Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1913-01-17
LET HOPE LIVE.

LEI tDfE LIVE.
1t viii be cold day for life
when hope leave, the rainbows.--
Then the color goes ont from the
bands Of cheer and a dark path is
left across the ieaden clouds. 1t is
day when the daughters Of music lay
aside then dos bic pipes Of peace and
joy aud when spec'er shadows slip
from point TO point along the terribly
ing pathway of living. But VIII. in
dulge in figures of speech to describe
condition that should never Be 2
Why enter into realm Of phantasy
in the wake of distressing idea
Hope lives in the rainbows. 1t has
its throne in them. 1t gathers the
CLEAN of the sun and spands it in the
seven prismat'e rays across the blue
Of heaven. 1t bends to the earth to
touch the wide horizons. II is
irangbt with much Of the dreams and
visions of youth and is respondent
witt the regalIa of victories.
Yet h he does leave the rainbows.
1t 'ioes p. IS from the skies of lives.
1t does mingle witt the moisture
from which il is created and pass in
to the steady drip of yapor. For a
rainbow is nothing at all. 1t is but
refracted light Hope is nothing at
all; it is bat the fraction of ideas from
things that form the associations Of
the mind, the images of the mental
view. Yet the things that are not
often pu 10 naught are the thicgs
that are. For all sentiment is intan-
gible, and all inspiration is immateri-
al, and all anticipation is unsubsta l.
tial Why then deride the rainbows
Of youth. Why delde the sources
Of hope in any life. For these are
as influential and fitted to convey
optimism and energy as is the electric
coil to produce the factors of force
and Of light.
1t is fine thing that life contains
so many that do not submit to the
scalpel of reason. 1t is an excellent
thing that art has been created fIom
irrational processes involving pig
ment and light. 1t is fine thing
that tue lines OF beauty uuder the
growing tool Of the sculptor are not
the lines that are formed in pure
geometrical designs. 1t is fine
thing that the t thrills of pants wave
and toss in spiral disregard of the
mole principles Of the curve. 1t is
a fine thing that the fxity of form
and tixity Of range are not unalter-
able in the working out of life.
Hope is vagrant, and it is tenu-
Gus, FIR reaching and full of color
What description for all that is
best in life. To be vagrant, to be
free, to be untrammeled. Yet to be
under tie law of obligation that
makes necessary the best expression.
To be tenuous, to have long and de-
licicus continuity, to be full Of tInts
hues, to be glorious in color. Such
material for life's experiences means
enrichment It means delight. 1t
means con.panionability. Il means
exhuberance. 1t means vitalit -
It means So cry much Of the things
that are honest and of good report
among men.
Yet hope eomprehends all this and
more. No one has ever successful,
pictured or sculptured an IMAGE or
form for Hope In the effort to do
it justice must be- futile until life
shall strike out tom its deep st notes
the most magnificent melodies that
the daughters Of music can produce.
Far, after all, hope is the melody Of
life; and the bands of the rainbow
but attest that the harmonies OF
nature and life after storm are re-
established. Let hope liyel Let Il
abide in TIE rainbows. Pitiful the
person from whose life the rainbow |
has departed. For when hop ileaves
rainbow it becomes faded and lost.
Let who will mock, but the most in
spring and substantial pledge Of joyl
aud gladness for life is that which
comes in the dreams of youth when
the rainbow spans the skies with
perpetual colors.