Evening star., 1925-06-08

| in any form. except as literary Curl
| osities.
Surveys portrait of his wife was
not in blank verse. and was all the
better for it,. Taine. in his History
of English Literature" calls this
word picture the simplest and truest
we can imagine"
| 1t stands out from that crude age
like a lily out of a black bog. Hope,
| Ii appears, speaks to Surrey while
he Is alone:
For assure thee even by oath,
And thereon take my hand and troth
Ihat she 10 one of the worthiest.
The truest and the faithfulest.
The gentlest and the meekest of mind
And II that lore and truth were gone
In her 1t might be found alone.
For in her mind no doubt there is,
But how she may be. true. / wis:
And tenders thee and all thy heale,
And loves thee even as far forth than
AZ any woman may man:
And is thine own. and SO she says:
And cares for thee ten thousand ways.
Of thee she speaks. on thee she thinks:
With With thee she eats. with thee she drinks.
Viii With thee she says Farewell mine own GH"'
To thee she says fun oft Good night!"
Her comfort veal. and all her cheer:
And tells her pillow all the tale
And how she longs and nd plains Afa for ff,s thee
And says Why. are thou so from me:
Do l not wish thine ease and resti
Seek not how may thee pleaseY
Il be she for whom thou carest.
E1r Is whom 1San in Int torments so thou farest.
Where I remain thine own most dear,
Thine Thine own most most true true thine own most Just
thae
As thou. l think. dost care for me;
And even the woman. she alone.
That is full bent 70 be thine own"
| Surrey gave a tremendous title to
| that simple expression of a woman's
| love, "A Description of the Restless
| State of the Lover When Absent from
| the Mistress of His Heart" 1t was
the fashion in his day.
Taine calls IL the exact picture of
deep and perfect conjugal affection. -
! such as yet survives In England, such
as all her authors have represented,
down through the line of Greene,
Beaumont. Fletcher, Webster. Shake.
speare, Ford, Otway. Richardson, De
| Foe, Fielding, Dickens, Thackeray.
/ He might have added, on this side
| of the Atlantic, Cooper, Longfellow,
Hawthorne. Holmes and many others,
! who have held true to the picture of
! married affection
To hear some talk and write. old
and young, through the centuries
| one might imagine that all marriage
was stormy sea, all divorce pro
ceedinSs, etc Happy married life, be-
| Ing quiet. has not attracted the atten.
! ton OF those seeking the spectacular.
Therefore. II is with some JOY that
| we turn back through the centuries to
! Henry Surrey and read his happy
poems of married life. If he ended
! beneath the headman's ak, It prob
! ably was the fault of the age, not his.
| Surely the real man shines forth
| from his poems. that is. the best part
OF the real man. Maybe he did not
act as he wrote, but who can? All.
| that Is entirely q different story,
In this glad vernal season, let US
| leave Surrey giving US his 'Descrip-
| ton OF Spring, Wherein Every Thing
Renews Save Only the Lover"
The soote season. that bud and bloom forth
| With green hath clad the hill and exc the
vale.
| The nightingale with feathers new she sings
The turtle TO her mate hath told her tale
summer Is come, for every spray nov
The hart has flung his old head on the
pale: "
| The buck in brake his winter coat he filings
The fishes hete with new repaired scale:
The adder all her slough away she slings:
| The swift swallow pursueth the flies ann ale
Inc busy bee her honey now she mings.
winter IL worn that was the flowers bale
And thus 1 see among these pleasant things
Each care decay and yet nay sorrow springs