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before they were quarrelling like a couple of cats and every time they meet nowadays they have to be introduced all over again i don t wonder at that at all said mrs is precisely the same kind of a person that george is and when they meet each other and realize that they are exactly alike and see how sort of small and mean they really are it their self love i never saw it in that light before said but i imagine you are right there s lots in that if a man really wrote down on paper his candid opinion of himself he d have a good case for against the who printed it i guess i should think you d have known mrs s device better than to bring those two together and under the circumstances i don t wonder they hate each other said mrs sympathy ought to count for something pleaded don t you think of course replied mrs but a man wants to with the other fellow not with himself if you were a woman you d understand that a little better but to return to and walter don t you think they really were made for each other no i don t said i don t believe that anybody ever was made for anybody else on that principle every baby that is born ought to be fragile please forward to this made for each other business makes me tired it s all over again which is good enough for an express but doesn t go where souls are involved suppose that through some circumstance over which he has no control a man was made for a russian girl how the deuce is she to get him that s all nonsense henry said mrs impatiently mrs s device i don t know why observed i can quite understand how a man might make a first rate husband for a russian girl your idea the notion of and if i know anything about they have to go chasing each other through the universe for after in the hope of some day meeting and it s all nonsense my might be and s your beautiful self but i ll tell you on my own responsibility that if i had caught hanging about your father s house during my days i d have the life out of him whether his hair was short or long and don t you forget it mrs mrs laughed heartily i ve no doubt you could have done it my dear henry said she i d have helped you anyhow but or not we are placed here for a certain purpose i presume so said i haven t found out what it is but i m satisfied yes and so am i now continued mrs i think that we all ought to help each other along whether i am mrs s device your or not or whether you are mine i am yours for keeps too said i shall be just as attentive in heaven where marriage is not recognized as i am here if i hang for it well however that may be we have this life to live and we should go about it in the best way possible now i believe that walter will be more of a man will accomplish more in the end if he than he will as a bachelor or if he married for instance who is so much of a manly woman that she has no sympathy with either sex right said you like walter don t you and want him to succeed i do you realize that an unmarried physician hasn t more than half a chance unfortunately yes said though i don t agree that a man can cut your leg off more or carry you through the more successfully just because he has happened to mrs s device get married as a matter of fact when i have my leg cut off i want it to be done by a man who hasn t been kept awake all night by the of his lately arrived son nevertheless said mrs society that a doctor needs a wife to round him out there s no that and it is perfectly proper may know all about the science of medicine and make a fair showing in but it isn t until a man is married that he becomes the wholly successful who confidence i suppose it s so said no doubt of it a man who has suffered always does do better henry ejaculated mrs severely remember this i didn t marry you because i thought you were a now walter as a young physician needs a wife i suppose he s got to have somebody to confide professional secrets to said that may be the reason for it observed mrs but whatever the reason it is a fact he needs a wife and mrs s device i propose that he shall have one and it is very important that he should get the right one are you going to propose to the girl in his behalf henry no but i think he s a man of sense and i know is now i propose to bring them together and to throw them at each other s heads in such a way that they won t either of them guess that i am doing it now my dear interrupted don t don t try any throwing you know as well as i do that no woman can throw straight if you throw at walter s head i may strike his heart precisely said mrs triumphantly and that s all i want then we shall have a beautiful wedding she added with enthusiasm we ll give a little dinner on the th a nice dinner we ll invite the	27
and the and and walter they will meet fall in love like sensible people and there you are i guess it s all right said though to fall in love sensibly isn t possible my dear what people who get mrs s device married ought to do is to fall madly in love but mrs did not listen she was already at her writing the invitations for the little dinner ii a successful the is to see the fish the treacherous bait much about nothing the invitations to mrs s little dinner were speedily despatched by the maker of matches and to her great delight were one and all accepted with as dinner invitations are apt to be the night came and with it came also the young doctor and the equally miss everything was charming the were pleased with the and the were pleased with the and best of all walter was pleased with miss while she was not wholly mrs s device to his existence she even quoted something he happened to say at the table after the ladies had retired leaving the men to their cigars and had added that m was the way she liked to hear a man talk all of which was very encouraging to the well disposed spider who was weaving the web for these two particular flies as for bliss walter bliss m d he was very much impressed so much so indeed that as the men left their cigars to return to the ladies he managed to whisper into s ear rather bright girl that henry very said sensible too one of those bachelor girls who ve got too much sense to think much about men pity rather in a way too she d make a good wife but lord save us it would require an alexander or a napoleon to make love to her oh i don t know said bliss confidently if the right man came along of course but there aren t many right men said i ve no doubt there s somebody equal to the occasion somewhere but with the population of the world at the present figures there s a chances to one she ll never meet mrs s device him what do you think of the financial situation walter pretty bad eh thus did the mr play the cards dealt out to him by his fairer half in this little game of hearts of her and it is a certain fact that he played them well for the of a more or less political phase into their discussion rather than otherwise the desire of dr bliss to talk about miss oh hang the financial situation where does she live henry was bliss s answer from which that all was going well that his were correct was speedily shown for it was not many days before mrs with a radiant face handed a note from walter asking her if she would not act as for a little sail on the sound upon his he thought a small party of four consisting of herself and henry miss and himself could have a jolly afternoon and evening of it dining on board in true fashion and returning to earth in the moonlight how do you like that my lord she inquired her eyes beaming with delight mrs s device dreadful said henry got to the moonlight stage already poor bliss poor bliss indeed retorted mrs bliss you ought to call him shall we go shall we go echoed if i fell off the middle of bridge would i land in the water i don t know laughed mrs you might drop into the smoke of a boat of course we ll go said i d go with my worst enemy very well i ll accept said mrs and she did the sail was a great success and everything went exactly as the skilful match maker had wished bliss looked well in his suit the of the were perfect the afternoon was fine the supper and the moonlight irresistible miss was duly impressed and as for the doctor as put it he was going down for the third time if you aren t serious in this match my dear throw him a rope he pleaded in his friend s behalf he wouldn t avail himself of it if i mrs s device did said mrs he wants to drown and i fancy wants him to too because i can t get her to mention his name any more is that a sign asked indeed yes if she talked about him all the time i should be afraid she wasn t quite as deeply in love as i want her to be she s only a woman you know henry if she were a man it would be different the indications were by the results august came and mrs invited miss to spend the month at the summer cottage at and bliss was asked up for a day or two while she was there isn t it a little dangerous my dear asked when his wife asked him to extend the hospitality of the cottage to bliss i should think twice before asking walter to come how absurd you are retorted the match maker what earthly objection can there be no objection at all returned but it may destroy all your good work it will be a terrible test for walter i am afraid breakfast for instance mrs s device is a fearful ordeal for most men they are so apt to be at their very worst at breakfast and it might happen that walter could not stand the strain upon him through a series of them then may not look well in the mornings how is that is she like you always at h r best mrs replied with a smile it was evident that she did not consider	27
the danger very great they might as well get used to seeing each other at breakfast she said if they find they don t admire each other at that time it is just as well they should know it in advance hence it was as i have said that bliss was invited to for a day or two and the day or two in the most natural way in the world lengthened out into a week or two there were walks and talks there were drives and long horseback rides along shaded mountain roads and when it rained there were mornings in the music room together bliss was good natured at breakfast and developed a capacity for appearing to advantage at that trying meal that aroused s highest regard and mrs s device finally well finally miss whispered something into mrs s car at which the latter was so that she nearly her young friend to death here my dear look out remonstrated who happened to be present don t take it all perhaps she wants to live long enough to whisper something to me i do said and then she announced her engagement to walter bliss and she did it so sweetly that had all he could do to keep from his approval after the fashion adopted by his wife i wish i was a literary man said to his wife the next day when they were talking over the situation if i knew how to write i d make a fortune i believe just following up the little that you plan oh nonsense henry replied mrs i don t plan any select certain people for each other and bring them together that is all and push em along em slightly when they don t seem to get started eh mrs s device well yes sometimes and what else does a do he out two people brings them together and them along through as many chapters as he needs for his book said henry that s all now if i could follow your couples have a tremendous advantage in my studies on living models instead of having to imagine my i repeat i wish i could write this little romance of and walter that has just just what asked mrs just ended repeated what s the matter with that you mean just begun said mrs with a sigh the hardest work a match maker has is in conducting the campaign after the are made when two people love each other madly they are apt to do a great deal of quarrelling over absolutely nothing and i m not at all sure that an engagement means marriage until the ceremony has taken place and even then suggested henry there are the divorce courts eh we won t refer to them said mrs mrs s device severely they are relics of but as for the ending of my romance my real work now begins i must watch those two young people carefully and see that their little quarrels are smoothed over their and that every possible difference between them is adjusted but you and i didn t quarrel when we were engaged persisted no we didn t henry replied mrs but that was only because it takes two to make a quarrel and i loved you so much that i was really blind to all your possibilities as an oh said henry ill a set back a is confounded all reproach and everlasting shame sits mocking in our henry v time with great the unhappy fact that mrs knew whereof she spoke when she mrs s device an engagement to a political campaign in that the real battle begins after the are made walter bliss had decided views as to life and miss was hardly less settled in her convictions long before she had met bliss in of a real she had up in her mind an ideal man which at first second and even third sight walter had seemed to her to represent but unfortunately there is a fourth sight and the lover or the who can get beyond this is safe comparatively safe that is for everything in this world has its merits or its comparatively speaking and the comparison is more often than not made from the point of view of what ought to be rather than of what really is mrs was a that is she thought she was and so was miss everybody looks at life from his or her own point of view and there must always be consequently two points of view for there will always be a male way and a female way of looking at things walter was in love with his profession was in love with him as an abstract thing she knew nothing mrs s device of him as a washington fighting she was not aware whether he could combat as successfully as napoleon fought the or not and it may be added that she didn t care he was merely a man in her estimation a thing in the abstract and a most charming thing on the whole he on the other hand looked upon her not as a woman but as a soul and a soul at that an angel indeed without the of wings was she and with a rather more comprehensive knowledge of dress than is attributed to most of angels but two people cannot go on forming an ideal of each other without at some time reaching a point of and walter and reached that point within ten weeks it happened that while calling upon her one evening walter received a professional summons which he admitted was all nonsense why should people call in doctors when it is all nonsense the call came while walter was turning over the leaves at the piano as played what is this he said as he opened mrs s device th	27
note that was addressed to him mrs s boy is sick must you go asked i suppose so said walter i saw him this afternoon and there is not the slightest thing the matter with him but i must go why r asked are you the kind of doctor they call in when there s nothing the matter she did not mean to be sarcastic but she seemed to be and walter of course like a properly sensitive soul was hurt i must go he said positively the thrust but you say there is nothing the matter with the boy suggested i m going just the same said walter and he went played on at the piano until she heard the front door and then she rose up and went to the window walter had gone and was out of sight then sad to say she became philosophical it doesn t really pay for girls to become philosophical but did not know that and she began a course of reasoning he knows he isn t needed but he mrs s device goes she said to herself as she gazed out of the window at the on the other side of the street and he will of course charge the for his services admitting however that his services are nothing that is not conscientious it is not professional he is not for the love of his profession but for the love of money i am disappointed in him and we were having such a pleasant time too so she ran on as sat there in the window seat looking out upon the dreary street and you may be sure that the of her and her disappointments and her sense of loneliness did not help walter s case in the least and that when they met the next time her manner towards him was what some persons which was a manner walter could not and would not abide hence a marked coolness arose between the two which by degrees became so that at about the time when mrs was expected to be called in to assist at a wedding she was stunned by the information that all was over between them mrs s device just think of that henry the good match maker cried all is over between them and she is glad of it made for each other too ejaculated with a mock air of sorrow what was the matter i can t make out exactly observed mrs told me all about it and it struck me as a merely silly lovers quarrel but she won t hear of a reconciliation she says she finds she was mistaken in him i wish you d find out walter s version of it i respectfully refuse my dear mrs returned henry i m not a partner in your enterprise and if you get a couple returned on your hands it is your not mine pity isn t it that you can t manage matters like a tailor suit of clothes is made for me i try it on don t like it send it back and have it changed to fit if you could make a few alterations now in henry you are asserted mrs there s nothing the matter with not the least little thing and walter ought to be ashamed of him r mrs s device self to give her up and fm going to see that he doesn t i believe a law ought to be made anyhow requiring engaged persons who want to break off to go into court and show cause why they shouldn t be from so doing a sort of divorce law eh suggested that s not a bad idea you ought to write to the papers and suggest it using your maiden name of course not mine if you would only find out from walter what he s mad at and tell him he s an idiot and a heartless thing maybe we could smooth it out because i know that way down in her soul loves him very well i ll do it said good but mind you it s only to oblige you and if bliss throws me out of the club window for in his affairs it will be your fault the doctor did not quite throw out of the window that afternoon when the subject came up but he did the next thing to it he turned upon him and with much gravity remarked i ll talk politics medicine literature or neck ties with you but under no circumstances will i talk mrs s device about woman with anybody i prefer a topic concerning which it is possible occasionally to make an intelligent at least woman is as to a mind as chaos who s your tailor r you ought to have seen us when he said that observed to his wife as he told her about the interview at dinner that evening he was as solemn as an and apparently as immovable as the and as for me i simply withered on my stalk and away into dust wherefore my love i am through and hereafter if you are going to make matches for my friends and need outside help get a hired man to help you fm did if i were you let em go their own way and if their lives are spoiled why your conscience is clear either way but mrs had no sympathy with any such view as that she had been so near to victory that she was not going to surrender now without one more charge she tried a little sounding of bliss herself and finally asked him point blank if he would take dinner with herself and and and make it up and he mrs s device declined absolutely and it was just as well for when heard of it she asserted that she had no doubt it	27
the mere that at this hour eighteen months later i can recall the dates of these should be proof if any were needed of the importance of the in my eyes and therefore of the relative of in my possession mrs was dead killed as you may remember at the battle of and i his companion who had never known want while his fingers were able to carry out the plans of that and marvellous mind of his was now in the of the american up against it i had come to the united states not because i had any liking for that country or its people who to tell the truth are too sharp for an ordinary like myself but because with the war at an end i had to go somewhere and english soil was not safely to be trod by one who was required for professional reasons to the eagle scotland yard until the began to have some his case that last affair of and mine wherein we had successfully got away with the diamond of the of was still a live matter in british circles and j the herald personal the very audacity of the crime had definitely fastened the responsibility for it upon our hence it was america for me where one could be as english as one pleased without being subject to the laws of his majesty king edward vii of great britain and ireland and sundry other possessions upon which the sun rarely if ever sets for two years i had led a precarious existence not finding in the land of silk and money quite as many of those opportunities to add to the of my prosperity as the american war correspondent i had met in the led me to expect indeed after six months of on the subject of the i ef ore various in th i was reduced to a state of which actually drove me to of the and most vulgar sort there was little in the way of mean that i did not commit during the mrs coal famine for instance every day passing the coal yards to and fro i would appropriate a single piece of the precious until i had come into possession of a and this i would sell to the suffering poor at prices varying from three shillings to two dollars and a half a precarious living indeed the only i received for six months was in the of the cab which i successfully carried through one bitter cold night in january i hired the vehicle at square and drove to a small tavern on the boston post road where the icy cold of the day g ve me an excuse for getting my in the guise of kindness him safely disposed of in a drunken stupor i drove his back to town earned fifteen dollars with him before daybreak and then leaving the cab in the central park sold the horse for eighteen dollars to a snow removal the herald personal over on the east side it was humiliating to me a gentleman bom and a partner of so illustrious a person as the late a j to have to stoop to such miserable doings to keep body and soul together but i was forced to confess that whatever had left to me in the way of example i was not his equal either in the conception of crime or in the nerve to carry a great enterprise through my biggest had a way of failing at their very beginning was about the only blessing i enjoyed since none of them far enough to my freedom and lacking i was of course unable to carry through the profitable series of in the world of high that i had contemplated hence my misfortunes and now on this beautiful sunday morning but for the and the stamp with no breakfast in sight and enough mrs not even an appetite i turned to my morning paper for my solace my eye up and down the personal column which has for years been my favorite reading of sunday mornings i found the usual of matrimonial recorded pathetic appeals from p d to meet q on the comer of street at three imploring from j a k to at once to his only mother who promises to ask no questions and finally could i believe my eyes now upon the word my own printed as boldly and as plainly as though i were some patent cure for all known human it seemed incredible but there it was beyond all wanted a butler preferred apply to mrs a j van lodge r i to whom could that refer if not to myself and what could it mean the herald personal who was this mrs a j van a name so like that of my dead friend that it seemed almost identical my curiosity was roused to concert pitch if this strange should be but no she would not send for me after that stormy interview in which she cast me over to take the hand of the brilliant fascinating who would have won his from from her from ay even from i never could find it in my heart to blame for losing her heart to him even though she had already promised it to me for i myself could not resist the fascination of the man at whose side i faithfully worked even after he had stolen from me this dearest treasure of my heart and yet who else could it be if not the lovely surely the combination of with or without the van and was not so usual as to mrs permit of so remarkable a coincidence i will go to at once i cried rising and pacing the floor excitedly for i had many times in cursing my loneliness dreamed of and had of	27
and of of late found myself wondering what had become of her and then the helplessness of my position burst upon me with full force how should i the wanderer in new york get to lodge at it takes money in this sordid country to get about even as it does in britain in sorry truth things in detail differ little whether one lives under a king or a president poverty is quite as hard to bear and free passes on the railroad are just as scarce curses on these i muttered as i thought of the railway rolling in wealth trains filled with empty seats to and the herald personal from the spot that might contain my and i unable to avail myself of them for the lack of a paltry dollar or two but suddenly the thought flashed over me telegraph collect if it is she she will respond at once and so it was that an hour later the following message was over the wires personal to day s herald received telegraph railway fare and i will go to you instantly signed for three mortal hours i paced the streets awaiting the reply and at two thirty it came enough in all conscience if you are not a you will know how to raise the cash if you are a i don t want you it was simple direct and convincing and my heart fluttered like the drum beat s morning call to action the moment i read it mrs by jove i cried the woman is right of it must be and i ll go to her if i have to rob a in the machine it was as of old faint hearted i always was some one gave me a bit of encouragement a word of praise or cheer from in the old days and i was ready to down a bit of and a rag was plate beside me if you are not a you will know i read spreading the message out before me that is to say she believes that if i am really myself i can the ill do it and i set off hot foot up fifth avenue hoping to discover or by in the air of the spring time afternoon to conceive of some plan to relieve my necessities but somehow or other it wouldn t come there were no pockets about to be picked in the ordinary way i hadn t the fare for lo the herald personal a ride on the surface or elevated cars where i might have found an opportunity to relieve some traveller of his purse and as for such a thing from some it was sunday and the women who would have been an easy prey on a bargain day carried neither purse nor side bag with them i was in despair and then the bells of st s the spiritual home of the of new york rang out the call to afternoon service it was like an invitation the way was clear my plan was laid in an instant and it worked beyond my most hopeful entering the church i was ushered to a about up the centre aisle despite my poverty i had managed to keep myself always well and no one would have guessed to look at my frock coat and neatly trousers at my finely hand and polished top hat that my pockets held ii mrs scarcely a brass the service a good sermon on the vanity of riches in my ears and then the supreme moment came the collection plate was passed and my two in my hand i made as if to place them in the but with studied awkwardness i knocked the from the hands of the gentleman who passed it the whole contents and the as well fell at my feet and from my lips in whispers poured forth no end of most abject apologies of course i assisted in recovering the fallen bills and and in less time than it takes to tell it the was proceeding on his way up the aisle gathering in the from other generously disposed persons as he went as unconsciously as though the had never occurred and happily unaware that out of the cast to the floor by my awkward act ii the adventure of the villa there is little need for me to describe in detail the story of my railway journey from new york to i was and save as to the latter end of it when on the arrival of the train at observing that the prosperous looking gentleman bound for boston who occupied the seat next mine in the car was sleeping soundly i exchanged my well worn covert coat for his richly made and made off as well with his suit case on the chance of its holding something that might later serve some one of my many purposes the villa i mention this in passing only because the suit case containing as it did all the essential features of a gentleman s evening attire even to three superb pearl in the bosom of an white shirt all of them enough as perfectly fitting as though they had been made for me with a hundred first bonds of the united states steel company of which there will be more anon enabled me later to appear before mrs van in a guise so prosperous as to win an immediate renewal of her favor we shall be almost as great a combination as the original she cried when i told her of this with my brains and your blind luck nothing can stop us my own feelings as i drove up to lodge were mixed i still loved madly but the con mrs between her present luxury and my recent misery harshly upon me i could not rid myself of the notion that had told her of the	27
