. Raleigh was young and
buoyant and gracious. 1t was TO him
that Sponsors first written poems Of
the "Faerie Queene" that was to make
the poet immortal were
read. Raleigh was then a
Captain of the Guards. and was a
kindred spirit every way. The same
English writer above called upon de-
scribes the prolonged association there
between those two men of original ge-
MUS.
Among the various friend
ships and mentions recorded
among great men there is per
haps none on which we reflect with
such interest as this: how delightful
is it to picture to ourselves the Ariosto
OF England and the Colonizer of Vir-
ginia seated together on the banks of
Mulla, exchanging thoughts bright
with immortality.
Amongst the cody shade
OF the green alders, by the Mullas
shore
There is a very error per
petrated even in 1907-over three
hundred years later-that Raleigh
"~coIoniZed Virginia." He had nothing
whatever TO do with jamestown, now
being celebrated, for he never saw
Virginia, and never sent a ship loaded
with adventurers II colonlsts to that
Colony. 1t was Raleigh who brought
his enterprising spirit and adventure
Gus courage to bear upon North Car
Dina. and Roanoke Island was where
his ships gathered. and where Virginia
Dare. the first White child ever born
in all America, came into life. Spenser
calls him the "Shepherd of the
Ocean" [ may mention here before
turning to poetry, that Spenser
~-,+ "a.
book he called "A View of the State
of Ireland vas a product of a man
with no little craftsmanship in his
makeup. It describes the Celtic pop
ulation, and gives US wise hints for
civilizing the War-like race I never
read the work. but know of its repute
among Englishmen Of learning.
Before entering upon a brief con-
sideration of the great poem let me
detain you for a few moments with
his other poems, great enough to have
given him fame if he had never written
a line Of the very long one that re-
mains forever unfinished. Sir Philip
Sidney, to whom the shepherds Cal
endar" vas dedicated, as L stated, did
not particularly admire 1t. He thought
it had some poetry worthy of atten-
ton, but objected to the forming of
his style to an old rustic language
he did not approve of. But the poem
met with very ready approval gener-
ally. and because it was clever and
Astounding. Some critics like Harvey
n Sidney held hat English poetry
shOuld conform to the metrical rules
of classical language" But Spenser
did not hold to this view, but partially,
and not many people knew aught of
classical writer's like Virgil, Theocri-
tus and other ancient authors. The
poem consisted of twelve Eclogues,
and led "all of the best judges to rec
ogniZe the exported poet He wrote
much verse in addition to the great
poem. among them complaints" the
"Epithalmium," THE Four Hymns"
Mother Hubbard's Tale and many
others. including nearly an hundred
sonnets. In all, his shorter poems,
would make a volume of some $50 or
800 pages of the ordinary type used
in printing modern poetry.
The reader will find a goodly num-
Der. perhaps four or five hundred, of
quaint, curious words, some first used,
no doubt by the poet, and some of
them have passed into the language
of our day, and are incorporated in
dictionaries and used in daily speech.
Such words as object admire, old,
askance, attempt, and scores of others
now in universal use We're SO novel
and unknown as to require later a
SIOSSdlS IOI TIC IedQClS VI SpcIl-
ser. The 'Pastorals" or "Eclogues''
were twelve in number and applied
to the twelve months of the year. He
took for models Virgil and Thocritus.
Prof. Salisbury. of Edinburg Univer-
sity, a distinguished English critic Of
sense and learning. thinks highly of
them, and says they are "delightful."
/ quote: Already the unmatched
poems of vigorous allegory, which he
vas to display later shows in great
pieces as The Oak and the Brian
He sees in them the double COM
mand at once of the pictorial and the
musical elements Of poetry on which no
English poet is Sponsors superior
if any is his equal. He praises highly
also the "Amorette," and thinks it
viii RAM with the best of Sidney's,
and hardly below the best of Shakes
peare'S. This refers to the Sonnets.
Since preparing the above. I have
found statements in one author I must
give. Poets alone were his pall-bear-
ers. He left two sons in ireland
named Sylvanus and Peregrine, I dc
not know II this IS correct. His wife
married again. and in 1903, three
years after the death of the poet. 1t is
also stated hat he left descendants
in Ireland who were living there long
after his death. He has been praised
from Shakespeare to Maccaulay by
the great poets and essayists. The
Ioets beyond others appear to love