The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-05-29

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not only to this region. bns
whole world. The farther :
the wider becomes her he'd !
er her depth, the more powas.
force, the larger the towns !
or the fields. and the finer j..
nourished by her.
So it is with the great man !,
BILE origin. In his early Life ~
and hardships he is of little !,
lance to his neighbors, but
passes, his great deeds and vo.s.
come obvious and undeniable ! !
people and to the world, he Il 49,,
ar the object of contempt and :.
but is honored and venerated :
But this is not the end of his NJ.
ing glory and renown. for bis -
Is recorded in the histories q, . /
men, and his memory is held ss.s I
more and more by each suecs.as L
generation. In the words Of c,,.,' i
IAN educated man stands, as II vs'
in the midst of a boundless arss,,
and magazine, filled with all the v..'
ons and engines which mans skiu
been able to devise from the ear,,.. /
time, and he works, accordingly m, |
The strength borrowed from all NJ |
ages. How different is his STATE 4.
stands on the outside of the sto,,
house, and feels that its gates NM
be stormed, or remain forever clo..,
against him! His means are the eor
monest and rudest, the mere vm.
done is no measure of his strensts
A dwarf behind his steam engine ma,
remove mountains; but no dwarf win
hew them down with a pickaxe ana
he must be a Titan that hurls item
abroad with his arms"
In this image of a Titan, Rober
Burns presents himself, with no great
er incentive TO knowledge than dwels
in a poor Scotch peasants hut. The
mountains of obscurity, ignorance and
poverty were hurled abroad with BIZ
gigantic strength; his own hands
fashioned the tools with which he
worked. He was born poor, and bon
to remain poor. All his life he fought
a hand to hand fight with povert,
from the deepest obscurity, without
help, without instruction. and without
a model-with only his spark Of IA
lures fire" he fought has way in the
heart of humanity. Some may CUES
ton his right to be called great On
the ground that he did little. but Is Il
little to voice the emotions-the ideals
of the common man? Is it little to
have gained the name of ''the poet Of
the unlettered human hearth" A brave
Mausoleum shines over his dust and
more than one splendid monument
has been reared to his fame, but far
nobler is the admiration which lies en-
shrined in all our hearts.
A true poet, the man who brings Us
face to face with great ideals; who in
creases our sense of individual re
sponsibility; who seeks to raise the
level of our achievements; who gives
us nobler loves and nobler cares, i
the most precious gift that can be be
slowed upon a generation.
Shakespeare, compelled by poyerty
to leave school at the age of fourteen
received his education at the hands
of nature; his real teachers were the
men, the women and the natural innu
ences which surrounded him. From
stage-hand he rose to an actor; IRON
an actor to one of the greatest VIII
ers the world has ever seen. HE \
the genius of English literature; ns
is the one personality in modern DIS
tory known to US; he is wise without
emphasis or assertion; he is strohs
as nature is strong. This man Of men
was the luminous chief of a band q
poets whose subject was man. D
the voice of the whole civilized worn
priceless Shakespeare's name Is ln'
first in all Observation-Disclosures
fancy, and knowledge of men-ano y
stands unapproached, and seenlnsp
unapproachable.
The world moves so fast and new
phases of art succeed each other VIII
such surprising rapidity in the pres
ent day, that to many ears the nan'
of Jean Francis Millet may have q 70
mote and antiquated sound. A peas
ant by birth and education, he has u
ready taken his place among the ciass
les, and he stands supreme among ~
contemporaries as the first painter y
humanity who gave expression
modern ideas in a noble and endurlhs
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