secret hiding place of the diamond of the of and that she had appropriated to her own use all the proceeds of its sale leaving me who had risked my liberty to obtain it without a penny s worth of for my pains it did not seem quite a level thing to do and i must confess that i greeted the lady in a spirit it was indeed she and more beautiful than a trifle thinner perhaps and her eyes more coldly piercing than winning as of but still whom i had once so madly loved and who had me for a better man dear old she murmured holding out both hands in welcome just to think that after all these years and in a strange land and under i the villa such circumstances we should meet again it is strange said i my eye about the drawing room which from the point of view of its and was about the richest thing i had ever seen either by light of day or in the mysterious glimpses one gets with a dark lantern of the houses of the classes it seems more than strange i added significantly to see you surrounded by such luxury a so called lodge built of the finest grade of italian marble gardens fit for the palace of a king a of servants such as one scarcely finds on the estates of the families of england and a mansion that is furnished with treasures of art anyone of which is worth a queen s i do not wonder you are surprised she replied looking about the room with a smile of satisfaction that did little to soothe my growing wrath mrs it certainly leaves room for explanation i retorted coldly of course if told you where the jewels were hid and you have disposed of them some of all this could be accounted for but what of me did it ever occur to you that i was entitled to some part of the oh you poor suspicious old she haven t i sent for you to give you some share of this although truly you don t deserve it for this is all mine i haven t any more notion what became of the jewels than the of herself what i cried then these surroundings are self furnishing she said with a merry little laugh and all through a plan of my own this house as you may not be aware is the late residence of mr and mrs constant j the villa who are each other for divorce i put in for i knew of the constant in social life as who did not since a good third of the society of the day concerned themselves with the matrimonial difficulties of this notable couple precisely said now mrs is in south establishing a residence and colonel is at his money with the aid of a wheel and a small ball lodge with its fine collection of old furniture its splendid its marvellous oriental paintings and innumerable small silver articles is left here at and for rent what more natural dear than that i a residence whose would in itself be an assurance of my social position should snap it up with an eagerness which in this atmosphere amounted nearly to a of origin mrs but it must cost a i cried gazing about me at the of the room which even to a inspection revealed themselves as of value that jar over by the fireplace is worth two hundred pounds alone that is just the reason why i wanted this particular house it is also why i need your assistance in maintaining it mrs returned woman is ever a mystery i responded with a harsh laugh why in heaven s name you think i can help you to pay your rent it is only twenty five hundred dollars a month she said my answer was a roar of laughter hear her i cried addressing the empty air only twenty five hundred dollars a month why my dear if it were twenty five hundred shells a century i couldn t the villa help you pay a day s i am that until this afternoon i hadn t seen thirty cents all at once for nigh on to six months i have been so poor that i ve had to take my morning coffee at midnight from the coffee of the new york boston and sporting papers in eight months i have not tasted a h te dinner that an expert would value at fifteen cents net and yet you ask me to help you pay twenty five hundred dollars a month rent for a palace you must be mad you are the same old that you used to be said mrs sharply yet with a touch of affection in her voice you can t keep your trap shut for a second can you do you know what dear old a j said to me just before he went to south africa it was that if you were as devoted to business as you were to words you d be a wonder his exact remark was that mrs we would both have to look out for you for fear you would queer the whole estimated that your habit of writing up full accounts of his various for the ix magazines had made the risks one hundred per cent bigger and the available a thousand per cent harder to get hold of harry said he the night before he sailed if i die over in the and you decide to continue the business get along as long as you can without a press agent if you go on the stage surround yourself with em but in the trade they are a nuisance my answer was a sulky shrug of the shoulders you haven t given me a chance to explain how you are to	27
help me i don t ask you for money four dollars worth of obedience is all i want she continued the property in this mansion is worth about half a million dollars my lad the villa and i want you to be well my official porter i took immediate possession of this house and my first month s rent was paid with the proceeds of a sale of three old i found on the top floor six pieces of china from the bedroom on the floor above this and a which i discovered in a hall closet on the third floor a light began to dawn on me before coming here i out a miserable existence in new york as for an antique dealer on fourth avenue she explained he thinks i am still working for him travelling about the country in search of in high boys mahogany antique tables in short valuable generally now do you see as mrs or van as you have it now i demanded oh what a stupid you are never as miss mrs robinson she replied from this i earn fifteen dollars a week the sources of the material i send him well do you see now it is growing clearer said i you contemplate paying the rent of this house with its contents is that it what beautiful intelligence you have she laughed you know a hawk from a hand saw nobody can pass a car off on you for a horse can they dear not while you have that eagle eye of yours wide open yes sir that is the scheme am going to pay the of this mansion with its contents half a million dollars worth of contents means how long at twenty five hundred dollars a month eh i cried you are worthy of i swear it you can be easy about your rent for sixteen years that is about the size of it as i the villa these people have it said mrs beaming upon me i m still in the dark as to where i come in said i promise to obey my directions said and you will receive your share of the i cried passionately seizing her hand no not now she remonstrated gently this is no time for sentiment just promise to obey the love and honor business may come later i will said i well then she resumed her color mounting high and speaking rapidly you are to return at once to new york taking with you three trunks which i have already packed containing one of the most beautiful of ornaments that has ever been gathered together you will rent a furnished apartment in some aristocratic quarter spread these mrs articles throughout your rooms as though you were a and on thursday next when mr van gilt calls upon you to see collection you will sell it to him for not less than eight thousand dollars said i i see the scheme this you will immediately to me here she continued excitedly mr van gilt will pay cash i laughed why eight thousand i demanded are you living beyond your ah income no she answered but next month s rent is due tuesday and i owe my servants and twenty five hundred dollars more even then there will be three thousand dollars over i put in true true but i shall need it all dear i am invited to the p j d on sunday afternoon to play bridge explained we must prepare for i returned to new york on the the villa boat that night and by wednesday was safely in very beautifully furnished bachelor quarters near square where on thursday mr van gilt called to see my collection of which i was selling because of a contemplated five year journey into the east on friday mr van gilt took possession of the collection and that night a check for eight thousand dollars went to mrs van at incidentally i passed two thousand dollars to my own credit as i figured it out if van gilt was willing to pay ten thousand dollars for the stuff and was willing to take eight thousand dollars for it nobody was the by my two thousand dollars unless perhaps it was mr and mrs constant who owned the goods but that was none of my affair i played straight with the others and that was all there was to it as far as i was concerned ill the adventure op mrs s maid two days after my bargain with mr van gilt in which he acquired possession of the and mrs van and i shared the proceeds of the ten thousand dollars check i was at lodge as head butler and steward my salary to consist of what i could make out of it on the side ten per cent of the of my mistress it was not long before i discovered that the job was a one from various of the town i received presents of no little value in the form sometimes of diamond pins gold link sleeve buttons cases of fine a mrs s maid for my own and in one or two instances of substantial value there was also what was called a steward s on the monthly bills which in circles where lavish entertainment is the order of the day amounted to a tidy little income in itself my only embarrassment lay in the contact into which i was necessarily brought with other with whom i was required to associate this went very much against the grain at first for although i am scarcely more than a thief after all i am an artistic one and still retain the prejudice against inferior associations which an english gentleman whatever the of his career can never quite rid himself of i had to join their club 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gentlemen s gentlemen otherwise and in order to quiet all suspicion of my real in the van household i was compelled to act the mrs part in a fashion which me otherwise the position was pleasant and as i have intimated more than it did not take me many days to discover that was a worthy successor to her late husband few opportunities for personal profit escaped her eye and i was able to observe as time went on and i noted the of forks and generally that she brought home with her after her calls upon or dinners with ladies of fashion that she had that quality of true genius which never the smallest details the first big after my arrival as the result of her genius was in the affair of mrs s maid had been to a bridge afternoon at mrs s and upon her return manifested an extraordinary degree of excitement her color was high and when she spoke her voice was mrs s maid her disturbed condition was so evident that my heart sank into my boots for in our business nerve is a non of success and it looked to me as if was losing hers she has probably lost at cards to day i thought and it has affected her usual calmness i must do something to warn her against this momentary weakness with this idea in mind when the opportunity presented itself later i spoke you lost at bridge to day i said yes she replied twenty five hundred dollars in two hours how did you guess by your manner said i you are as nervous as a young girl at a commencement this won t do nerves will prove your ruin and if you can t stand your losses at bridge what will you do in the face of the greater crisis which in our profession is likely to mrs us in the shape of an unexpected visit of police at any moment her answer was a ringing laugh you absurd old rabbit she murmured as if i cared about my losses at bridge why my dear i lost that money on purpose you don t suppose that i am going to risk my popularity with these ladies by winning do you not i my boy i plan too far ahead for that for the good of our cause it is my task to lose steadily and with good grace this my credit proves my and my popularity but you are very much excited by something said i you cannot deny that i don t but it is the prospect of future gain not the reality of present losses that has taken me off my she said whom do you suppose i saw at mrs s to day mrs s maid no i hope i replied at the thought no sir she laughed mrs s maid we must get her oh i ejaculated all this over another woman s maid you don t understand said it wasn t the maid so much as the woman that startled me you can t guess who she was how should i i demanded she was de one of the most expert hands in our business poor old used to say that she diminished his income a good ten thousand pounds a year by getting in her fine work ahead of his explained he pointed her out to me in once and i have never forgotten her face i hope she did not recognize you i observed mrs no indeed she never saw me before so how could she but i knew her the minute she took my cloak said she s her hair but her eyes were the same as ever and that peculiar twist of the lip that had spoken of as one of her remained unchanged moreover just to prove myself right i left my lace handkerchief and a five dollar bill in the cloak pocket when i got the cloak back both were gone oh she s de all right and we must get her what to rob you no returned rather that we but there there i ll manage this little thing myself it s a trifle too subtle for a man s intellect especially when that man is you what do you suppose she is doing here i asked you silly boy laughed a v mrs s maid doing why mrs of course she is after the jewels i said gloomily that cuts us out doesn t it does it asked it was about ten weeks later that the newspapers of the whole country were ringing with the startling news of the mysterious disappearance of mrs s jewels the lady had been robbed of three hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars worth of gems and there was apparently no even to the thief and i of course knew that de had accomplished her mission but apparently no one else knew it true she had been accused and had been subjected to a most rigid examination by the police and the new york central office but no proof of any kind establishing her guilt could be and after a week of suspicion she was to all in ta i mrs tents and purposes relieved of all she ll now said i not she said to disappear now would be a confession of guilt if de is the woman i take her for she ll stay right here as if nothing had happened but of course not at mrs s where then i asked with mrs a j van replied the fact is she added i have already engaged her she has acted her part well and has seemed so by the unjust suspicion of the world that even mrs is disturbed over her condition she has asked her to remain but has refused i couldn t madam she said when mrs asked	27
her to stay you have accused me of a fearful crime a crime of which i am innocent and i d rather work in a factory or become a shop girl in a department store than mrs s maid stay longer in a house where such painful things have happened result next tuesday de comes to me as my maid well said i presume you know your own business but why you lay yourself open to being robbed yourself and to having the profits of your own business diminished i can t see please remember that i warned you against this foolish act all right i ll remember smiled mrs van and there the matter was dropped for the moment the following tuesday de was in the van household as the maid of mrs a j van to her eagle eye it was another promising field for profit for had spared neither pains nor money to impress with the idea that next to mrs she was about as lavish and capable a as could be mrs found in the social capital of the united states as for me i was the of gloom the woman s presence in our household could not be but a source of danger to our peace of mind as well as to our profits and for the life of me i could not see why should want her there but i was not long in finding out a week after s arrival mrs rang for me yes madam i said immediately to her call she said her hand trembling a little the hour for action has arrived i have just sent on an errand to providence she will be gone three hours yes said i what of it i want you during her absence to go with me to her room the situation began to dawn on me yes i cried and search her trunks mrs s maid no no the whispered i gave her that room in the wing because it has so many odd holes where she could conceal things i am inclined to think well the moment she leaves the city let me know follow her to the station and don t return till you know she is safely out of town and on her way to providence then our turn will come oh that woman if i had not adored her before i but enough this is no place for sentiment the story is the thing and i must tell it briefly i followed out s instructions to the letter and an hour later returned with the information that was indeed safely on her way good said mrs and now for the jewels mounting the stairs rapidly taking care of course that there were none mrs of the other servants about to spy upon us we came to the maid s room everything in it a high mind and a good character there were religious es upon the prayer books and some volumes of essays of a spiritual nature were scattered about nothing was there to indicate that the was but a simple sweet child of innocence except well was right except the jewels even as my mistress had suspected they were under the close against the huge window looking out upon the gardens laid by for a convenient moment to get them out of and then back to england for and what a gorgeous collection they were of diamonds yards of pearl rope of of the most color and of the size of eggs rings her slight the pearl rope op mrs ton said one morning shortly after we had come into possession of the jewels how is your nerve are you ready for a requiring a lot of it well i replied myself a bit i don t wish to boast but i think it is pretty good i managed to raise twenty seven hundred dollars on my own by the use of it last night indeed said with a slight frown how you know you are likely to matters for all of us if you work on mrs the side what pray did you do last night and then i unfolded to her the incidents of the night before when by assuming at a moment s notice the position of to young de the young favorite of the inner set i had relieved that young bachelor of fifteen hundred dollars in cash and some twelve hundred dollars worth of jewels as well i was spending the evening at the gentlemen s gentlemen s club i explained when word came over the to mr de s that mr de was at the and in no condition to go home alone it happened that it was i who took the message and observing that was engaged in a game of and likely to remain so for some time to come i decided to go after the gentleman myself without saying anything to about it myself up so that no one mrs could recognize me i hired a cab and drove out to the mansion sent in word that mr de s man was waiting for him and in ten minutes had the yoimg gentleman in my possession i took him to his apartment dismissed the cab and letting ourselves into his room with his own latch key put him to bed his clothes i took as a well ordered should from his bed chamber into an adjoining room where after removing the contents of his pockets i hung them neatly over a chair and departed taking with me of course everything of value the young gentleman had about him even down to the two brilliant he wore in his this consisted of two of bills from his trousers three rolls of one hundred dollar bills from his waistcoat and sundry other lots of both paper and that i found	27
away in his over mrs coat and dinner coat pockets there were also ten twenty dollar gold pieces in a little silver chain bag he carried on his wrist as i say there was about fifteen hundred dollars of this loose change and i reckon up the value of his and finger rings at about twelve hundred dollars more or a twenty seven hundred dollars pull in all eh mercy that was a terribly thing suppose he had recognized you cried oh he did or at least he thought he did i replied smiling at the recollection on the way home in the cab he wept on my shoulder and said i was the best friend he ever had and told me he loved me like a brother there wasn t anything he wouldn t do for me and if ever i wanted an or a grand piano all i had to do was to ask him for it he was very genial well said mrs you are very clever at times but do be careful i am delighted to have you show your nerve now and then but please don t take any serious chances if mr de ever you and he here next wednesday you ll get us both into awful trouble again i laughed he won t said i with a conviction bom of experience his was of the kind that leaves the mind a blank the following morning i don t believe mr de remembers now that he was at the last night and even if he does you know that i was in this house at eleven o clock i why i haven t seen you since dinner she nevertheless you know that i was in the house at eleven o clock last night or rather you will know it if you are ever questioned on the subject which you won t be said i so now that i have shown mrs you in just what shape my nerve is what is the demand you are going to put upon it you will have to bring to the enterprise all that ability which used to your efforts as an amateur actor she replied summon all your sang to your aid act with deliberation courtesy and above all without the slightest of and we should win not a petty little hundred dollars but as many thousands you know mrs yes said i she is the lady who asked me for the at your last dinner precisely observed you possibly observed also that wherever she goes she wears about sixty nine yards of pearl rope upon her person rope i laughed i shouldn t call that rope cable yes frankly mrs when she came into the dining room the other night i thought it was a feather she had on all pearls of the finest water said there isn t one of the thousands that isn t worth anywhere from five hundred to twenty five and i am to land a yard or two of the stuff for you in some mysterious way i demanded how is it to be by the lady the snatch and run game or how sarcasm does not suit your complexion retorted your best method is to follow the directions of wiser brains you are a first class tool but as a principal well well never mind you do what i tell you and some of those pearls will be ours mrs as you may have noticed is one of those exceedingly ladies who go into over everything and everybody she mrs is what used to call a where most people nod she describes a complete circle with her head when a cold formal is an embrace and that is where we come in at my next tuesday tea she will be present she will wear her pearls she ll be strung with them from head to foot a rope walk won t be in it with her and every single little jewel will be worth a small you will be in the room to announce her when she arrives she will rush to my arms throw her own about my neck the ornaments of my will catch the rope at two or more points the thread in several places pearls will rain down upon the floor by and then i m to snatch em and through the window eh i interrupted no you will behave like a gentleman that is all she responded or rather like a mrs butler with the instincts of a gentleman at my cry of dismay over the accident better call it the incident i put in hush at my cry of dismay over the repeated you will spring forward go down upon your knees and gather up the jewels by the handful you will pour them back into mrs s hands and retire now do you see h m yes said i but how do you get the pearls if i pour them back into her hands am i to slide some of them under the or them with my thumb nail under the piano or what nothing of the sort just do as i tell you only bring your gloves to me just before the guests arrive that is all said instinct will carry you through the rest of it co mrs and then the conspiracy stopped for the moment the following tuesday at five the second of mrs van s tuesday began favored us in that it was a beautiful day and the number of guests was large was charming in her new gown specially imported from paris a gown of oriental design with row upon row of brilliantly shining shaped ornaments firmly to the front of it and every one of them as sharp as a steel knife i could see at a glance that even if so	27
