Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-29
ETRY TEXT SERVES FOR
Ne OF LOVES TRAGEDIES
ttrice Fairfax Discusses Mis-.
understandings That Arise
Among Dearly Loved Ones.
MAN NATURE is CONTRARY
ny Stumble and Blundcr When
They Arc Fairly Aching to Please.
Trim IrOnics Expressed in
Thomas iiardy's Verse.
HY BEATRICE fAIRrAN.

ain on tho windows. crcaking
doors,
With blasts that bosom the green.
d l am here. and you are there.
Nnd hundred miles between!
h, werc it hut the weather, dear:
On. were 1t but the miles
at summed up al! our severance.
There might be room for smiles
ut that thwart thing bctwixt US
twain,
which nothing clcaves or clears.
more than distance. dear. or rain.
snh longer than The years
Tho poet has n way OF indicat-
In "a Few words what you and I
sc long paragraphs TO say. ono
IS and TO sot us cropping for the
IN our own souls 10y which we
~ interpret the message Of song.
whenever hear amy one say: i
nj Ike poetry. It's too hiEhJrow."
feel sorry for tn. person who has
cssion In his own soul.
3The same thing which makes
sncing the form OF self.cNpression
una In the earliest history OF the
&C swings humans also TO song.
$ rhythm. Rhythm is round IN the
FAINT and In the infancy OF the
&c. Hhythm Is normal thing "A
imitivc thiuE-a thing 10 which
iura can't htip responding.
And poetry ls Subiimn,ion Of
ythm. 1t swings and sways and
|,nccs in the treczc like Il flower
;ie bit OF loving zephyr.
! might talk about This linden
Itely and you'd believe me or not
YOU responded 10 my general
OF song proves II pretty clear
WHO hash; sat In the same room
|ith some one she loved. longing to
~ word ihat should bridge - gap
enhancement. knowing bitterly
the while that anything she
|. Id would be wrong would serve
ply 10 make matters worse? VINO
|isn't watched love drift out Of his
re because he lacked the magic
mako clear the something which
|nulh 1rlng him into sympathy with
to one he loved?
Who hnsn', found himself inevi-
,bly saying ;he wrong thiuE or
bling the wrong thiuS every time
e made move. when all the while
+ ionGed 10 pleas. aomc one nnd
ood ready 10 make any sacrifice
ito the lie OF beloved?
We all blunder and stumble and
utagouizo ana annoy wh,.. We
iitiy ache Ia please. We All ind
nrs"ivcr lrritntcd to the point OF
when We don; want to
= nerves come between Us and come
a., "ho is. as wc know, trying 10
sake US happy
Human nature ia contrary and
II sets M birr!cfs where
e desire only to hnG INC walls down
nd perfect community OF soul with
"Hr doesn't understand me" whim-
crs tnc woman lie simply won't
Ike the trouble TO please mo. IL
'oU'i be so easy Il he'd only give
lc what want Instead OF what he
links ought 10 have
II can't understand her" Gays the
lan. II do everything TO please her.
NJ nothing do is right. And She
ever sven tries 10 az IN WIKI my
That's l.!c--aili one Of l,fe's mos,
onstantiy recurring tragedies. That's
unan nature and one Of It's i.m!ta-
un..
Ana now that the poet ana have
ich said II to you, which means
iDst 10 YOU, the practical, everyday
.Drds OF prose, or tho lIttlc song
iich makes even o: aordid. every
~ tragedy :aCcted. shining thing
beauty;
Thomas lIariy's verse Expresses
o's D' ny = .L"'''9t
'onics. Ana because II makes an
Ely thing beautiful and wistful and
athletic II makes us KOndcr ~ the
Misunderstanding isn't bcarahlc. the
lasn worth trying TO bridge, and
nc beauty which lies back OF the
ain worth recapturing. To scold
nj lecture people FOR breaking up
,eir homes at tho first sign OF dis
ension may he 10 irr!;ate them into
DING that very thing. To lie, song
"a; recalling better days" is 10 re-
.pturc perhaps the flavor and charm
nd lure OF those days.
I wish that every couple on the
crgc al the grim thing known as
separation might read Thomas
ardy's verses and reconsider.