The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-22
CHAPTER XIV.


Greece, nor Richard de Caffeine en-
peror of the United States, nor Fred
erick I. Myers governor of Florida
Tor life-is this, viz: Our dream NJ
nobility is shattered by the light of
the common day; we do not seem n
keep with us the fragile flower of the
spirit. The great music which we
know is playing somewhere now. or
mas been played-the long sustained
superb note that burst on the ear of
Fromethous the moment he flung
open the heavy door of heaven to
take the torch, a note like
An ocean singing to the sum-
THIS dies for u.s.. to it, for so long, we
are surd, are dull clods! What ora
tor have you heard, tell me, whose
great eye saw the states as persons
ike webster, who without effort
took you where New England. in his
vlgor, stood contemplating Lexington
and Bunker Hill and Concord and the
bones of her sons fallen in the great
struggle for independence that lay
scattered in every soil from New
England to Georgia? THE hurricane
of miracles blows perpetually," says
Hugo, and the intellect hurries to
perceive that it is true
But who realizes this? Where are
you, splendid brain and soil, who art
conscious under the. noon-sun that
you adventure, on little emerald
drop fallen perhaps from the balcony
OF an unimaginable heaven at the
time of which the Rig-Vedas speak:
Where there was neither aught nor
naught,
When there was neither death nor
Immortality,
When the Existing One alone serene
ly was"
Why can not keep the mood l have
at unfortunate moments reading the
poetry of Stephen Phillips, listening
to Francesca say:
81 have no sorrows of my own;
have but sorrow'd DER the pages of
a. book;
Sea perils or some long ago farewell,
Or the last sunset cry of dying
kings"
Or in Ulysses" casually turning the
pages, coming suddenly on a great
line:
IL
{ Preceded by the fragrance of thy
SOUL"
Or in the Ulysses of Tennyson-I
THE slow moon climbs,
The deep means round with many
voices,
Some work of noble note may yet be
DONE
Not overcoming men who strove with
Push OFF! and sitting we'll in order,
smite
The sounding burrows, for my pur-
pose holds
To sail beyond the sunnet and the
baths
Of all the western stars until l die
Or in the live oak grave yard at
Tallahassee, as the funeral of Chief
Justice Raney, in the slow afternoon
it not seeming worth while any
more to practice law! He is dead!
Life is beautiful and noble and dig
nified and interesting only when
ones self is beautiful and noble and
interesting to ones self; and most
priceless boon, probably, to mankind,
would be the achievement OF an at
titude which everyone might keep
from which attitude always she
would see himself as beautiful, noble,
dignifed and interesting.
One of the splendors OF Christian
ity is this ennoblement OF the lndl-
yidual unknown before the dawn OF
the everlasting sunrise over Nazar-
eth. but it is so difficult to erect
structure strong enough to hold UP
the beacon light of the spirit against
the nerpetual senseless pressure OF
the waves that run forever across the
sea of the commonplace in which we
find ourselves. Under materldi
civilization like this under which we
live. there can be no patriotism OF
the heroic kind, no faith, no beauty.
But a new day is about to dawn TOT
humanity Poetry and faith and de-
yotion are to spring again out OF the
seeds which lie sleeping in the heart
of man" Listen:
eve are not as we were. There is no
aspect p.+ ~
Of all things no pulse of heart or
brain,
No whispering of truths great music
To the inner ear, unaltered OF unsio-
rified! -,
The mere being OF lie IS nhe WINGS