little as one of these fastened its upon the pearl rope of mrs nothing under heaven could save it from what a marvellous mind there lay behind those exquisite eyes of the wonderful remember calm deliberation your gloves now were her last words to me si mrs count on me but i still don t see i began hush just watch me she replied whereupon this wonderful creature taking my white gloves deliberately their palms and inner sides of the fingers with a milk of her own making composed of powder and liquid honey nothing more innocent appearing yet more have i ever before encountered there she said and at last i understood an hour later our victim arrived and scarce an inch of her but shone like a snow clad hill with the pearls she wore i stood at the and announced mrs in my most but tones the lady fairly rushed by me and in a moment her arms were about s neck you dear sweet thing cried mrs mrs and you look so exquisitely charming to day and then there came a sound the two women started to draw away from each other five of the catching in the rope in the impulsive back of mrs in order that she might gaze into s eyes cut through the marvellous of the exquisite jewels there was a cry of dismay both from and her guest and the rug beneath their feet was simply white with riches in a moment i was upon my knees them up by the handful oh dear how very unfortunate cried here dear she added holding out a pair of let james pour them into this and james otherwise myself did so to the extent of five full of them and then he retired well said s mrs two hours later when her last guest had gone tell me quickly what was the result these madam said i handing her a small bag into which i had poured the taken from my palms a good afternoon s work i added and it was seventeen pearls of a value of twelve hundred dollars each fifteen worth scarcely less than nine hundred dollars apiece and some twenty seven or eight smaller ones that we held to be worth in the neighborhood of five hundred dollars each splendid cried roughly speaking we ve pulled in between forty and fifty thousand dollars to day about that said i with an inward chuckle for i of course did not tell of eight beauties i had kept out of the returns for myself but what are we going to do when the adventure op the steel bonds excuse me said i one morning after i had been in mrs van s employ for about three months and had begun to calculate as to my share of the profits what are you doing with all this money we are gradually there be pretty near a million in hand by this time eh one million two hundred and eighty seven thousand five hundred and twenty eight dollars and cents replied instantly it s a tidy little sum almost enough to retire on i suggested now stop that retorted adventure of the steel bonds either stop it or else retire yourself i am not what they call a in this country and i do not propose at the very height of my career to give up a business which i have struggled for years to establish that is all very well said i but the that goes to the bat too often strikes out at last i had become a during my in the states a million dollars is a pot of money and it s my advice to you to get away with it as soon as you can excuse me but when did i ever employ you to give advice demanded it is quite evident that you don t understand me do you suppose for an instant that i am these people here in merely for the vulgar purpose of acquiring money if you do you have a of the purposes which an artist you certainly are an artist hen mrs i answered desirous of her then you should know better than to intimate that i am in this business for the sordid dollars and cents there are to be got out of it my mistress mr doesn t chase the bag because he loves to shed the or for bags as an article of food he does it for the excitement of the hunt because he loves to feel the movement of the hunter that he sits so well between his knees because he is of the of the the winding of the horn and the element of personal danger that enters into the sport when he and his have to take an unusual fence or an extra broad so with me in separating these people here from their money and their jewels it is not the money and the jewels that i care for so much as the delicious risks i in adventure of the steel bonds in getting them what the high fence is to the hunter the separating me from mrs s jewel case are to me what the watchful farmer armed with a shot gun for the protection of his crops is to the master of the hounds the police are to me the game of the latter and the former are the joy of my life and while my eyes flash and sparkle with appetite every time i see a or a or a roll of hundred dollar bills in the course of my social duties it is not that makes them glitter but the call to action which they i felt like saying that if that were the case i should esteem it a privilege to be made permanent of the balance in hand but it	27
was quite evident from s manner that she was in no mood for so i held my peace to prove to you that i am not out for the money i ll give mrs you a check this morning for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to pay you for those steel bonds you picked up on the train when you came up here from new york that s two and a half times what they are worth said is it a bargain certainly ma am i replied delighted with the proposition but what are you going to do with the bonds borrow a million and a half on em what i cried a million and a half on a hundred thousand security certainly replied only it will require a little for the past six months i have been the i have received in seventeen national banks in each account being opened in a different name the in each bank have about three adventure of the steel bonds hundred thousand dollars thanks to a circular system of in an endless chain that i have devised naturally the size of these accounts has interested the bank officials and they all regard me as a most desirable customer and i think i can manage matters so that two or three of them anyhow will lend me all the money i want on those bonds and this of trust which i shall ask you to sign me i laughed surely you are joking what value will my signature have it will be good as gold after you have deposited that check for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in your new york bank said i shall go to the president of the national bank at where i have at present three hundred and sixty eight thousand three hundred and dollars and eighteen cents on i mrs deposit and tell him that the hon john of new york is my for an estate of thirteen million dollars in funds set apart for me by a famous relative of mine who is not proud of the connection he will with you and ask you if this is true you will respond by sending him a copy of the trust and refer him as to your own responsibility to the new york bank where our two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is on deposit i will then with you for three hundred thousand dollars mine to you going into your new york account and yours to me as going into my with the national the new york bank will naturally speak well of your balance and the people finding the thousand dollar check good will never think of questioning your credit this arranged we will start adventure of the steel bond in to wash those steel bonds up to the limit that s a very simple little plan of yours said i and the first part of it will work easily i have no doubt but how the deuce are you going to wash those bonds up to fifteen times their value easiest thing in the world laughed there will be two million dollars of the bonds before i get through heavens no i hope i cried nothing so vulgar said just a little management that s all and by the way when you get a chance please hire twenty safe deposit boxes for me in as many different trust companies here and in new york and don t have em too near together that s all for the present three weeks later having followed out s instructions to the mrs letter i received at my new york office a communication from the president of the national bank of inquiring as to the van trust fund i replied with a copy of the original which had already placed in the president s hands i incidentally referred the as to my own standing to the trust company of new york the thousand dollar were exchanged by and myself hers by the way was on the seventy sixth national bank of and was signed by a male name which shows how carefully she had covered her tracks both went through without question and then the steel bonds came into play applied for a loan of one million five hundred thousand dollars offering the trust for security the president of the national wished to see adventure of the steel bonds some of her other if she had any to which cordially replied that if he would come to new york she would gladly show them to him and intimated that if the loan went through she wouldn t mind paying the bank a of one hundred thousand dollars for the accommodation the response was immediate mr would come on at once and he did now said mrs van on the morning of his arrival all you have to do is to put the one hundred bonds first in the vault of the trust company of west virginia on wall street mr and i will go there and i will show them to him we will then depart immediately after our departure you will get the bonds and take them to the of the and continental trust company of new on you will go on foot we in a so that you mrs will get there first i will take mr in and show him the bonds again then you will take them to the of the coal trust company of on broad street where five minutes later i will show them for the third time to mr and so on we will repeat this operation eighteen times in new york so that our visitor will fancy he has seen one million eight hundred thousand dollars worth of bonds in all after which he will come to where i will show them to him twice more making a two show down see	27
i back into a chair in sheer amazement by but you are a wonder i cried if it only works it worked mr was duly impressed with the extent of s fortune in not to mention her evident standing in the adventure of the steel bonds community of her residence he was entertained and never for an instant guessed when at dinner where had no less personages than the mrs mrs dare and various other social lights to meet him that the butler who passed him his soup and helped him liberally to wine was the hon john well said as she gazed at the president s check for one million four hundred thousand dollars the amount of the loan less the that was the best sport yet even aside from the size of the check it was great chasing the old man to cover what do you think he said to me when he left the poor dear old innocent give it what he said that i ought to be very careful in my dealings with men who mrs might impose upon my simplicity laughed simplicity i roared what ever gave him the idea that you were simple oh i don t know said i guess it was because i told him i kept those bonds in twenty safe deposit instead of in one to protect myself in case of loss by fire i didn t want to have too many eggs in one basket h m said i what did he say to that laughed long and loud at the recollection of the aged bank president s reply he squeezed my hand and answered what a child it is indeed said ic i vi the adventure of the air fund it was a bright sunny morning in the summer when gazing out of the dining room windows across the adjoining the place caught sight of a number of at play there who are those little she asked with a suggestion of a frown upon her brow they have been playing on the since seven o clock this morning and i ve lost quite two hours sleep because of their chatter they are children from mrs s fresh air society i explained for i too had been annoyed mrs by the loud of the and had made inquiries as to their identity every summer mr de s tells me mrs gives a tea for the benefit of the fresh air fund and she always has a dozen of the children from town for a week beforehand so as to get them in shape for the function get them in shape for the function asked yes one of the features of the tea is the presence of the and they have to be pretty well before mrs dares let them loose among her guests said i for had explained the scheme in detail to me you see their ideas of fun are rather primitive and if they were suddenly introduced into polite society without any previous training the results might prove unpleasant ah said gazing out of the window in the the fresh air fund manner of one suddenly seized with an idea yes i went on you see the street loves nothing better in the way of diversion than throwing things at somebody particularly if that somebody is what is known to his as a boy as between eating an over ripe and throwing it at the pot hat of a boy the would deny even the of his stomach for that tender morsel it is his delight too to heave tin wash flat irons anything he can lay his hands on at the if i may use the term of all of which before he is turned loose in the highest social circles of the land it is desirable that he shall be cured i see said and so mrs has them here on a ten days during which time they acquire that degree of and of etiquette mrs which alone makes it possible for her to exhibit them at her tea precisely said i she lets them sleep in the big box of her stable where the extra coach horses were kept before the car came in they receive four square meals a day are rubbed down and before each meal and are bathed night and morning in violet water until the occasion after which they are returned to new york if not wiser children it is a great charity said does mrs make any charge for admission to these you say they are for the benefit of the fresh air fund oh no indeed said i it is purely a private charity the get their ten days in the country learn good manners and society has a pleasant afternoon all at mrs s expense h m said the fresh air fund h m i think there is a better method ah i want you to run down to new york for a few days shortly i have a letter i wish you nothing more was said on the subject until the following tuesday when i was despatched to new york with instructions to myself into a winter fresh air society to have letter heads printed with the names of some of the most prominent ladies in society as had secured permission from mrs mrs mrs mrs mrs r u the of mrs k van and numerous others to use their names in connection with the new enterprise and to write her a letter asking if she would not interest herself and her friends in the needs of the new society it is quite as important the b mrs letter ran that there be a fund to take the little of our dreadful away from the and snow streets of the city as it is to give them their summer this society is in great	27
need of twenty five thousand dollars properly to its work during the coming winter and we appeal to you for aid s personal response to this request was a check for ten thousand dollars which as secretary and of the fund i acknowledged and then of course returned to her whereupon her campaign began in earnest her own enthusiasm for the project backed up by her most generous contribution proved and inside of two weeks not counting s check we were in possession of over seventeen thousand dollars one lady going so far as to give us all her bridge for a week and now for the grand the fresh air fund said mrs van when i had returned with the spoil great i cried haven t you got enough no not a quarter enough she replied these winter are very expensive places and while seventeen thousand dollars would do very nicely for running a farm in summer we shall need quite a hundred thousand to send our to palm beach in proper style e w i whistled in amazement palm beach eh yes said palm beach i have always wanted to go there and the one hundred thousand dollars how do you propose to get that i demanded i shall give a lawn f te and for the benefit of the fund it will differ from mrs s tea in that i shall charge ten dollars admission ten dollars to get out and mrs we shall sell things besides i have already spoken to mrs about it and she is delighted with the idea she has promised to stock the flower table with the cream of her mrs has volunteered to take charge of the the of is dressing a doll that is to be named by and at five dollars a guess mrs is to take entire control of the fancy table where we shall sell gold match boxes solid silver head lights and other necessities of life among the select i don t see how the thing can fail do you not so far said i each of the twelve lady has promised to be responsible for the sale of a hundred tickets of admission at ten dollars apiece that makes twelve thousand dollars in ad i i the fresh air fund it will cost each person ten dollars more to get out which if only half of the tickets are used will be six thousand dollars or eighteen thousand dollars in entrance and exit alone i cried madam was an amateur alongside of you mrs van smiled thank you said she if i d only been a man y i ejaculated wall street would have been an infant in your hands well the day came to do her justice had herself spared no pains or expense to make the thing a success i doubt if the gardens of the constant ever looked so beautiful there were flowers everywhere and hanging from tree to tree from one end of their twenty acres to the other were long and graceful of mrs electric lights that when night came down upon the f te made the scene appear like a veritable glimpse of everybody that is anybody was there with a multitude of others who may always be counted upon to pay well to see their names in print or to get a view of society at close range of course there was music of an sort the numbers being especially designed to touch the of hearts and was everywhere no one great or small in that vast gathering but received one of her gracious smiles and it is no exaggeration to say that half of the flowers purchased at that would make a fifth avenue tailor hang his head in shame were bought by the gallant gentlemen of for to the hostess of the day these were immediately placed on sale again so that on the flower account the were swelled the fresh air fund a more has never been known even in this the richest of the land with one another in making the affair a vast financial success the ever gallant dare left the scene twenty times for the mere privilege of paying his way in and out that many times over at ten dollars each way the doll which had named was also the cause of much merriment since when all was over and some thirteen thousand five hundred dollars had been taken in for it was found that the had forgotten the name he had given it when the laughter over this incident had subsided suggested that it be put up at which plan was immediately followed out with the result that the of the of was knocked down for eight thousand six hundred and seventy five dollars to a who had been mrs trying for eight years to get his name into the social register thank goodness that s over said when the last guest had gone and the lights were out it has been a very delightful affair but towards the end it began to get on my nerves i am really appalled at the amount of money we have taken in did you get the full one hundred thousand dollars i asked full hundred thousand she cried listen to this and she read the following of the day s flower table doll table supper table book table coat t oo total w j the fresh air fund great heavens what a haul i cried but how much did you spend yourself oh about twenty thousand dollars i really felt i could afford it we ll net not less than one hundred and fifty thousand i was suddenly seized with a chill the thing me i murmured suppose these people ask you next winter for a report oh laughed i shall immediately turn the money over to the fund you can send me a receipt and	27
own copy there wasn t a real stone in the whole and the worst part of it was that under the circumstances could not tell anybody over the that mrs was in vulgar putting up a shine on high society viii the adventure of the library merciful said one morning as i was removing the breakfast tray from her apartment did you see the extent of mr s in the published list this morning i have not received my paper yet said i moreover i doubt if it will contain any reference to such matters when it does come you know i read only the london times mrs van i haven t been able to go the american newspapers more fool you then laughed my mistress any man who mrs wants to pursue crime as a polite diversion and does not read the american newspapers fails to avail himself of one of the most potent instruments for the of the highest artistic results you cannot pick up a newspaper in any part of the land without discovering somewhere in its columns some reference to a new variety of house breaking some new and highly artistic method of writing another man s so that when to a check and presented at his bank it will bear the scrutiny to which the paying will subject it some truly method of entirely novel design for the sudden parting of ihe rich from their possessions any university which attempted to add a school of to its and ignored the daily papers as a positive source of inspiration to the highest in the profession would fail as as though it loo the library should forget to teach the principles of high i was not aware of their in that direction said i you never will get on sighed because you are not quick to seize opportunities that lie directly under your nose how do you suppose i first learned of all this at why by reading the newspaper of their jewels in the sunday and daily newspapers how do i know that if i want to sand bag mr and rifle his pockets all i have to do is to station myself outside the club any dark opera night after twelve and catch him on his way home with his fortune sticking out all over him because the newspapers tell me that he is a regular of the and plays bridge there every night after the opera how do i know just how to walk from my hall bedroom lot mrs in my little east side up fifth avenue into mrs s dining room where she has a million in plate on her with my eyes shut without fear of stumbling over a step or a chair or even a because the newspapers have so repeatedly printed of the interior of the lady s residence that its halls passages turns and de are engraved upon my mind how did i acquire my wonderful knowledge of the exact number of pearls diamonds and other gorgeous jewels now in the possession of the smart set only by an devotion to the contents of the daily newspapers in their reports of the doings of the elect i have a scrap book that has been two years in the making and there hasn t been a novel reported in all that time i the library that is not recorded in my book not a that has appeared at the opera the theatre the charity ball the horse show or a monkey dinner that has not been duly noted in this of mine fully described and in a sense if it wasn t for that knowledge i could not hope for success any more than you could if you went hunting mountain lions in the desert of or tried to from the depths of an empty globe i see said i meekly i have missed a great opportunity i will to the and evening post right away i have never understood why greeted this observation with a peal of silvery laughter that fairly made the ring all i know is that it so irritated me that i left the room to keep from making a retort that might seriously have disturbed our friendship later in the mrs day mrs van rang for me and i attended upon her orders said she i ve made up my mind to it i must have a library that is all there is about it and you must help the iron master has ah spent thirty nine million dollars on that sort of thing and i don t see why if other people can get em we can t possibly because we are not a city town or hamlet i suggested for i had been looking over the daily papers since my morning s talk with the lady and had observed just who had been the of mr s he don t give em to individuals but to of course not she responded quickly but what is to prevent our becoming a my answer was an amazed silence for frankly i could not for the life of the library me guess how we were to do any such thing it s the easiest thing in the world she continued all you have to do is to buy an abandoned farm on long island with a bleak sea front divide it up into comer lots the lots for sale on the plan elect your mayor and by the sea swept by ocean breezes fifteen cents from the battery is a living breathing reality by the jumping but you are a marvel i cried with enthusiasm but i added my a little won t it cost money about fifteen hundred dollars said i can win that at bridge in an hour well said i you know you can command my services what shall i do the city she replied here is fifty dollars that will	27
out or by the expert use of powder gave to her cheeks the pallid look which bore out mrs van s statement to me that she needed a rest at any rate one morning in mid august when the season was in full feather looking very pale and wan confessed to me that business had got on her nerves and that she was going away to a rest cure on the for ten days i just can t stand it for another minute she faltered real tears down her cheeks i mrs haven t slept a wink of natural sleep for five days and yet when night comes it is all i can do to keep my eyes open at the b last night i off four times while talking with the of and when the chinese asked me to sit out the with him i m told i actually in his face a woman who can t keep awake all night and sleep properly by day is not fit for society and simply got to go away and get my nerve back again you are very wise i replied and i wholly approve of your course there is no use of trying to do too much and you have begun to show the strain to which you have been yourself your failure last friday night to land mrs s dog collar when her french sat in your lap all through the is evidence to me that your mind is not as alert as ii adventure of the hold up usual by all means go away and rest up ill take care of things around here thank you dear said she with a grateful smile you need a change too what would you say if i sent all the servants away too so that you could have a week of absolute tranquillity it must be awful for a man of your refined to have to associate so constantly with the the under and the nothing would please me better i returned with alacrity for to tell the truth society below stairs was rapidly becoming to my taste the were all right and the under being properly subject to my control i could when they grew too familiar but the were intolerable on more than one occasion their quick irish wit had put me to my to maintain my dignity and i had no mrs of late that their alleged at my expense had made even the in a most fashion s suggestion promised at least a week s from this sort of thing and as far as remaining alone in the beautiful lodge was concerned to a man of my literary and artistic tastes nothing could be more desirable i can put in a week of solitude here very comfortably said i the constant have a very excellent library and a line of reading in abstract morals in full calf that i should very much like to get at so be it then said with a sigh of relief i will take my de next saturday after the s on island the servants can go saturday k n after the house has been put in order you can order a fresh supply of champagne and cigars for yourself and as for your meals ii adventure of the hold up don t you bother about that said i with a laugh i lived for months on the dish before i found you again and i rather think the change from game birds and p t de f to simple eggs and bread and butter will do me good and so the matter was arranged the servants were that owing to mrs van s illness they might take a on full pay for ten days and herself prepared society for her departure by fainting twice at the s on island no less a person than mrs herself brought her home at four o clock in the morning and her last words were an to her dear mrs van to be careful of herself for all our saturday morning departed saturday afternoon the servants followed suit and i was alone in my glory and oh how i in it mrs the beauties of lodge had never so revealed themselves to me as then the house as dark as the tomb without thanks to the closing of the shutters and the drawing to of all the heavy before the windows but a blaze of light within from cellar to roof i spent whole hours over the treasures of that treasure house and all day sunday and monday i spent over the books in the li a marvellous collection though for the most part wholly everything moved along serenely until wednesday afternoon when i thought i heard a noise in the cellar but investigation revealed the presence of no one but a stray cat which up the cellar steps to me in response to my call of who s there true i did not go down to see if any one were there not caring to involve myself in a personal encounter with a chance tramp who might have wan adventure of the hold up in in search of food the sudden of the cat satisfactorily explained the noises and i returned to the library to resume my reading of the origin of the where i had left off at the moment of the interruption that evening i cooked myself a rabbit and at eight o clock arrayed in my i returned to the library with a book a bottle of champagne and a box of prepared for a quiet evening of absolute luxury i read in the light of the dying day for a little while and then as darkness came on i turned to the board to light the electric lamp the lamp would not light i pressed and pressed every button in the room but with no better results and	27
then going through the house i tried every other button i could find but everywhere conditions were the same apparently there was mrs something the matter with the service a fact which i cursed but not deeply for it was a beautiful m x night and while of e i was disappointed in my reading i realized that after all nothing could pleasanter than to sit in the moonlight and smoke and of champagne until the crack of this i immediately proceeded to do and kept at it pretty steadily until i say about eleven o clock when i heard unmistakable signs of a large coming up the drive it as far as the front door and then stood panting like an impatient steam engine while the a person of medium height well muffled in his coat his features concealed behind his and his mouth covered by his collar loudly on the front door once then a second time who the devil can this be at this hour of the night i wonder i adventure of the hold up as i responded to the summons if i sought the name i was not to be gratified for the moment i opened the door i found two pistols upon me and two very determined eyes peering at me from behind the not a word or i shoot said the intruder in a voice evidently assumed before i could get a word from my already somewhat champagne twisted tongue lead me to the dining room well there i was taken by surprise not too wide awake comfortably filled with champagne and in no particularly fighting mood what could i do but yield to call for help would have brought at least two bullets crashing into my brain even if any one could have heard my cries to assault a scoundrel so well armed would have been the height of folly and to tell the adventure of the hold up me securely to the back of the chair now hold out your f hands j i obeyed and he bound them as tightly as though they were fastened together with rods of iron a moment later my feet and knees were bound and i was as fast in the toils as when the fell upon him in his sleep and bound him to the earth and then i was a mute witness to as keen and high handed a performance as i ever witnessed one by one every item of the constant s silver service valued at ninety thousand dollars was removed from the and taken along the hall and placed in the of the next the safe in which lay not only the famous gold service used only at the very functions said to have cost one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for the gold alone to say mrs nothing of the exquisite but it made me my teeth in impotent rage to see it s own jewel box containing a hundred thousand dollars worth of her own gems and some thirty thousand dollars in cash was of its contents and disposed of to the silver in the gaping of that damned now said the intruder my feet and me from the chair take me to my lady s there is room in the car for a few more objects of i obeyed on the instant and a few moments later the scene of was repeated with me powerless to resist pictures k and other things to the tune of twenty thousand dollars more were removed as calmly and as coolly as though there were no law against that sort of thing in the world there cried the as adventure of the hold up he returned after the last item of his had been away in the vehicle that make an interesting tale for friday morning s papers it s the biggest haul i ve made in forty eight years good night sir when i am safely out of town i ll telegraph the police to come and rescue you from your present awkward position and let me tell you if you give them the slightest hint of my personal appearance by the i ll come back and kill you see and with that he made off closing the door behind him and a moment later i heard his infernal down the drive at full speed twelve hours later in response to a long distance message from new york the police came bounding around to the house and found me tied up and unconscious the had at least been true to his word and as he had the mrs morning papers on friday were full of the story of the most daring robbery of the accurate stories in detail under huge scare type appeared in all the papers the losses of the constant as well as the of the jewels and money of mrs van the whole country rang with it and the afternoon train brought not only by the score but the representative of the constant and herself she was highly hysterical over the loss not only of her own property but that of her landlord as well but nobody blamed me the testimony of the police as to my condition when found fully my story and was accepted as ample evidence that i had no criminal connection with the robbery this was a great relief to me but it was greater when my hand and called me poor old for i must say i was j adventure of the hold up worried as to what she would think of me for having so poor a guardian of her property since then months have passed and not a of the stolen property has been recovered the constant bore their loss with as became them since no one could have foreseen such a misfortune as overtook them and as for mrs van she never mentioned the matter	27
again to me save once and that set me to thinking he was a clever rascal you say she asked one morning yes said i one of the best in the business i fancy a big fellow she grinned with a queer smile oh about your height said i well by the she retorted if you give them the slightest hint of my personal appearance i ll come back and kill you see mrs the man s very words and then she laughed what i cried it you was it she returned why the devil you should go to all that trouble when you had the stuff right here is what me said i h it wasn t any trouble she replied just sport you looked so funny sitting up there in your and besides a material fact such as that hold up is apt to be more convincing to the police to say nothing of the constant than any mere story we could invent well you d better be careful i said with a shiver the are clever true she answered gravely but you see the was a man and well i m a woman dear i can prove an by the way you left the cellar door unlocked that wednesday i found j adventure of the hold up it open when i in to cut off the electric lights you mustn t be so careless dear or we may have to up our spoil with others marvellous woman that the adventure of mrs s was visibly angry the other morning when i took to her the early mail and she discovered that mrs van had got ahead of her in the matter of the monkey society had been very much interested in the reported arrival in america of this wonderfully who could play the as well as and who as a on the piano was vastly the superior of because taken in his infancy and specially trained for the purpose he could play with his feet and tail as well as with his hands it mrs s had been reported by dare the leading authority on that he had heard him play s variations on with his on a piano on a with his feet and home sweet home with his tail on a harp simultaneously in paris a year ago and that alongside of all other musical of the age became mere he s a whole in himself said and is the only living creature that i know of who can tackle a whole without the aid of a hired man of course society was on the qui for a genius of so an order as this and all the wealthy families of with one another for the privilege of being first to welcome him to our shores not because he was a mind you but for art s sweet mrs sake mrs offered twenty five hundred dollars for him as a week end guest and mrs immediately went her bid a hundred per cent better in order to every one else promptly put in a bid of ten thousand dollars for a single evening and had supposed the bargain closed when along came mrs s cards announcing that she would be pleased to have mrs van at house on friday evening august th to meet the eminent it s very said as she opened and read the invitation i had quite set my heart on having here not that i care particularly about the music end of it but because there is nothing that gives a woman so assured a social position as being the hostess of an animal of his particular kind you remember how com mrs s mrs the from mrs two seasons ago with her dinner don t you i confessed to having read something about such an incident in high society well said this would have thrown that little episode wholly in the shade of course mrs is doing this to retain her grip but it me more than i can say to have her get it just the same heaven knows i was willing to pay for it if i had to with a national bank to get the money it isn t too late is it i not too late echoed not too late with mrs s cards out and the whole thing published in the papers it s never too late for a woman of your resources to do anything she has a mind to do said i it seems to me that a person who could a i s mrs library the way you did should have little difficulty in lifting a of course i don t know how you could do it but with your mind well i should be surprised and disappointed if you couldn t devise some plan to accomplish your desires was silent for a moment and then her face lit up with one of her most charming smiles do you know that at times in spite of your supreme stupidity you are a source of positive inspiration to me she said looking at me fondly i ventured to think i am glad if it is so said i sometimes dear you will find the most beautiful flowers growing out of the mud perhaps hid in the dull of my poor but honest gray matter lies the seed of real genius that will the loveliest blossoms of achievement well anyhow dear you have mrs s started me thinking and maybe we ll have at lodge she murmured i want to have him first of course or not at all to be second in doing a thing of that kind is worse than never doing it at all days went by and not another word was spoken on the subject of and the and i began to feel that at last had reached the end of her ingenuity though	27
for my own part i could not blame her if she failed to find some plausible way out of her disappointment wednesday night came and consumed by curiosity to learn just how the matter stood i attempted to sound on the subject j should like friday evening off mrs van said i if you are going to mrs s you will have no use for me shut up she returned abruptly i shall need you friday so mrs night more than ever before just take this note over to mrs this evening and leave it mind you don t wait for an answer but just leave it that s all she arose from the table and handed me a scented addressed to mrs and i faithfully executed her errand the s butler endeavored to persuade me to wait for an answer but assuring him that i wasn t aware that an answer was expected i returned to lodge an hour later appeared at the back door and handed me a note addressed to my mistress which i immediately delivered is waiting asked as she read the note yes i answered tell him to hand this to mrs the very first thing upon her return to morrow evening she said hastily off a note and mrs s putting it in an envelope which by chance she left so that on my way back below stairs i was able to read it what it said was that she would be only too happy to oblige mrs and was very sorry indeed to hear that her son had been injured in an accident while running into boston from bar harbor it closed with the line you must know my dear that there isn t anything i wouldn t do for you come or come woe this i handed to and he made off on my return was dressed for travel i must take the first train for new york she said excitedly you will have the music room prepared at once mrs s will be given here i am going myself to make all the necessary arrangements at the new york end all you have to do is to get things mrs ready and rely on your ignorance for everything else see i could only reflect that if a successful issue were dependent upon my ignorance i had a plentiful supply of it to fall back on made off at once for providence by and got the midnight train out of boston for the city where from what i learned afterwards she must have put in a day on thursday at any rate a great sensation was sprung on on friday morning every member of the smart set in the ten o clock mail received a little engraved card stating that owing to sudden illness in the family the for that evening would be held at lodge instead of in the house friday afternoon s private and particular piano arrived at the lodge and was set up promptly in the music room and later when the arrived with the supper mrs s for the four hundred odd guests to the feast all was in readiness for them everything was running smoothly and although had not yet arrived i felt easy and secure of mind until o clock when mrs herself drove up to the front door her color was unusually high and had she been any but a lady of the i should have said that she was she demanded rather than asked to see my mistress with a born of the snow mrs van went to new york wednesday evening said i and has not yet returned i am expecting her every minute madame she must be here for the won t you wait indeed i will said she abruptly the indeed and she herself down in one of the drawing room chairs so hard mrs that it was as much as i could do to keep from showing some very concern for the safety of the furniture i must say i did not envy the meeting that was in prospect for it was quite evident that mrs was mad all through in spite of my stupidity i rather thought i could divine the cause too she was not kept long in waiting for ten minutes later the with in it came thundering up the drive i tried as i let her in to give her a hint of what awaited her but mrs me only however to be herself h my dear cried as she her waiting visitor it is so good of you to come over tm pretty well out with all the arrangements for the night and i do hope your son is better my son is not ill mrs van mrs s said mrs coldly i have come to ask you what not ill cried interrupting her not ill why that s the most extraordinary thing i ever heard of why am giving the to night then instead of you that is precisely what i have come to find out said mrs why well of all queer things said down in a chair surely you got my note saying that i would let play here to night instead of i did receive a very peculiar note from you saying that you would gladly do as i wished said mrs beginning herself to look less angry and more puzzled in reply to your note of wednesday evening said certainly you wrote to me wednesday evening it was delivered by your own man i think his mrs name is about half past seven o clock it was wednesday yes did carry a note to you from me on wednesday said mrs and in it you said that you were called to boston by an accident to your son in his that you might not be able to get back in time for	27
to night s affair and wouldn t i take it over protested mrs van vehemently said mrs showing more surprise than was with her high social position and attend to all the details your very words my dear said with an admirably timed break in her voice and i did and told you i would i immediately put on my travelling gown to providence had an all night ride to new york on a very uncomfortable went at once to s agent and ar mrs s ranged the change to send the supper to my house instead of yours drove to s and had the cards rushed through and to everybody on your you know you kindly gave me your list when i first came to and attended to the whole thing and now i come back to find it all a er a mistake why it s positively awful what can we do was a perfect picture of despair i don t suppose we can do anything now said mrs it s too late the cards have gone to everybody you have all the supper not a has come to my house and i presume all of mr s instruments as well have come here turned to me all madame said i briefly well said mrs tapping the floor nervously with her toe i ms mrs don t understand it never wrote that note oh but mrs i have it here said opening her purse and the paper you can read it for yourself what else could i do after that innocence on a monument could have aj no of than at that moment she handed the note to mrs who it with growing amazement isn t that your handwriting and your crest and your paper asked it certainly looks like it said mrs if i didn t know i hadn t written it i would have sworn i had where could it have come from i supposed it came from house said simply glancing at the envelope well it s a very mysterious affair said mrs rising and mrs s i oh well my dear woman i i can t blame you indeed after all you have done i ought to be and really am very much obliged to you only whom did you have at dinner wednesday night dear asked only the duke and of and mercy i wonder if he could have done it who asked ejaculated mrs her eyes beginning to twinkle do you suppose this is one of dare s jokes h m mused and then she laughed it wouldn t be unlike him would it not a bit the naughty boy cried mrs that s it mrs van as certainly as we stand here suppose just to worry him we never let on that anything out of the ordinary has happened eh mrs splendid said with let s act as if all turned out just as we expected and l of all even mention it to him or to his neither of never said mrs rising and kissing good bye that s the best way out of it if we did we d be the laughing stock of all but some day in the distant future dare would better look out for mrs van and so it was agreed and successfully landed mrs s incidentally was very and the function went off well everybody was there and no one would for a moment have thought that there was anything strange in the transfer of the scene from house to lodge who wrote that letter mrs s i asked late in the evening when the last guest had gone who do you suppose my boy she asked with a grin no said i youve guessed right said as a let me say that until he reads this i don t believe dare ever guessed what a successful joke he upon mrs and the fair even then i doubt if he what a good one it was on everybody xi the adventure op mrs s cook it is curious said hen the other morning after an unusually late breakfast to observe by what qualities certain of these families have arrived as the saying is the of course belong at the top by patent right having invented american society or at least the machine that at present it are entitled to all the it brings in the got there all of a sudden by the sheer of their entertainment and their ability to give bonds to keep it up the van flowed in through their un mrs s cook questioned with the and the of the two of the oldest and most respected families of the united states by the qualities of the present mrs in the doing of unexpected things the thanks to the fact that mrs is the acknowledged mother in law of three british two italian and a french are safely in the social haven where they would be and the that mrs has written a book that is a trifle her firmly in the social but the with only eighty thousand dollars per the with nothing a year the with an income of judgments the study of their arrival is mighty interesting it doesn t interest me much i indeed this american mrs smart set don t appeal to me either for its or its cried with a silver ripple of laughter do be careful an from you my dear y you ll be down with if you don t watch out said i with a shrug of my shoulders neither you nor my dear old friend ever gave me credit for any brains i have a few however which i use when occasion demands i don t waste them here laughed save em for some place where they ll be appreciated	27
maybe in your old age you ll be back in dear old london to punch if you are careful of your wits but how do you suppose the ever got in here he holds the divorce record i believe said i he s been married to four social leaders already hasn t he mrs s cook well he got into the swim with each marriage so he s got a four grip said i and the asked how do you account for them most attractive and said i they got all the laughs at dinner to the of and their man tells me they re the things going at week end parties because of his ingenuity at leading and her charms as a by jove she s that easy with men that even i tremble with anxiety whenever she comes into the house but how do they live they haven t a cent to their names said simplicity itself said i he is dressed by his and she by her and as for food they take home a suit case full of it from every mrs house party they attend they re so gracious to the servants that they don t have to think of tips and as for and mrs s maid they re paid on the staff of the town and are willing to serve for nothing for the opportunities for the connection gives them well i don t envy them in the least said poor things to be always taking and never giving must be an awful strain though to be sure their little party out to and back was exactly and with car fare and and the champagne supplied free by the for the advertisement it cost them exactly twelve dollars and was set down as the affair of the season said i i call that genius of a pretty high order i wouldn t pity them if i were you they re happy mrs s cook mrs though i envy her said that is in a way she has no conversation at all but her little dinners are the things of the season never more than ten people at a time and everything cooked to a turn that s just it said i i hear enough at the club to know just what mrs s position it s her cook that s what does it if she lost her cook she d be mrs there never were such such such made dishes as that woman gets up she turns into a and liver and bacon into a delicacy beef in her hands is a discovery and her are such that a bit of roast hide tastes like the tenderest of when served by her no wonder mrs holds her own a woman with a cook like could rule an empire a moment later i was sorry i had mrs spoken for my words her must have her cried what mrs i asked no her cook said i stood aghast full of sympathy as i had always been with the projects of mrs van and never in the least on moral to any of her schemes of acquisition i could not but think that this time she j to go too far to rob a of his bonds a national bank of its a of a library or a of a diamond all that seemed reasonable to me and proper according to my way of looking at it but to rob a neighbor of her cook if there is any worse social crime than that i don t know what it is you d better think twice on that proposition i advised with a gloomy shake of the head it mrs s cook is not only a mean crime but a dangerous one to boot success would in itself bring ruin mrs would never forgive you and society at large society at large would dine with me instead of with mrs that s all said i mean to have her before the season s over well i draw the line at stealing a cook said i coldly i ve robbed churches and i ve made way with fresh air funds and i ve helped you in many another legitimate scheme but in this mrs van you ll have to go it alone oh don t you be afraid she answered i m not going to use your charms as a bait to this into the in which you with your form yourself you t to do it at all said i it s worse than murder for it is twice in the t t i mrs while murder is only mentioned once what cried what pray does the say about rd like to know first thou shalt not steal you propose to steal this woman second thou shalt not thy neighbor s maid servant how many times does that make i asked dear me said but you are a little aren t you anybody d know you were the son of a clergyman well let me tell you i sha n t steal the woman and i sha n t her i m just going to get her that s all it was two weeks later that left the employ of mrs and was in our kitchen and strange to relate she came as a matter of charity on s part having been discharged by mrs the friday before s arrival requested me to get her a mrs s cook rusty nail a piece of gravel from the drive two hair pins and a steel nut from the what on earth i began but she shut me off with an imperious gesture do as i tell you she commanded you are not in on this venture and then apparently she but i m willing to tell you just one thing here her eyes began to	27
twinkle i m going to mrs s to dinner to morrow night so look out for by monday i turned away you know how i feel on that subject said i this business of going into another person s house as a guest and their servants to leave is an of the laws of hospitality how would you like it if mrs stole me away from you s answer was a is mrs smile you are free to better your condition she said but i am not going to rob mrs as i told you once before she will discharge and i will take her that s all so do be a good boy and bring me the nail and gravel and the hair pins and the nut i secured the desired articles for my mistress and the next evening she went to mrs s little dinner to miss and her lord dull eldest son of the duke of who had come over to america to avoid the scrutiny of the court taking the absurd objects with her upon her return at a m she was radiant and triumphant i won out i won out she cried how i inquired mrs has discharged though i begged her not to she fairly sang i o mrs s cook it on what grounds several said her glove to begin with there was a rusty nail in my and it nearly choked me to death i tried hard to keep mrs from seeing what had happened but she is watchful if not and all my efforts went for naught she was much of course and all went well until the fish when one of the two hair pins turned up in the to the supreme disgust of my hostess who was now beginning to look worried hair pin number two made its d but in my this was too much for the watchful mrs self poised though she always is and despite my she excused herself from the table for a moment and i judge from the flushed appearance of her cheeks when she returned five minutes later that somebody had had the riot act read to her somewhere i i mrs s cook use it to keep mrs from so when the was passed i managed without anybody s observing it to drop the nut into the bowl the duke of got it and the climax was mrs burst into a flood of tears and well to morrow leaves you will take her this ten dollar bill from me and tell her that i am sorry she got into so much trouble on my say that if i can be of any assistance to her all she has to do is to call here and i will do what i can to get her another place with this retired and the next morning on her way to early church i her eyes were red with weeping but a more indignant woman never lived her discharge was mrs was no lady the butler was in a conspiracy to ruin her and all that indeed her mood was most to mrs the of s plans the ten dollar bill was soothing and indicated that my mistress was a woman and surely would come in the evening to ask her aid it s ruined i am somebody be good to me and give me a which mrs bad to her won t do at all at all she and then i left her she called that night and two days later was in the van s kitchen a new treasure was added to the stores of our but somehow or other i have never been happy over the successful issue of the enterprise i can t quite make up my mind that it was a lady like thing for to do even in xii the last adventure i am bathed in tears i have tried to write of my sensations to tell the story of the last adventure of mrs van in terms but though my pen runs fast over the paper the ink makes no record of the facts my woe is so great and so deep that my tears falling into the ink pot turn it into a so thin it will not mark the paper and when i try the pencil the words are scarce put down before they re blotted out and yet with all this woe i find myself a possessed of sums so far beyond my wildest dreams of fortune that my eye can scarce take in the breadth of all the figures my dollars mrs into silver placed on top of one another would form a tower that would reach higher into the air than fifteen of st peter s placed on top of seventeen of on the summit of in notes laid side by side they d suffice to paper every scrap of bedroom wall in all the houses in the world and invested in copper they would turn the system green with envy and yet i am not happy my well beloved s last adventure has turned my fortune into bitterest and plain forms the finish of my interior for she is gone i amid the splendor of my new found possessions able to keep not one but a hundred cars and to pay the s to chairs in to build in every hamlet in the land from to richard to eat three meals i the last adventure a day and lodge at the st and to my taxes without exciting suspicion am desolate and forlorn for i repeat has gone the very nature of her last adventure by a successful issue has blown out the light of my life she has stolen if i could be light of heart in this tragic hour i would call this story the adventure of the lifted but that would be so	27
out of key with my emotions that i cannot bring myself to do it i must content myself with a of the simple facts of the to which my beloved s ambition led her without and with a heavy heart of course you know what all has known for months that the constant were seeking divorce not that they loved one another less but that both parties to the south suit loved some one else more colonel had long mrs been the most ardent admirer of mrs and mrs constant s devotion to young harry de had been at least for two seasons evident to any observer with half an eye had taken himself out of the way by to south africa with of the and harry de s only recorded marriage had been by the courts because at the time of his wedding to the forty year old of the boarding school for boys at island he was only fifteen years of age consequently they both were eligible and provided the constant could be so on by the laws of south as to free them from one another there were no reasons why the of these ardent souls should not all be gratified indeed both engagements had been the last adventure announced and only the of the decree the constant from their obligations to one another now stood in the way of two ceremonies which would make four hearts beat as one mrs s was ready and that of the future mrs de had been ordered both ladies had received their engagement rings when that inscrutable marked constant for her own colonel had returned from having broken the bank twice and had met him at a little dinner given in his honor by mrs he turned out to be a most charming man and it didn t require a much more keen perception than my own to take in the fact that he had made a great impression upon though she never mentioned it to me until the final blow came i merely noticed a growing in her manner mrs in her attitude towards me which changed i think she said to me one morning as i brought her and toast that considering our relations to each other you should not call me after all you know you are here as my butler and there are some that should be observed even in this atmosphere but i protested am i no more than that i am your partner am i not you are my business partner not my social she said we must not mix society and business in this house i am mistress of the situation you are the butler that is the precise condition and i think it well that hereafter you should recognize the real truth and avoid by addressing me as mrs van if we should ever open an office for our company in j the last adventure new york or elsewhere you may call me you please there here however you must be governed by the etiquette of your let it be mrs van hereafter and is it to be mr i inquired her response was a cold glance of the eye and a majestic sweep from the room that evening colonel called to look over the house and as landlord to see if there was anything he could do to make it more comfortable and i blind fool that i was for the moment believed that that was his real errand and ventured to remind of the in the roof at which they both i thought exchanged amused glances and he gravely mounted the stairs to the top of the house to look at it on our return dismissed me and told me that she would not require my again during the evening mrs even then my suspicions aroused although there was a dull feeling about my heart precise causes i could not define went to the club and put in a able evening returning home midnight to discover that colonel was still there he was apparently giving the house and it contents a thorough inspection for when i arrived was the fifty thousand dollar piano in the drawing room for him with a brilliant rendering of o promise me what decision they reached as to its tone and quality i never knew for in spite of my hints on the subject never spoke of the matter to me i i should have begun to guess what was happening under my very nose then thank heaven i am not of a suspicious nature and although i didn t like the looks of things the inevitable meaning of their strange behavior never even dawned upon my the last adventure even two n later escorted at from a lecture on the of ai at mrs s it did not strike as of as do be two te that piano again and the same tone ihe rides began p every re society was awake i t the ber machine for i i for the oc rt in as a i ii the of guess bow h be extended to our one i did notice however was a coldness between and mrs ton the latter came to party at lodge one noon about two weeks after s return and her to her hostess instead of having t old time was to degree in fact when they hands i doubt if more than the tips of their fingers touched moreover mrs hitherto considered one of the best fists at bridge or hearts in the actually won the prize which i saw her throw into the street when she departed it was evident something had happened to disturb her my eyes were finally opened by a remark made at the club by de s who asked me how i liked my new and whose explanation of the question led to a complete revelation of 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miss another anxious to be miss a third desirous of being won miss a fourth not averse to gallantry miss a fifth looking for a miss prudence a sixth with her cap set vi the cast miss de a seventh except in years where she is easily first being quite thirty seven ready for anything front esq a of hue one invalid and other characters who may be introduced at random as long as they do not speak also one competent to serve in place of an the man i the office of a summer hotel at new it is one of those comfortably arranged offices that does duty at the height of the season as a gathering place for guests after breakfast and dinner where men may smoke if there are any to smoke and they wish to do so and the women to put embroidered centre pieces and other things together while pulling apart the walls are decorated with of summer hotels in distant parts of the country of time tables and portraits of imaginary that were not caught in the adjacent streams at right is at left is huge open fireplace at rear the man is desk for etc all the clerks are women there is one colored bell boy who also runs the above the mantel piece the head of a shot eight hundred miles from the hotel is to the chimney breast and placidly through its glass eyes upon all that goes on within range of their the action of non speaking characters in the play is continuous carrying in trunks the incessantly running the footing up columns of figures and upon the end of her an occasional passes through carrying a large tray holding dishes of milk toast etc the only masculine life in sight consists of the colored and an invalid who for the sake of in the play is frequently rolled across the rear of the stage in a wheel chair the man curtain rising seven summer girls sitting in a group sewing knitting and time a brilliant morning in mid august opening chorus music that of opening chorus of patience seven lone maidens we not a man to ease our woe all the season we shall be seven lone maidens love on hope they say or love will die all ah yet on the bill of fare no hope we spy all ah the man alas for us we sit and sadly plan all ah a summer in an without man all ah chorus all our love is wasted quite all our go for naught not a single youth in sight by our glances to be caught i all ah oh glancing eyes thy glancing all is wasted oh starving heart the sweets of love r the man oh fancy free what boots a fancy flitting when all thy dreams awake to empty knitting all ah what a cruel fate indeed is ours wealth beauty everything to make us attractive and here in this of the hills our with or without the k as if we had committed some awful crime that us out of men s society if we only had one man it would be something we could have him one day a week apiece at least isn t it surprising that our do not take the man up this awful summer hotel situation instead of and chairs in at how much better would seven young men be for us than all the in the world and it wouldn t cost so very much either men are so cheap in town that s very true but a better plan would be for the department stores to take it up certainly if they are to deal in and and butter and eggs there s no reason why they shouldn t have a line of then we could telegraph to town and secure a few on approval of course prudence i d for a regular weekly service and i too a new young man served every monday just as they send you books from the book s library i wonder what would happen the man if we did wire for seven young men by return m il prudence they have better looking ones at oh no prudence the men are so sort of common don t you think for perfect gentlemen jones are haven t any of you any brothers we can send for i have one but he is only seven and an terrible at that but where is impatience this morning she hasn t joined us for three or four days past what do you suppose she is up to i haven t an idea she s so mysterious about her plans i the door opens impatience impatience good morning everybody anybody lend me a this morning it s a glorious day for a walk the man it ill becomes you impatience just because you have no particular liking for men to us impatience you never i with you all but will not help action action that is what the emergency demands mysteriously sh come here come close i ve a plan ah rise and group themselves about impatience impatience music the s chorus y from of when there s something that you lack and your heart has gone to don t sit down and merely and give up all earthly hope id the man all visibly brightening impatience when you cannot find the thing that will bring all softly smiling impatience why go in and promptly act till the thing you seek s a fact ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ii the man all we ll go in and promptly act till the thing we seek s a fact ra ra ra impatience now that s what i have	27
done and there s going to be some i have settled on a all eagerly impatience that will give us all a man all the man impatience i ve devised a little scheme all impatience that will prove a perfect dream all impatience if it works out as it should all expectant impatience it should be well pretty good the man all hurriedly ra ra ra ra i ra ra ra we ll accept it as we should if it turns out pretty good ra ra ra ra but what is your scheme impatience you cannot charm us with a song you know even if we have joined in the chorus we have music a plenty but of schemes it is simple enough have you read the of this hotel all yes but it says nothing about excellent links and beautiful drives in the the man but alas no promise of male society in fact everything but the thing we most desire who cares for nineteen different kinds of hot bread for breakfast with no at the or for magnificent views from the surrounding hills without a pair of man s eyes to share them or long walks alone with nothing to talk to but the and the birds impatience laughing how sad indeed your unhappy fate so sad that you have overlooked the great promise of the waters all the waters you speak in impatience impatience you are so blinded by your woes you will not see but listen takes circular from her pocket and reads is the man but it is of the waters of the hills we would chiefly speak who that has tasted them but becomes ever after their champion life giving read some of the oh dear what waste of time impatience impatience reading the comers n j august gentlemen permit me to thank you for the case of hill water received last week it is all that you claim for it i was unable to move to think to speak or to act one of your wonderful water has put me on my feet again in fact it has brought me to life send two more cases at once c o d yours always faithfully rev well what of it impatience oh how dull the man s the man a minister he wouldn t try to deceive anybody would he all no impatience well if the water brought him to life why wouldn t it bring another man to life indeed this circular is full of similar letters hill water gives life to all but what man you ve got to have some raw material to work on impatience there isn t even a dead one in this neighborhood impatience running to rear and securing a huge bundle which she brings back to front i have been busy for four days doing what do you suppose cuts string and begins to tear away all eagerly what is it impatience this huge doll from parcel the man and it by the neck before them ail a man impatience the very same let me introduce him ladies may i present mr er ah mr of er mr my friends miss jones miss miss miss miss miss prudence and miss de likewise your most servant patience generally known as impatience all courtesy impatience doll each what lovely eyes they have all the sparkling vivacity of a pair of shoe buttons he hasn t much conversation has he arm he s a dream of beauty but a trifle soft for me i the man where did you get this fascinating impatience impatience made him him myself while you girls were and why i for one do not care for impatience wait until we have cast a spell upon him draws up an to centre of stage will your majesty please be seated doll in arm chair face to audience hands out stretched on arm of chair now mr front a glass of fresh spring water please bell boy hot or cold wet or dry with or without impatience without delay mr front afresh from the spring therefore cold in fact the kind that gives life bell boy aside it s rotten water when i drink it it makes me want to exit music of the man until boy returns with glass of water which he hands to impatience s enough water in glass to raise all impatience let every maid who feels afraid at heart let every one who d like to depart the things we ll see may horrid be i tell you at the start lights grow dim impatience advances to doll and places glass at its lips the man song impatience music etc from the spirits of the hills of mountain tops all ye and other and all ye rural come down come down come down voices from without we ve just arrived from town i impatience all ye things and hill top with yellow curls out in rags come down come down come down i the man voices from without we re here to do it brown they are coming those of the hills tis only the humming of bills impatience let tis ask of the kindly who guard us with friendly eye that on what the states we may surely all rely that a glass of this water cold on this plainly printed plan will this mould to a man the man chorus op spirits tis done tis done you have your way now for the fun and light of day impatience and tis done tis done we have our way may it be fun and not dismay i impatience ye mountain heights and flights ye and bears	27
ye bills and towering hills ye lame chairs ye powdered and pas and other parlor tricks smile on our plan to make this man and ease our summer fix the man pouring water into mouth of man drink the first all tis the worst impatience repeating operation drink the tooth all youth impatience drink the third all hath occurred voices from without hath occurred now let us see ha ha ha what comes out of number three ha ha ha the man and r aside we have prayed to the kindly who guard us with kindly eye and on what the states we fear we must now rely stage goes wholly dark voices all points of the compass ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha there is a roll of thunder a flash of lightning and stage becomes brilliant again the young ladies stand back somewhat awed im slightly to the fore gazing in astonishment at the doll which sitting in the chair has suddenly come to life thb doll his eyes and gazing about him in amazement as the man where am i at and what s my name is this all real or just a game impatience you are a man a man constructed from an old and stuffed with cotton rags and the doll a grin and you art too springs forward to seize her impatience him and he begins a shuffling dance and song song the man music m a most intense young man from patience oh i am a man i m made of an old the man embroidered with stuffed with a mixture of rags and chorus oh the man a most original man embroidered with brains he s not got any man the doll i m a man a toes made of timber man and though made of i dance like a i only just now began chorus oh the timber young man oh the man the man a double loose man doll well ladies this is an pleasure i had no idea last evening when my fair friend miss impatience here was sewing my eyes in and putting the finishing touches to my ears and my that to day would find me a living creature like the rest of you instead of that genial but bit of creation known to history as an are your eyes really in doll yes miss with cotton thread and can you see through them doll no ma am they are made of shoe buttons which are not transparent but i can see through the the man little button holes by which they are surrounded and mr have you have you a heart doll a which a heart doll never heard of such a thing what s it like an impatience something it goes of its own power at least doll and is all the time blowing up and off at a and into something and raising generally a perfect description of a heart mr doll really well no i haven t one but i d like a few if you ll kindly direct me to the heart shop and er lend me a dollar i ll get one for myself and maybe buy some for each of you impatience hearts are not bought they are won the man doll then i will play the game to win one what is it impatience the game of love doll love impatience love doll my i what a lot of nice new things i am finding to day this world seems a pretty good sort of place do you know i like that word love it an idea to my cotton brains it gives a strange thrill to the bright particular of rags with which my left side is it brings to these shoe buttons of mine all these what doll these shoe buttons oh i forgot i should have said these eyes of mine it brings to these eyes of mine a soft and feeling which me as to whether i should crack my lips by smiling till i break the thread tiiat my ears to my the man head or my button hole of vision by the shedding of an tear aside he is simply fascinating shakespeare be no worse if his brains are cotton send me a man with a ain t he grand doll have any of you ladies got hearts impatience all of us have them doll lend me a few just to play with won t you you certainly don t all need them this morning do you hearts are not to be played with mr but tell us what is your notion of love doll love well let me see reflecting love is a mystery eh it is to me anyhow but as i think about it it s like this the man song the doll music if you want a receipt from patience if you want a receipt for that popular mystery known to the world as the passion of love take all the in newspaper history whether they come from below or the dash of a writer of genius of a the notions of when speaking of loyalty this for the lover who isn t quite true the science of the eminent wit that s spontaneous fresh from the the man the devotion of such a maid with a sentiment wholly for you feeling of for george washington in r e of lord love of the for passion of edward for life that s respectable magazine poetry moves for reform any old thing that is easy and warm take of these elements very melt em all up in a thing let em boil down and then from above and the prize of the effort is love love love chorus yes yes yes	27
yes the prize of the effort is love love love the man you are a mr doll not i listen sings if you re seeking another receipt for this sentiment cherished by all men from adam to the of germany he is the i meant men of the or chill take all the affections the brother and feeling of for dear little caress of a plaster that s joy of a her the pride of a mother when bright little plays a rich joke on his uncle or other kin smile of a father a trifle hysterical watching his hopeful when kicking the the man direct for the goal bliss of a beggar when a roll take of these elements highly leave out whatever is not quite respectable let em boil down and then from above and the prize of the effort is love love love y chorus yes yes yes yes the prize of the effort is love love love that is far better mr your as to love are pretty but you cannot avail yourself of them you have a heart i cannot give you mine no nor even lend it to you for it is far away in fact it has already been played for and won but these other maidens the man they all have them large beautiful hearts which may be won if you only play according to the rules doll according to the rules eh impatience yes let me tell you what is my idea of love and then then you will better understand sings song impatience music cannot tell what this love may be from patience i ll tell you about this sentiment that the world to some extent it to all in some queer form sometimes it is cold sometimes it s warm it to one but deep regret it with bliss another yet to some it is pain to others joy to some it is gold to some but everywhere true love you ll see it to you it comes to me no matter at all where we may be the man and that is why we smile true love is with us all the while love is the land or sea la la la la la chorus yes that is why we smile true love is with us all the while love is the land or sea la la la la la i some call it a thorn but they don t know some think it as icy as the snow some away when love appears some greet him with smiles and some with tears but love is a painter soft of mien who the and yellow green it deep in the maiden s heart and to life from s dart the man and everywhere true love you ll see it to in tie tree to beasts of the field and forest free and that is why the glad world smiles for love is with it every love is a land or sea la la la la la chorus yes that is why the glad world smiles for love is with it every love is a land or sea la la la la la doll well i suppose i ought to understand and i think i would if you hadn t stuffed my head full of instead of brains but it doesn t make any difference whether i love or not what is clear is that i must have a heart to keep it in e that s it the man doll just as an has to have a to keep the in you ve got it doll or a has to have a check book to keep his money in you think remarkably well with that gray matter of yours mr ain t he grand i doll and then there are rules for this game of love unless you are a mr doll a what is a it sounds rather attractive impatience aside how of you to mention such a thing in the presence of this child of severely to the doll a is a robber a who breaks into the bank of love and away its treasures that he may them a is a in con the man science who issues notes of affection at ninety days them and fails to pay at maturity a is a who the heart into a stock company and issues shares to the amount of a times its value and upon the confiding public at par on his interest and when the stock falls to eleven and an eighth his offence by making large gifts of to the community doll my i but that sounds nice nice nice really impatience i fear you ve put a of in where mr s conscience should have been doll but aren t nice don t people trust them it must be nice to be trusted impatience oh dear but this is a hard case that s just the trouble mr people do trust them the man but they don t play according to the rules doll ah i see and not to play according to the rules that is wrong impatience very and those who don t are punished severely if we find you mr wool we ll we ll well we ll desperately you i back in dismay doll hoarsely the rules the rules such an fate oh the rules impatience the rules oh ma am give me the rules that must prevail in s schools and i ll obey i promise thee lest i should bear the penalty and horror should be the man impatience now listen ye we ll tell it thee the single rule of s school alas ah well a day for you if this you impatience doll and chorus music true love must single hearted be from	27
for each heart that is the true true lover s part when in dan s busy exactly so curtain scene ii the same man on alone save for the clerks hall boy etc song the doll sorry his lot that loves but one music sorry her lot who loves too from sorry his lot that loves but one heavy the soul that hopes but singly black are the heavens and dark the dashed from his throne is deep is the that the breast fired for one and chilled for the rest is the hour and gray the day arid and waste as vast the man all exactly so girls form ring around doll and commence dancing and singing true love must single hearted be exactly so free from all vain exactly so one heart for one one for each heart that is the true true lover s part when in dan s busy exactly so curtain scene ii the same man on alone save for the clerks hall boy etc song the doll sorry his lot that loves but one music sorry her lot who loves too well from his lot that loves but one heavy the soul that hopes but singly black are the heavens and dark the sun dashed from his throne is deep is the that the breast fired for one and chilled for the rest is the hour and gray the day arid and waste as vast the man the car with alone doth set their heart strings all a and now alas poor dan sad little finds stead of hearts to shelter him from pain that he must act as some cold master s and guide his car through and rain ah what a change has come upon you that you should leave man s best gift in the pray whither have your ancient manners gone you no more escort your heart s desire to church what alas has dan poor little the man what has he done that you should treat him thus the fashion seems to me so very stupid and from some points of view preposterous doll and is that why when you constructed me you left out my heart reproachfully did you wish me to be as preposterous as all the rest impatience i intended to give you one later as soon as i was convinced that you were capable of using it properly we do not permit children to play with fire arms until they have been taught to handle them when you have shown your fitness to possess a heart mr you shall have one doll but i have i have i have i already have one dances about the stage holding the large heart high in s the man the air starts back in amazed dismay impatience where where did you get it come tell me doll in sing sang voice the the brought it to me points it at her isn t it a beauty impatience holding up her hands in horror out hearts are dangerous it may go off at any minute doll this one s doubly so it has been vacant starved and hungry for oh so very long that now impatience mr stamping her foot give me that heart right away this very instant i doll getting on his knees before her and holding the heart up who else more worthy than yourself i lay my heart dear impatience gladly at your feet places it on the ground e her from the very first it has yours will you take it s the man impatience embarrassed oh mr this is so very sudden aside what an awful i didn t mean it quite this way aloud do you really believe you love me doll this heart is all yours impatience i beg you will not it see how beautiful and large it is take it in your fair hand and see how warm it is and all of it is yours yours yours forever impatience aside what shall i do if i take it i am committed and what will happen later i if i refuse it enter she walks to the counter and the register hastily rises from his knees hurriedly heart from the floor and it into her work basket impatience aside she she d with anything my duty is plain if i don t take it he ll give it to the man her and until he is more familiar with the obligations that go with it may result i ll not have my man a doll aside to shall you keep it impatience yes aside and later i will tell him tis a brother s heart placed in a sister s keeping runs off stage gladly i ve disposed of one of them now for number two takes a second heart from his pocket and places it softly against his cheek how soft and warm it is to whom shall i give this choice morsel i wonder b the very one good morning miss a splendid morning for games of mr not for oil approaching her and whispering aw the man in her ear i was just talking about you me doll yes you i was just remarking what beautiful blue eyes you had what a lovely smile and how dear and sweet you seemed to be your wealth of golden hair that in the sun oh mr aside he s not so bad after all even if he hasn t any heart aloud to whom were you saying all these lovely things about me doll to myself to whom else seizing her by the hand should i confide the secrets of this my heart holds it out to her such words are too sacred getting on his knees for any ears but mine and yours from the first moment	27
i peeped through these shoe button holes and your loveliness dawned upon my inner i the man i resolved that when i once got a heart it should be yours and yours alone glancing anxiously about her oh do get up mr some one may observe us doll and why should they not to all the world i am ready to proclaim that this heart is thine i admit that i am not indifferent mr but are you sure it is all mine doll i give it into your keeping kissing him on his forehead and heart from his hands as she runs off i ll take it on approval exit doll but this is warm work wiping his brow my forehead is covered with i m so pauses and sits well ve worked off two of em in great put the case rather well for an too this proposing seems the man to be a sort of second nature to me enter good number three approaches a dainty one at that ah mr you here doll yes miss and hungry for companionship but why call me mr is there no less form formal i don t know your first name mr so how could i call you anything else softly is it jack doll jack jack is jack the name that is written in heart in letters of fire well not exactly that but it is a name i am awfully fond of doll it is fate aside i haven t got any other first name that i know of so why not jack aloud yes dear dear it is fate my first name is jack jack i the man never cared so much for it before i knew that you liked it jack that indeed is my name may i not hope to be jack to you forever oh mr doll ah cruel one mr again please i oh well then yes jack i know so little of you jack doll little of me ah what though we met only yesterday was it not written in the stars when adam first saw them twinkling in the that my heart was yours was to wait wait wait through all the centuries until you came to claim it that should set and pass and springs burst forth in blossoms yet still should number three i beg pardon i mean this heart rest empty till your radiant came to fill it full with and joy the man aside dear me what beautiful sentiment aloud you are a poet er jack doll and like all poets am i a beggar a beggar at the door of your affections sweetheart craving but a of your love if that is all but where is this heart that you offer jack i am deeply touched doll pulling it out of his pocket here i have kept it safe for you always for you may i not hope well hesitating yes jack you may only i must have a little time to look it over may i may i take it with me doll handing her the heart you may and you may keep it forever or if you find you do not wish to take it hence and bury it deep in some dear spot where some day you may come s the man again and let a single tear fall there for sweet remembrance sake burying her face in her handkerchief takes the heart and goes slowly off sobbing without a word doll by that wasn t so easy but two more like that would lay me up for a week hi boy bell boy doll bring me a of that water i m pretty nearly done up bell boy very good off sinks exhausted in his chair and his eyes having meanwhile taken a fourth heart from his pocket this he places on the arm of the chair as he rests enter she him apparently sleeping and softly to his side clasping her hands and at him he the man grand something really new at last in men oh if he only had a heart i think i should but the thought is even for one as old and apparently hopeless as i thirty seven last but marked down to twenty five then sighs ah me bargain that i am i don t she catches sight of the heart but what is this i see he a heart doll sighs deeply as reaches out to pick it up she back and hides behind his chair doll smiles and his eye doll stretching his arms and yawning oh but i am so tired to off again and a moment later over top of chair and seeing him apparently asleep softly back takes in her hand and kisses it the man i wonder if i dare steal it looks anxiously about her doll starts up and his eyes as if dazed with sleep hurriedly hides the heart under the folds of her wrap doll why is that you or is my dream still going on your your dream mr doll yes dear i was having such a beautiful dream i dreamed that you and i were walking side by side nay dear hand along a lovely path together oh mr i doll rising and putting his arm about her waist it was early spring the birds were singing singing always the blossom scented breezes blowing through the trees were the man down by the waters of the silver lake the rippling i mean on the virgin sands seemed to whisper oh mis and then beloved we came to a spot where twenty roads spread out in twenty different ways and	27
finger posts on each were marked to happiness clasping her hands oh mis doll but we took none of them dear no said we we ll go no farther but why did we not wish for happiness doll passionately ah no my love it was not that we had already found it oh ain t you grand i and er by the way must i call you mr now the man doll never again dear think of some name you love the best whatever it is is the one i care most for is it tom doll ah ah you dear you some one must have told you yes tom tom homely but on your lips seem a poem and i did not need doll tapping her on the arm to steal my heart no dear girl it was already yours heart from her wrap and after kissing it it close running off oh i am so happy tom dear but i must leave you for a while to read to mother i ll be back love in a little while oo won t be too will oo while i m gone the man doll i shall be in despair but your will is my law his hand to her where in thunder is that boy with the water mercy four proposals in twenty minutes that s the record they are making me work if things keep on at this rate i ll have to start a lovers union and get a bill through the our working day to eight hours enter bell boy with huge of water bell boy here y are u excuse me so but i wouldn t drink mo n one glass at a time it s dreadful stuff doll thanks for the well vice my cream i ready been warned but by have not properly my the man out glass of water and it ah that is refreshing up visibly that does put life in one out another and drinks it off begins to dance violently hi well i think it was stuff stop me will you tries to sit down but immediately up again and goes about the room stop me i say bell boy me but i with a saw i told you not to drink mo n one glass dis condition u have to off yo self doll h how long will it t tut take for this to off from rear well i should say yo might stop in about ten days enter and the man from left from right and prudence startled by s activity which is increasing mercy what has happened mr doll two stepping and seizing prudence in dancing fc to dance they two step together i heard you loved prudence dear and i am learning how just to please please y you prudence well you have learned very quickly doll dropping prudence and flying to just one turn with you my heart s desire and i shall die happy her they make a single turn of the office you dance mr the man doll dropping call me sweetheart what so soon doll seizing prudence and dancing why not is not the name of prudence written in my heart prudence your heart doll taking heart from breast pocket and pressing it into prudence s hand it wc mine but now it s yours drops prudence and dances towards prudence i fear a man so quickly won may soon be lost still for summer use he s better than nothing and he dances like a dream exit doll to now that we are alone beloved one taking arm chair pray sit down mr doll never dearest until you breathe that soft and wondrous yes that tells me hat this heart i offer you places it the man in her lap as he dances by is welcome in your eyes tis just a trifle perhaps but that s with ceaseless yearning for thy smile it it a trifle worn mr to how many others have you it doll i swear by all that s fair by your eyes by the smile i hope to win that never in my life before have i offered that heart to any one but you doubtfully it seems to have a crack across the middle of it how came that there doll it burst for love of you pray how else h ml if i m the one that broke it then it s mine to mend but i m not quite sure er doll james call me james love and make me the happiest the man i m not quite james if i can but i will try i ve never a broken heart before so i cannot make any rash promises will you let me try doll bowing low and kissing her hand it s all i ask now rising i ll go and get my needles exit waving her hand at him doll down my my my she was indeed a boon a bit cooler than the rest she s soothed my agitated nerves but there still are two to come perhaps i might live through one more love affair but two i i have it i ll write sits at small table at left boy a pen paper and some ink also a small bit of paper bell boy over counter at rear and re articles from clerk the man doll let s see what were the names of those two others f i ve given a heart to impatience one to one to one to one each to prudence and that is six h m the others were oh yes i remember and i ll send the next to enter a book in her hand to for here	27
es and miracles you find to serve your need the seed down in the darkness of the earth in regions void of joy and mirth a seed will rest by seeming of light by seeming blackness of the night possessed and then from out the wintry grip all on a sudden it will slip in hours to make on some glad day in may the prospect beautifully gay with flowers so in my wintry cares i i know despite the chill of present woe that holds me fast i m but an earth bound seed and i shall find the dawn of victory at last cl he o cf n n all life s a sea and we re all boys and girls and men and women rage and skies are clouded in a black mist oft water s deep and waves are current s sometimes hard to fight em single handed and sometimes perhaps we re but somewhere the voyage ended waits a harbor fair and splendid holding peace and rest to free all the of the sea cheer are you moaning o er your lot cause of things you haven t got well look here i ve made a list of the things perhaps you ve missed car in the mud with a dull and sickening three months note come due to day tax bill to pay patent leather shoes so tight you can t tell the left from right and oh the stomach slowly giving out all ready for the doctor s call and a thousand other straight from old s box think of these a little while and it may be you will smile as you contemplate your lot and the things you haven t got i the witty man s the soul of wit so the do report which is why i smiling sit when my purse is running he that laughs at poverty hath a wit that mc t is the sort beyond a doubt that some day will help him april held fast there is a chap whose high regard i m always going to keep i do not care a how hard or rough the path or steep as long as he believes i m right i ii keep straight on the way despite the critics who delight to harry and to for if i lose that chap s respect no matter what i do my life will be completely wrecked and covered o er with no praise of others could the loss of his and e en the honors of a throne would hide a name who is he well you and me he is the chap i daily see o mornings when it comes to pass i glance into my looking glass money money comes and money goes where it goes to goodness knows us clothes us pays the rent sometimes borrowed often lent makes a pleasant sound rather nice to have around but it never kept a friend broken hearts t will never mend as a substitute for right frequently it in sight but it is a substitute that holds mighty bitter fruit it rule when they use it for a tool and for want of it the roar of the wolf comes to the door i will take all i can get since it holds me free of debt i ii respect it for its power to relieve some pressing hour but for worship well for me god forbid that that should be the better plan some men make of their foes the names of folks they d like to give the hook but as for me along with other woes i hold their names and let my hid in a small book the world s been no doubt by memories but when the things remembered fail to please than memory o er strong t were truly better were we to cultivate a good foi over yonder over yonder over yonder see the toiling millions wander seeking rare see them in the depths of worry in the hurry and the overcome by care over yonder over yonder is it all worth while i as i m sitting here in the midst of fruitful labors with the love of all my neighbors filling me with cheer over yonder over yonder is it best to go i wonder i golden is its but with all its dangers lurking would i not be rather working where love is secure map have you got a garden where you gather wealth of the kind that comes from an abundant health there are other gardens full of human plants waiting for the looking for a chance do you weed your garden it of woe that the tender blossoms may more freely grow there are human blossoms choking mid the weeds of the stress of sorrow and their daily needs i in the human garden that s the place to work i that s the place where dangers to the flowers in the city in the of where there might be roses of the soul i o he o in sorry plight to owe nobody anything well that is not for me t would take away i rather fear quite half the joy of life i like to think of all the debts in loving sympathy i owe to those whose tenderness has me of my strife it brings a glow into my heart to think of all i owe to sturdy friends who when amid the cares of life i refresh me with their precious stores of love to kill my woe and for the sting of sorrow substitute the sweets of hope he is indeed in plight who hath no and does not know the joyous task of paying or the score i the vacant chair have you a vacant chair somewhere let it be filled by memory with visions fair of scenes that used to be	27
rare delights in gracious star eyed summer nights and days that us far from where the busy are and bid us joy in earth and sky with all the gifts of nature nigh the peaceful leafy lanes the meadows with the music of the laughing the noble beauty of the hills the heavens blue the air and rest apart from scenes of care my when so the sun shines on my way and my path through all the day or when some tree with grateful shade its service at my feet hath laid or when some river bears me on into some harbor and anon the moon and stars come forth at night to furnish me with needed light and as in dreams at rest i lie some sings its what just complaint can mine e er be with such attendants serving me o singing sweet the birds are singing in the wood because they feel that life is good and not a hint of care or wrong the sweetness of their song though cares and wrongs they doubtless find each one according to his kind for me as on my way i through wooded paths that must be trod with distant to be won beyond the glow of setting sun despite the vast that everywhere one looks one sees spite heavy heart and leaden feet may i too keep my singing sweet t the friend long years ago when i was but a lad once hurt and in spirit sad i chose for friend a star up in the blue and in its kindly smile forgot my the years have passed and friends have come and gone i tasted joy and passed through seasons wan things counted on have failed me and in tears i ve tried to drown my sorrows and my fears but all the while in happiness or pain in moments of success or efforts vain that kindly star as truth has stood my friend as in the days of youth f to rise at dawn with no one else about to tip toe off all bare of shoes to make the wood re echo with my shout to the meadows with dripping to plunge head first into some pool to lie upon some bank and the skies rejoicing jn the early breezes cool forgetting all but what around me lies in short to leave behind the stress and care of worldly with their pain and to song by of morning air just for a time become a boy again i ah what a plan in seasons of distress to ease the soul of all its weariness and send it back into the busy renewed in living strength to do its part o he cr my friend when from the skies the rain drops my friend remarks fine weather for the crops when from the east a chill wind loudly he smiles and says fine day to stay indoors when from the sun the heat streams fervently says he just right to sit beneath a and when skies hesitate rain and shine he sits and smiles and softly murmurs fine i in short er the weather s style or whim each day that comes is somehow fine to him with the result no matter what may hap by day or night he is a sunny chap a world without a future life i can t conceive the thought each human soul the merest of substance wrought with nothing to to with nothing here to gain with nothing rising higher than our pleasure and our pain just coming out of nowhere for a little while and then to turn and go to nowhere and sheer again there s nothing in the notion and your argument my friend itself by leading unto nothing in the end i t my will my fortune well it comes to but none the less i make my will the earth the air the sea the sky and all the things that in them lie with love and faith and constancy and hope and human sympathy and courtesy and and all the qualities that bless wherever found no matter where upon said earth or in said air being of sound mind i leave to all mankind and hope they use them just as free as though they d all belonged to me september hues now comes september over all the tints of summer and the fall in gay and to make a of gorgeous hues the which before the eye is spread to tell of joyous days ahead and bring all glowing to the mind the lovely hours left behind the gold the green upon the trees reflect our hopes and memories the golden hopes of days to be mixed with the of memory d the ashes of success he travels w j a maybe t is true that who travels alone travels the but what of the goal who cares for speed when the end is a stone void of the deepest of joys of the soul give me a comrade a friend that will share all of the sorrows and joys of the chase give me a spirit to ease me in care little care i how the pace i in solitude won they are naught i loneliness holds all the letters of loss give me sheer failure in wrought rather than fame that is i the house in order i admit i am not comely i fact is i am more than homely but behind my so well it s not for me to say what you ii find inside o that here beneath my hat but i ve tried to make the place somewhat better than my face orderly and clean and neat sunny cheerful fresh and sweet beauty s sure worth having but joy can dwell inside a hut and i ve found true happiness hid within the dress the new love and	27
the old a certain sage i know takes satisfaction in calling life a reaction and love with all its joyous an bit of if he s sincere when he shall wed he d choose for his bride a glass of water and be content for pleasures and for troubles with simple of and when he dies into a heaven pass that s just a of supernatural gas i but as for you and me my friend let us be ever found in the om love that makes the world go round the of youth let the young men come with clatter and hum and hands for the job that s to do let s never feel sad but rather be glad for spirits so youthful and true new tasks for the world are daily in seeking the ultimate truth new tasks to be done new to be won demanding the powers of youth so let us be glad for the and the lad now passing us fast in the race and welcome with glee the god sends to step into our place i ft a futile creed look here my friend with all your song and dance and all your scientific circumstance in which you try to prove the universe and life within it merely luck or worse the whole beginning and its ending pent within the hazard of some accident just take the sun the moon the stars we see with all their clock like regularity can you believe that all this and certainty so real are based on chance i don t and won t i couldn t if i would and what is more i would n t if i could success met a man to day who most people say is a great success nothing more nor less but ne er a smile upon his face pallid was his cheek and his wan lips quivered when he tried to speak could n t laugh and could n t sing as he walked along children made him nervous with their merry song looked with dark suspicion on his thought they d come to rob him of his gold and then i says says i as he passed by if that s success why when i dine just mix some failure in with mine ca o o er in the and yellow now here s a withered leaf from off an tree escaped from out the of summer s t is old and all the green hath faded from its gown and in the autumn keen its garb is sombre brown yet when some breeze it to dance how eager t is to seize the gay and joyous chance how merrily it and gaily and ever onward forgetful of regrets i here s hoping that in age e en as the leaves do our feet may trip the stage in dancing measure too i sir i m of woe what has become of the of what has become of the woes of job what has become of the trials sore hid underneath king solomon s robe where are the cares of charles the first where the tears that shed where are the troubles of thirst bore in the ages dead where are the of the long dead years s and s and all lost in the streams of forgotten tears dead gone and buried beyond recall gone o ye sufferer i gone for aye just as your troubles will fade away peace is eternal but trial and fear pass to the of the ul o a pleasant sight i ve seen full many a pleasant sight that filled my spirit with delight green hills the broad sweep of the sea the flame of some tree like some great torch the sky the love light in a lover s eye but none more glad i ever knew than that which flashed across my view when sitting on the floor to day i saw two merry at play a grand full of joy a playing with his boy pi ine cf friends and brothers why folks complain of loneliness is strange to me i must confess why every brook and every tree and every twinkling star i see hath something good to say to if you would find a that through the years will never slip be friends with all the stars of night all god s creatures with delight the breeze that blows the bird that sings the seas with mystic the stranger on the highway too is brother unto me and you in that great family a part whose home lies in the human heart i o o a pleasant task about the task i know is goin out most any day to find some full of woe a on his troubled way and if he s full o wrath an to make him smile or if perchance tears dim his eyes because of grief or some distress to help him from his sorrow rise unto the heights of happiness in other words if he is sad to make him glad there s many a way to turn the trick for human brothers in their need some pile the humor on too thick and failure waits upon the deed the best and is sympathy i oi he a c the free agent if trials hard pursue you and your heart is in woe be thankful you re not in the days of long ago if by you are wearied and distressed rejoice you were not moses by old oppressed if debt and have you in the and of dread be glad you were not charles the first who settled with his head and if you re chained to some chill post of daily slavery and not post ward where your spirit may be free the limbs of man his feet his hands may be in but steel was never fashioned yet	27
to chain the human soul r w l the day if life seems dark and dreary and forlorn just rise and see the new day borne upon the wings of and from the of that lovely hour gain courage fresh a sense of new born power to grasp the gifts of opportunity the young day sets before you all free i thrust woe behind you and let yesterday its own in trouble pay and with the smiling sun keep pace and tread the path unto the goal that lies ahead ca i md j the and waste not eyes on books but seek the autumn and and in their music and their glow find from thy load of woe or if perchance thy path shall lie where ne er a brook runs gaily by where are not stand not apart but contemplate the throbbing heart that in the rivers free of hurrying humanity and seek the where suffering holds others its shadowy wing and there forget thine own in helping others carry theirs i e int soul free life s hanging round my neck may hold my body here in check but ne er a e er shall be to hold my soul in slavery where it would it away far back perchance to yesterday or far ahead to some fair shore the distant future holds in store into the depths unto the heights it and drinks deep of delights that seem the greater for the pain of body in the of gain let body moan its slavery and groan because it is not free but in my soul the songs i sing with which the hills of freedom ring november gifts november days with air and mornings come and smiling nature everywhere presents a kindly sort of face frost diamonds cluster round her brows a and from her over she pays the his debt the grain she heaps up high reward for him who s used her well and fortune s gifts right she over hill and her treasury she opens wide and bids us share the gleaming wealth that lies in view on every side in corn and coin and rugged health once out upon a lonely way upon a cold and wintry day i saw a small bird tempest and sore beset by frost now hither blown now hurried there by rushing currents of the air a picture full of sad regret that worried winged thing and yet he d light upon some tree where his green used to be to rest his wearied little wing and there despite his woe he d sing he d sing the only song he knew his note was clear his note was true and then back to the fight he d fly and bright of when some rocky path ye tread do your with your head but when sympathy is due let your old heart speak for you who knows maybe some distress can be cured by foolishness better than the wisest plan ever yet devised by man rapture withered leaves are dancing with the breezes harvest are smiling with their stores swift are with the laughing autumn s stars are beaming through the crisp night gleaming birds are southward full of joyous singing hill and and river in the sunlight quiver thrilling with o er the joy of living i the i care not what the weather says from this time on i m making my own days and if without the roar and spin if so i choose i have sunshine within or if i need the rain and skies are bright i know just how to bring dark clouds in sight though truth to tell i plan to on cheery days with brilliant sunny skies a gleam with joy and leave the other style for solemn folks who d rather frown than smile as to the english tongue sometimes i fear would strike a man from as queer for instance when some people say t is sad to see one pine away they do not know the kind of pine that so this soul of mine when i observe it front the ill of winter with its bitter chill its green persistent in the face of every blast that comes its head held high against the sky whatever tempest passes by and mid the as serene as in the summer soft and green it simply pines and pines away and strength day after day and stands erect er may be and takes what comes how wondrous fine t would be i say if folks would only pine that as to waste if all the waste were used my dear want would shortly disappear and not a soul in all the race would stand with hunger face to face if all the waste were used and this to sympathy and tender true humanity for all the human brood my dear and not alone to food my dear if all the waste were used i so who become a for those that starve for sympathy and fill with food the multitude whose souls grow faint for just a taste of that we re letting run to waste but would be fed and comforted if all the waste were used hi o the teacher woe came to me one day and quietly we talked and when she went her way my troubled path i walked for she despite her had given unto me a vision bright and clear she pointed clearly out and plain just how it came about that i had suffered pain and while she d made me wan with trial and distress she helped me start upon the road to happiness there never was a good black night that did not point the way to light i o he o sometimes when feeling close confined and shut within a narrow sphere it s rather pleasing to my mind to gaze off in the heavens clear and	27
the promise the dead christ prose the complaint the mixed cup prose i shall depart time flies a voice from the sick room prose g log tents of hope he songs in the night last good night and prose hope earth not the christian s home we sorrow not as wi hope prose the messenger bird our is homeward bound midnight sunday prose the risen prose dost remember me t is i be not afraid the only perfect one prose tlie dying christian tlie request complete in him prose trust in god a prose thou shalt know hereafter thine eyes shall see tlie king in his beauty prose all is well we shall meet what the daughter of the cloud said prose this is not home the soul s consolation prose we see through a glass darkly words of cheer for fainting christians prose the dying year of god the star of god made me poor contents the stranger guest a long delightful walk prose the servant is not above his master the sacred page behold how he loved us love your enemies the orphan prose ye did it not to me hear and help me farewell no mother to a mother on the death of her child in goodness is true greatness the of the the s lament when shall i receive my prose alone with the lost babe the day of wrath the s safety prose mu j he country of which furnished a home ih for the virgin mother of our lord is not the only i rural region from have come women en with intelligence and integrity and religion who by pen and tongue have brightened and the hearts and homes of thousands amidst the of nature instead of the bustle and bewildering attractions of city life they have grown strong to do battle for the right and to bear testimony to the truth as it is in of this class is the one whose life and labors we are now to consider is an lake two thirds of which lie in the eastern of canada in the province of and the upper third in its extreme length from north to south is about thirty miles its breadth varying from one to three miles it is semi circular in form and with islands while on its western shore rise mountains of no ordinary attractions among them owl s head which towers about feet above the surface of the lake affording from its summit a view of surpassing loveliness it was at the outlet of this lake there was born mar the youngest daughter of b and wild johnson and there she spent with the exception of the time devoted to attending or teaching school almost her entire life of cities she knew nothing by experience but as her reading was extensive she knew much of the world by mental the book of nature was her delight its illustrations of stones and streams lakes and rivers mountains and forests birds and flowers were ever attractive to her at an early age she began to exhibit rare poetic talent of a number of short pieces between the ages of twelve and fifteen years the following entitled the forest has been preserved it appeared in the journal a paper to which she afterwards frequently contributed it was probably the first article she ever had printed let others seek sweet s voice when grief the spirit let them find solace in the tones of their beloved friends but oh when sorrow o er me give me the dark the dark green woods when pleasure lights the sparkling eye and with rapture proud let others spend their joyous mirth within the giddy crowd but when o er me no clouds are seen give me the forest dark and green when pure devotion fills the heart and breathes a yearning prayer let others wander to the church and pay their tribute there but if o er me such feelings steal li the dark forest let me kneel when death comes o er the pallid brow to number with the dead sketch let others choose some lovely grave where tears will oft be shed but let me let find a tomb deep iu the forest s darkening gloom her life was not one of thrilling adventure escapes and deeds securing worldly applause but quiet and useful her constitution was naturally weak her brain too active for her body and as a consequence much mental and physical suffering was her portion to her studies french latin and drawing besides the english branches she was very devoted nothing pleased her better than to be alone with books pen and pencil or to wander forth in garden or field being of a very and retiring disposition she felt alone even in company her leaves give evidence of this under date of june for example she writes how lonely i feel to day and my rebellious heart will repeat the question why was i created thus i stand alone and why i know it is my own self that makes me so but how can i make myself otherwise i have tried very hard to overcome my what shall i call it it seems as though it could not be wholly that i have seen those the world called but they were not at all like myself oh no i am wretched at times on account of this when i see myself all alone different from those around me i cannot stay the burning tear though i would gladly repress it i cannot soothe the anguish that fills my heart and yet i feel that this is wrong that it ought not to be thus why should i feel so keenly that i am alone that i am strange earthly scenes will soon be over wild flowers and if i am only a i shall	28
never feel alone in heaven oh thought there will be no strange being there god prepare me for that world and i will no longer complain of my loneliness on earth no longer sigh that i am not like others at this time miss johnson was not a professed christian her parents had endeavored to bring her up in the fear of the lord and a belief of the gospel and to attend the services of the her life had been one of strict morality she believed in god but had not taken christ as her personal and confessed him before men as she felt she should her conviction of sin however was deep and on another day in the same month she says earth thou art a lovely place and some of thy inhabitants are as lovely and happy as see that beautiful bird with shining and brilliant crest and hear the melodious notes that arise from its silvery throat its form beauty and its song happiness see those snow white over the grass now beside their mothers then springing forward bounding from to and filling the air with strains of joy and delight see yonder butterfly weighing itself upon that brilliant flower his gorgeous wings are expanded and glittering in the sun like sparkling gems see those bright eyed children their glowing cheeks their beaming eyes and above ail their clear and merry laugh happiness pure and unbounded earth is truly lovely but its inhabitants are not all happy oh no not all for one who loves the beauties of earth in the life of nature and finds her chief pleasures in the spreading grove by the brook among the brilliant flowers is sad and unhappy and why because she has learned too soon that there is no such thing as real and abiding happiness on earth that the fairest plants that pleasure is a phantom false and fleeting truly she has learned all this and will she never learn to raise her eyes to that bright world where true happiness only and to trust meekly in him who is the only of peace and joy later we have another entry in which after again referring to the beauties of nature she life life i fain would read thy mysteries i fain would draw aside every and behold for what purpose i was created was it to be an heir of sorrow was it to live for myself alone and then pass away and let my memory perish with me no i was born for a better a higher and more holy purpose i was not born to pass a few moments on the stage of life and then disappear forever with a shudder i turn away and would gladly forget to think o thought thought thou wilt me thou hast almost hurled reason from her throne thou bitter depart if but for a moment and let me once more find peace but no the more i seek to still nearer the demon thought thought it rushes forth from my soul like the wild of the mountains and me with its burning tide till body mind and soul all all are exhausted and lie like a straw upon the roaring bosom of the deep oh that i could arise mingle with the gay and forget my own deep thoughts but no such thoughts like the soul gave them birth can never die wild thought what art thou a blessing to angels a curse to me distracted soul sink into repose others are happy and thou born to be more wretched than they truly thou and why because thou only in the regions of thought thought which is burning my brain and piercing my heart and yet a thought with light beams through the dark clouds which its darker sisters have thrown around me and the only inscription which it bears is live for others and another thought follows in rapid succession like a far off echo it the words of its live for others and then adds while a vivid flash of the lightning of truth lights up the darkness of error live for god and for heaven a loud crash follows of thunder shake the atmosphere of my soul self has fallen i will live for others for god and for heaven this was a grand resolve but not yet was the to be out of prison the pilgrim to be freed from the of once more she has to write everything is beautiful and all nature is glad and rejoicing arise my soul and be thou glad likewise cast off thy gloomy fears the god who made all the beautiful things by which thou art surrounded is not of thee oh wondrous condescension god is not forgetful of e he upon me with an eye of compassion he my distress and my weakness amazing love oh that i were more worthy of it oh that i loved him as fervently as i ought but my heart is and i am nothing but a poor cold vile and helpless sinner nothing but sin dwells in my heart it is the seat of every vice every evil thought and every passion mark dark and gloomy clouds envelope my soul a weight of sorrow presses upon life sketch my and i vainly strive to free mj self from its influence everything looks dark my god my god why hast thou forsaken me why art thou so far from helping me how long wilt thou forget me lord forever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me mine are gone over my head as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me lord all m desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee make haste to help me my soul for thy salvation but i hope in thy word my god hear my and	28
last supper which christ partook of with his presented itself to my mind and then i looked forward with joyful hope to the day all the saints of god shall eat bread in his glorious kingdom when all of every age and shall be gathered around the table and christ himself be in their midst it was a soul inspiring thought and for all the wealth of a thousand worlds like this i would not have been absent from that communion from which i had so often myself yes i had never before of the lord s supper and it my own wicked heart which had kept me away for god had called loudly upon me and his holy spirit had again and again life sketch with me oh what a sinner i have been and what a long suffering god i that he did not cast me off forever oh what mercy bless the lord my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name bless the lord my soul and forget not all his and now have i forsaken all for christ have i thrown body soul and it upon the altar i do want to sacrifice everything for christ and bi the grace of god i will x the following when my duty appears plain i will do it whatever may be the consequences i will never be ashamed to confess christ before the world i will my talents entirely to the lord i will never employ my pen in writing anything which i might regret at the bar of god i will never permit any one of my to be printed unless i can in sincerity ask the blessing of god to attend it as i shall be brought into judgment for every idle word i say i will endeavor never to engage in trifling conversation but on every proper occasion to speak of the wondrous grace of god i will whenever a good occurs warn my young companions to flee from the wrath to come i will strive to set my affections on things above not on things on the earth by the assistance of the holy spirit i will endeavor to keep evil thoughts out of my heart and to upon the law of god i will never pass a day without seeking some secret place at least twice a day and pouring out my soul in prayer to god wild i will study the holy and endeavor to understand what i read i try to do all i can god assist me to perform what i have written in thy fear and to thy glory i am perfect weakness but thou my frame thou that i am dust i know thou art merciful oh give me a more exalted faith help me to come boldly forward and claim thy promises as mine humble my pride keep me at thy feet let not the temptations of satan overcome me but may i trust myself in thine arms may i love thee fervently above everything else better far than my own life i can do nothing unless thou dost assist me oh support me and save me at last in thy kingdom for christ s sake in the evening of that ever memorable sabbath she aloud a few words of prayer at the family altar and next day as she was then teaching had prayer in her school thus she confessed with the mouth the lord while in her heart she believed that god had raised him from the dead immediately after the son of god himself was he was in the wilderness tempted of the devil j it need not be thought strange therefore if his followers soon after their are also by the same adversary this young christian did not escape him entirely yet from that day until her death though conscious of much weakness and having many dark days and great sufferings she never her to the king of kings who had bought her life sketch witli his blood a few more from her will show the working of her mind about this time a calm and quiet morning a soothing calm over my soul faith with triumphant wing rises far above the scenes of earth and points to that glorious world where christ for me before the throne of his father the doubts which have so long filled my heart are sinful and to god and i will no longer give place to them i will look away from myself from my sins to the holy lamb of god i will trust in him and in his merits alone for acceptance sunday what i have done to day would once have seemed impossible the cross that i have taken up would have seemed almost i could not have believed the last time i attended the prayer meeting that at the next one i should stand up as a witness for christ but thank god my proud heart has in some degree been and the dearest hope i now cherish is that christ may not be ashamed to confess me before his father and all the holy angels a while standing this evening by the grave of one dearly beloved in life and cherished more fondly now that death has taken her from my embrace i could not stay the soaring flight of fancy which would to my mind in vivid colors our meeting at the great and the thought that that meeting was so near that in a very little while the grave should lose its power and that she would come forth in immortal beauty filled my soul with transport and almost brought to my lips the yearning cry come lord and come quickly on the th of august miss closed her wild flowers and after spending a few weeks at home went to the academy at centre	28
under of wednesday we have this entry in her journal attended the exercises to night and read a composition they could not have liked it for it was upon a subject which must be disagreeable to the world and yet it is the subject nearest my heart one that i love to dwell upon and to hear about the coming of my blessed when will the glorious loud and repeated cheers were given when miss read her composition well it was good such as would suit the world but not mc strange being tliat i am but i shall not always be so in heaven i shall not be a stranger there i can converse with the saints dearly beloved for their conversation will be on the things of god and my himself to address me there why should i not then long aye long to obtain that state and yet i sometimes fear that i shall fall far short of it for i am so vile and the composition referred to we do not find among her papers but much that she has shows that she was indeed deeply interested in that blessed hope she was a decided and stood identified in her church with the on her year she said this evening while looking back through all the events of my life what is there that me most it is one that the past year has brought forth one that will ever be remembered with deep and powerful emotions the day that consecrated me to life sketch the lord when i breathed forth with a fervent heart give me or else i die and i was d to take up my cross and follow my in here there is no regret expressed for the step she had taken nor did she ever feel any though she greatly her weakness and in the lord s service and why not listen to her under date of june how sweet when the soul has no earthly support to fly to the of ages the is precious to the heart of the sinner there is nothing like the love of he is not like other friends wearied by our complaints and the repetition of our sorrows but is always and to hear and answer every cry of the spirit smiling ever in the darkest of and forever dropping the of consolation into the distracted breast oh what a privilege to have such a friend such a sure and steadfast friend such a wise and friend and he is my friend yes he is s and therefore mine for surely nothing but wondrous love could have led him to die a cruel and death for me as i am thou art my friend and i will be thy friend thou love me fu st and i do love thee but not as fervently as i should nor so much as i desire god give me more of thy holy spirit may it every passion tear every idol from my heart and that heart entirely to thee the only journal notes of considerable length which miss johnson seems to have made were for the years and those for and g were wild flowers entered in a daily miniature we find none for other years she always kept her pen and pencil busy in some way as long as she had strength to write the for is in rhyme usually six lines being allotted to each day while some of the verses are playful and witty most of them are religious and plaintive the following are given as specimens arose at six o clock today how swift the moments sped away engaged in duties claimed awhile my care and pope of time a larger share with all his sweets and beauties ml and wife came here yesterday through the changing scenes of life onward be their way and never may their be rough so long as they are good enough received of robinson to day for my address a little pay the first of cash i ever had for writing verses good or bad o lord er my gains may be the tenth i to thee i would not seek the haunts of mirth for in the scenes of earth are hovering grief and care but oft i find a soothing at twilight s calm and peaceful hour in secret prayer oh name how sweet it sounds to me come want come grief come death or shame i ll cling my lord to thee e sketch i d rather be distressed with doubts and find no sweet release than be content to settle down in false repose and peace but ah i wish i knew my name in the lamb s a place could claim here distressed i lie what joy my heart doth thrill at the thought that loves me still sweet sabbath to me it brings as if on angel s airy wings visions of peace and rest i seem to stand upon the plains where an sabbath and dwell the pure and i wept when lo my heart to cheer j sobbing whispered in my ear cry for i will serve tlie lord how sweet the sound what great i how little comfort have i known in this dark of tears for sorrow marked for her own in s early years and ever since by night and day has hovered round my lonely way twas nearly two but sleep had fled my pillow for the i rose but all was k around and i could no light and then i knelt and prayed for those who like me found no sweet repose sick sick and gloomy all the day sick sick sick thus life wears away flowers murmur not my troubled soul at thy father s dealings wild the round thee roll yield not to the feelings of despair	28
that gather round troubles rise not from the ground job how many souls around the throne once suffered here like me like me discouraged tempted tried but now for ever free they shout their and trials o er then let me fear and doubt no more at home all day i cannot pray can neither read nor think o god i cry the waves roll high support me or i sink did i murmur that tlie rod was so heavy o my g od i forgot the cursed tree i forgot i forgot the grief and pain may i ne er forget again unworthy as i am i for mercy lamb his name his glorious name when every other fails it opens heaven s eternal gate then doubting soul longer wait sabbath after sabbath comes when will dawn the endless day swiftly roll the wheels of time swiftly pass the hours away brighter and brighter from afar we now the morning star and we alas are called to part farewell is said with aching heart but god will watch o er thee life sketch and guide thee through each trying scene my dearest sister the glorious sun his race has run and sweetly sought repose o tliat for me this life might be as bright as calm its close what an awful peal of thunder i o my soul be still and wonder yet another and another each one louder than the other god of heaven i see thy power may i feel it hour by hour a thousand twinkling stars to night look down with soft and silvery light and tell the majesty divine of him who gives them leave to shine oh what an must i be and yet he loves and cares the wheels of time how swift they roll dost consider o my soul that it shall soon be said to thee time was time no more shall be then seize upon the present hour improve it to thy utmost power in the fall of miss johnson was by disease and nearly all the time afterwards confined to the house so numerous and complicated were her difficulties as to the skill of all the who saw her and no one knows the amount of suffering she endured her mind however was active and vigorous and though there were seasons sometimes quite protracted when to her the heavens above seemed as brass and the earth iron yet god did wild not lier the sunshine succeeded the storm and the peace that gives was poured into her wounded heart to her in and the two following years she writes those were days and nights of anguish but i now look back to them with feelings of regret for my feet had only touched the dark and my lips had only tasted the cup from which i was to drink the very early in the spring of i was seized with fever and acute of the stomach which brought me to the verge of the grave i could feel the warm tears of beloved ones upon my cheeks as they bent tenderly over me i could see the dark just ahead though there was a light amid the darkness but my sufferings were not to be so soon terminated gradually my disease assumed a form and said there was no hope the little nourishment i could take distressed me so terribly that the very thought of eating made me shudder and my stomach became so sore that i could not be moved from one side of the bed to the other without uttering a cry of pain winter spring summer and autumn in turn visited the earth and with each i thought aye longed to depart but the great had his own purpose to there was a little fine gold but the rendered it useless the ordeal through which i am passing is indeed a terrible one but i know where peace and consolation are to be found and there are times when i can say in sincerity thy will be done thursday she wrote bright beautiful da many people on the ice her brother there over our dwelling is a shadow it falls upon our spirits and we are sad life sketch will it never be removed god grant we may be patient and grateful for the blessings we do enjoy for are not friends true tender friends tbe greatest and of blessings and while we have them god forgive us for murmuring at his dealings the last in her are very sick tuesday rd no better it is uncertain when the following lines were written but it might have been about this time i m going home to that bright land of rest where pain and grief and sickness are unknown the j ear begins in sorrow but will close in joys that never end i m going home last year the warning came on sunken eye and wasted cheek i gazed and thought to spend my christmas with the angels god knows best and here i linger weary sufferer still the morning comes long watched for long desired the day on and then the sleepless night but this will have an end it must be soon about six weeks before her death she was taken with and everything she took distressed her and for the last twenty three days she took no nourishment save what water contains her prayer close to the cross close to the cross god grant i may be found when death shall call my spirit hence or the last trumpet sound was indeed answered her end was very peaceful and happy for several weeks not a cloud seemed to pass over her mind and though often in great distress there was no impatience manifested nor did a murmur escape her lips she said it is	28
nothing to wild flowers die the sting of is sin and sin is taken away the sting is gone on another occasion she remarked i have often heard the words sung can make a dying bed feel soft as pillows are and thought they were not strictly true but now i know that they are perfectly perfectly so once as we stood by her bedside she observed her mother and sister weeping and with a countenance beaming with joy sufficient to remind us of pet she expressed surprise remarking it seems to me i am only crossing a narrow brook and as i look back i see you all coming we shall soon meet her view of her own weakness and was indeed clear but she had such faith in her as enabled her to say dying seems to me like laying the head back and closing the eyes just to open them in a few moments on the joys of paradise the following lines written with a pencil on the cover and blank leaf of her french testament were the last she ever wrote they are dated march just ten days before her death and give evidence of the clearness of her intellect and the strength of her faith while passing through the valley of the shadow of death i know thou art the living word each blessed promise to myself i take i would not doubt if i had only heard this this alone never will i have no fear the sting of death is sin and christ removed it when he died for me life sketch washed in bis blood my robe without within has not a stain tliat god himself can see wrapped in the s arms i sweetly lie far far behind i hear the roar i have been dying but i cease to die my rest begins rejoice having expressed a wish to be visited by all her acquaintances many called to see her with whom she conversed freely on the interests of their soul with great composure she made arrangements for her departure leaving books and other articles to her intimate friends one day she made a request that i should preach her funeral sermon for a moment i hesitated because of relationship married her sister then remarked that i supposed there would be no in doing so as i recollected that preached his wife s to which she immediately added and preached his mother s on asking if she had thought of any passage to be used as a text she replied i first thought of the words i shall be satisfied when i awake with thy likeness but you know that is all about and now i feel that christ is all it is all christ so i have thought of his words in the th of john i am the and the life she also suggested to her sister that the following hymns which were with her should be used on the occasion come let us join our cheerful songs with angels round the throne on s stormy banks i stand and cast a e wild flowers joyfully joyfully onward i move bound for the land of bright glory and love the joyous character of the hymns will at once be noted and this was the very reason why she selected them she considered that they would be more expressive of her condition than the mournful ones which are so frequently used at two of her poems seem so appropriate here that we them the former was written in june and the latter bears date the name acts round my dying bed ye stand and kiss my cheek and clasp my hand oh whisper iu my failing ear the only i care to hear the only name that has the power to comfort in the dying hour let neither sob nor sigh be heard but still repeat that sacred word until the solace it like upon your hearts and i in triumph gladly sing o dreaded death where is thy sting and when released from sin and clay my happy spirit away and pauses at the heavenly gate where saints and smiling angels wait and views the city bright and fair that name shall be my there oh then in calm and holy trust give my poor body to the dust assured that god will guard the clay until the day when he on whom my soul in thunder tones will bid me rise life sketch amid the earth devouring storm made my s glorious form from sickness and pain i awake to life again and soul and body both shall be with throughout eternity adieu you will miss me when i am gone at morning at night and noon i have needed your arm to lean on i shall need it no longer soon i ve been helpless for many years no burden you always said i have claimed your pity your prayers and tears you will miss me when i am dead how many a dreary night you have watched by my couch of pain till the streaming in of morning light you will never watch again god not all away the bitter and sweet he and i bless his name by night and day that he has not denied me friends you have shared the heavy load which alone i could not have borne i am going now to a bright abode but i leave you alas to mourn you will miss me when i am gone as you never have missed before i have needed your arm to lean upon but soon i shall need it no more i lean on my s breast in this hour of pain oh strong are his arms and sweet my rest farewell till we meet again the	28
the wrong so easy to do right new hopes began to bud and bloom like blossoms in the spring my heart o with tenderness for every living thing i was no more the thoughtless girl by idle fancy led life seemed to me reality and yet i did not dread to walk along its path i should not walk alone another and a better life was blended with mine own one blessing more and then you said our joy would be complete your prayer was answered when i sat at the s feet and deeper grew our love our union was to be not only for a lifetime here but for eternity thus peacefully we along till that day when all the labor of our hands like was t away we saw our home made desolate our pleasant cottage sold men called us poor but we were rich in better things than gold for we had lived an honest life we could look up and say wild flowers we never wronged a fellow man nor turned the poor away we held a treasure in our arms which every care he never never for took the child there is a little mound of earth where when the spring appears we watch the and water them with tears oh it were more than earthly love that soothed a parent s woe when there we laid our darling down full twenty years ago sometimes my heart grows sad and sick when to the past i turn and for a sweet and gentle voice to call me mother i see the silver in my hair the lines upon your brow and oh i wish our boy had lived to be our comfort now one moment then the wish is o er the sun begins to shine i lift my h art in and say thy will is mine tis true of poverty and pain we both have had our share but do you think in all the world there is a happier pair i know the harvest time is near i know the stands before us and i tremble much lest he our hands but god will be our strength and shield our refuge in that hour and he will join our hands again beyond the s power now let me wipe away those tears forget my gloomy talk and with your own improve the scene and our walk so that with e s melody our hearts may be in tune and send up incense like the flowers this pleasant day in june an evening meditation how softly yonder pale star beams above my head to night how beautiful it appears in the vault of heaven where twilight holds the connecting link between day and night oh if my soul were freed from its how swiftly it would fly if such a journey were possible to the boundaries of that sweet star can that fair planet seemingly so pure and be inhabited by beings as frail and as ourselves can there be any sad souls there to night any who are weeping over hopes and prospects it may be so and yet perchance such a thing as a pang of sorrow and a burning tear are unknown for it may be sin has never entered there vain useless conjectures but will wild flowers tlie veil which hides the scenes of other worlds from our eyes never be surely it is because god is merciful that i have been through another day i cannot forbear wondering that i have been so long that i have not been cut down as a of the ground god according to thy loving kindness preserve me grant that i may yet be an humble instrument in thy hand of doing something for the good of thy cause forgive my sins and at last receive me to g july it is a lovely scene the sun has set but left his glory in the western sky where daylight half yet that sombre night her sister nigh and one pale star just from on high tis neither day nor night but both have l heir own peculiar charms to please the eye declining day its heat has spent and calm refreshing night its grateful coolness lent the lake is sleeping on its quiet breast are clouds of every tint the wear some are in crimson some in gold are dressed oh had i wings like yonder birds of air how i would love to dip my there then mount to the heavenly gate a song of love and gratitude to bear to him who gives the lowly and the great in earth and sea and sky so glorious an estate it is the time when angels are abroad upon their work of love and peace to men scenes from the dazzling throne of god they come to earth as joyfully as when the tidings ran o er mountain and o er a son is born a and a king for they have tidings glorious as then since tokens from our risen lord they bring that life has been secured and death has lost its sting the twilight o er the distant hill a veil is spread of soft and misty grey and from the lake so beautiful and still the images of sunset fade away the twinkling stars come forth in bright array which the splendor of the glare a holy calm the bustling day and gentle voices stealing through the air proclaim to hearts subdued the hour of grateful prayer nature s hark it is the robin crying he has heard the voice of spring from the woods the crow is flying and the is on the wing slowly now the sun is each day nearer to the west all things tell the year is changing nature from her rest lower sink the snow	28
daily half the pasture lands are bare and the little streams leap from their chains to breathe the air wild while the barren earth care worn mortal come away listen to the pleasant voices of the day dost thou understand the token nature should not teach in vain what its gracious lord hath spoken that the dead shall live again the bird s nest two came in early spring when winter s reign was o er and every i heard them sing just by our cottage door they built their nest of moss and hay within a tree and thither every pleasant day i went to hear and see at first er i came they flew or eyed me in alarm but soon my step familiar grew i never did them harm one day a louder song i heard with eager cries for food and then i helped the mother bird to still her hungry brood i always seemed a welcome guest both old and young i fed scenes then settling down beneath the nest some pleasant book i read i watched them fondly day by day until their wings were vn when suddenly they flew away and left me all alone the bitter tears began to start and full of sad regret i wondered in my simple heart if birds could thus forget ah many have returned and many changes since i the mournful lesson learned in early childhood taught and many hopes have taken wings on which my heart was set and i have found that as well as birds forget gather gather white and blue where the southern play bring them sparkling with the dew with the blessed dew of may let me fold them to my breast sweet of earthly bliss ha they love to be for they give me kiss for kiss wild flowers how my weary heart doth touched as by a hand divine while their soft eyes they turn full of sympathy to mine do they know how much i sigh for the meadows where they grew for the forest and the sky where they caught their hue there is one who knows it all to his loving arms i flee oh he hears my call and i know he me he ere long will take my hand saying tenderly arise he will lead me to the land where no blossom ever dies to a blessings on thy sunny face in my heart thou hast a place humble forms more lovely are around thee purple surround thee but i know thy honest heart never felt a moment s smart at another s good or beauty ever at thy post of duty smiling on the great and small and poor and wishing au health and happiness and pleasure oh thou art a golden treasure scenes i remember years ago how i longed to see thee blow humble through the meadows i would o er the pastures yonder and lap till the teacher s rap rap rap sounding on the window dreadful as a thunder crash called me from my world ideal to a world how sad and real from a laughing sky and brook to a dull old book then with treasures hid securely to my seat i crept childhood s careless days are o er happy school days come no more humble through a desert i am walking hope pleasure mocking every earthly fountain dry yet when thou meet mine eye something like a beam of gladness did my sadness and i hail thee as a friend come a holiday to spend by the couch of pain and anguish where i suffer moan and when at length i sink to rest and the turf is on my breast humble wilt thou when the morning and the spring bud and blossom at a breath wild flowers from the icy arms of death wilt thou smile my tomb drawing beauty om the gloom making life less dark and weary making death itself less dreary whispering in a gentle tone to the sad and lone of a spring time when the will arise to bless the my father made this beautiful world and gave me a heart to love his works oh may i love him better than all created things the little of ground house is a field of instruction and amusement to me how little do i comprehend of all contained within it i am glad i was not born in some great city where nature had not been so kind and dear a friend to a robin robin breast on the tree do you sing that song for me you are listening it is true but i do not sing for you higher yet on rise don t you see a pair of eyes peeping through the pleasant shade rural scenes the summer leaves have made there they watch me all day long brightening at my cheerful song turning er i go for the evening meal below dearest mate that ever happy lover peaceful nest guarding well our eggs of blue all my songs i sing for you god is there when the howling winds are high and the vivid fly through the air when the roll peace to thee troubled soul god is there when the dreary storm is past and the promised bow at last bright and fair in the cloudy sky smiling still through nature s tears god is there when the tender bright with and with gold in the air or at twilight when they close wrapped awhile in sweet repose god is there where the robin her lay sweetly at the dawn of day wild flowers or with care her soft and nest her little brood to rest god is there when the countless stars appear ever to the listening ear they declare he who sees the fall made us	28
and us all god is there when the youthful knee is bent and to heaven is humbly sent grateful prayer bending from his throne above full of tenderness and love god is there though his arm the tis the sweetest sound he hears child like prayer seek then oft the peaceful shade there our blessed prayed god is there the farmer how beautiful thou art my native stream art thou not worthy of a poet s theme the po and live in ancient lays and smaller streams have had their of praise art thou less lovely true in classic lore thou art unknown and on thy quiet shore there are no monuments of other times scenes no records of the past its woes or crimes the roar of cannon and the of arms have never shook thy bosom with and never has thy calm and peaceful flood been stained to crimson with a brother s blood the s rifle only hast thou heard the rabbit and the timid bird or may be in the savage days of the wolf and bear have upon thy shore but rural peace and beauty reign to night the harvest moon with holy light each wave that in its onward flow o er rock concealed amid the depths below and gives a strange wild beauty to the scene on either shore where trees of and their dusky shadows fling around whose trunks the heavy cling with clad in crimson gold and brown bright like the west when first the sun goes down here from this summit where i often i can behold my cot my humble home there i was born and when this life is o er i hope to sleep upon the river s shore there is the orchard which i helped to rear it well my labor year by year one apple tree towers high above the rest where every spring a has its nest sweet lily used to nd beneath the bough and smiling listen but she comes not now a fairer bird ne er charmed the rising day than she we loved thus early called away but she is gone to sing her holy strains in gardens and on plains there are the fields that i myself have cleared of trees and brush and a waste appeared wild flowers the corn just ready for the stands and golden dot my fertile lands are the pastures where my cattle feed my gentle supply the milk we need sweet cream and cheese are daily on our board and clothing warm my snowy sheep afford there the flowers my loves to tend how often do i see her smiling bend to pluck the weeds or teach the graceful vine around the string or slender pole to how often when the toils of day are done and i return just at the set of sun she comes to meet me down the lane sweet partner of my pleasures and my pain with snow amid her sunny hair to win my favor all her joy and care how often does she wander forth with me and share my seat beneath the tree and smile and blush to hear my ardent lays her virtues and pour forth her praise hark tis her voice sweet as the s song she comes to tell me i have long i hear her now an old love hum and now she calls i come dear love i come the return grateful to our sleepless eyes lo the beams of arise and the mountain tops are gray with the light of coming day and the birds are on the wing with the happy birds we ll sing rural scenes bidding doubt and gloom be gone like tlie shadows at the dawn yes for eyes as bright as day the shady way gentle voices with delight whisper they will come to night hearts as fond and true as ours wait for us in lovely nor shall wait for us in vain faithful ones we come again where the bending weep and the slowly creep we our neglected hung soon again they will be strung and mountain stream will take up the theme when no longer doomed to we can chant the praise of home lo in yonder sky the sun half his daily task has done we will rest beside the spring while the bird with folded wing sits within his cool retreat shaded from the heat and the bees with drowsy hum homeward honey laden come too our way we hold laden not with paltry gold but with treasures better far than the richest jewels are simple trusting hearts content with the blessings heaven has lent wild flowers once within our love lit cot rich and great we envy not lo the shadows fast now the well known hills are past now the forest dark and tall oh how we remember all now the pastures strewn with rocks where we used to watch our flocks farther down the winding road see it is our own abode where the fall on the lowly cottage wall fancy can already trace each d familiar face one by one each form appears till our eyes are dim with tears if the be so sweet soon our joy be complete here we are but all is still save the ever murmuring save the of the owl and the village watch dog s howl slowly the cottage door shall we cross the threshold o er empty and deserted all echo answers to our call where the bending tree oft has sheltered thee and me lo the turf has been we have come but come to mourn eyes are dim and lips are cold and our arms we sadly fold over hearts till hushed and dead never to be comforted no our hearts shall still be for the journey is	28
not long in a holy land we shall meet our household band in the fairer above they await the friends they love oh what joy with them to dwell never more to say the old sugar camp whoever has attended a off in the woods will enjoy the reading of this poem the description is so life like and it is a home scene come let us away to the old sugar camp the sky is serene though the ground may be damp and the little bright streams as they and run turn a look full of thanks to the ice melting sun while the warm southern winds wherever they go leave patches of brown mid the glittering snow the oxen are ready and and tray are watching us ready to be on the way while a group of gay children with and spoon and faces as bright as the roses of june o er fences and spring light hearted and careless as birds on the wing where s oh here he comes his gun look out for the hush there is one poor victim a bang and a flutter tis o er wild flowers and those fair wings shall it was shot for onr invalid sister at home yet we sigh as beneath the tall branches we our cheeks all with the long morning tramp we soon come in sight of the old sugar camp the already is placed in the pan and we gather around it as many as can we try it on snow when we find it is done we fill up a for a dear absent one oh and best of all parties are these that meet in the camp the old trees the love and the friendship of years they are scenes to be thought of with smiles and with tears when age shall have each beautiful cheek and left in dark a silvery streak here brothers and sisters and lovers have met and cousins and friends we can never forget the the ocean divide us from some yet oft as the seasons for come the cup of bright to friendship we ll drain and gather them home to our bosom again dear that a so rare so useful in spring and in summer so fair of autumn acknowledged the glory and queen attendant on every scene in our homes it is meet thou be of our country the emblem beautiful tree scenes to a rabbit go to the green wood go i oft shall sigh for thee and yet rejoice to know that thou art sporting free go to the meadows green where summer holds her reign when winter spoils the scene wilt thou return again a shelter thou find from every howling storm the heart thou st behind would still be true and warm why dost thou struggle thus does every breeze that softly us tell of the waving trees do yonder happy birds that sing for thee and me for chorus have the words so precious i am free go then as free as they as light and happy with thy companions gay safe in thy forest home there thou art gone farewell my heart leaps up with thine and i rejoice to tell thou art no mine wild flowers i could not breathe the air where dwell my freedom thou wilt share with joy then fare thee well the old the old man s cheek was wet with tears and his wrinkled brow was pale as after a lapse of many years he stood in ms native the sang in the leafy bough and the earth was in green but the old man s heart beat sadly now while he gazed on the lovely scene the stream ran clear to the distant sea the same as he saw it last and sitting beneath an old elm tree he thought of days in the past he thought how he climbed the or through the forest wild or traced to its source the rippling a gay and careless child and as he thought of the happy throng that around him used to crowd with the ringing laugh and the joyous song the old man wept aloud for well he knew they would meet no more on the dreary shores of time but he looked away to a brighter shore he looked to a scenes that moment a young and merry group came bounding across the with rosy cheek with ball and with they came to the old elm tree they paused awhile in their noisy play to gaze on the aged man while he wiped his falling tears away and in trembling tones began i would not cloud for the world your joy or have you less happy for me for i have been like yourselves a boy though i m now the wreck you see but let the words of wisdom and truth in your memories be and in the days of your sunny youth be hind to the poor and old the children wept as they heard him speak and forgetful of their play they wiped the tears from his cheek aiid they smoothed his locks of gray he laid his hand with a tender air by turns on each youthful head then lifting his faded eyes in prayer god bless you the old man said and the boys for the angels flung around them their of gold so ever they do when the gay and young are kind to the poor and old wild flowers the fading and the once more the beautiful spring returned and from my window i can behold the delightful places where i have so often in childhood and happy but the lovely spring brings no longer the same emotions as of oh no for a change has come over the spirit of my dream earth has lost its charms	28
and although i love the beauties of nature even better than before still they cannot satisfy they are doomed to fade and my soul for those beautiful heavenly which shall never where god himself in person and night away but although i sigh for such things am i prepared for them should i be ready at this moment to enter the paradise of god ah my heart why thou hesitate thus to return an answer god is still able and willing to save and though i have wandered so far from him if with an humble and penitent soul i confess my sins he is willing and able to forgive me june on receipt of some wild flowers i with tears those spring time flowers for they brought to my mind the happy hours when i through the forests and meadows green with a heart all alive to each beautiful scene i loved the flowers when my step was light and my cheek with the glow of health was bright g forest and meadows o er plain and o er hill i may wander no more but i love them still i love the flowers and i love them best when they first peep out from earth s snow breast for they tell amid sorrow and death and gloom of a spring that shall visit the depths of the tomb and oh could i through fortune s i would a wreath of the sweetest flowers whose beauty and fragrance should ne er depart but thy home and thy heart but the flowers of earth are fragile and fair and the young brow must fade and be with care but hast thou not heard of a wonderful that ne er has been by the f s of time there in gardens of bliss the weary repose there the pale sickly cheek wears the hue of the rose there death never comes oh amid its bright may we for each other a of flowers the sick girl s dream i heard the other night in dreams the early robin sing the southern winds unlocked the streams and warmed the heart of spring the trees wore their dress the their wild flowers and to the s fond caress gave forth their rare through months of wintry frost and storm yet never by them a million had warm close to the parent stem the happy spring time broke their rest they drank the morning dew they clasped the to their breast aid clothed the trees anew the clouds the fertile rain and sent it forth in showers the sunlight danced along the plain and painted it with flowers the butterfly went forth to play the useful honey bee kept up a hum through all the day of cheerful industry the in the grove the rabbit bounded by the wary spider spun and and the careless fly from out the joyous wood the song of came the in a merry mood told and re told its name and when behind the purple hill the sun went out of sight the began with hearty will their concert for the night scenes g such scenes liad made in years i heart with transport leap but now they the spring of tears i sobbed aloud in and is there not some i cried mid nature s boundless wealth behold a gentle voice replied behold the of health just then a torrent met my e e fresh from the rock it burst i could have drained the fountain dry so raging was my thirst such deep emotions filled my soul i woke the vision fled the through the curtain stole ah twas a dream i said but w ell i know there is a land where flows the living stream and when upon its banks i stand oh then be no dream the last song earth is fair oh so fair sang a little hai bird though a prey to grief and care with a smile i heard sing again that strain precious little bird i said for the heart that with pain thou hast comforted wild flowers earth is fair so fair louder the happy bird what have i to do with care or with hope deferred all the western sky was red with the beams of setting sun as the homeward sped with the fatal gun earth is fair oh so fair and i love the green earth well death was in the air and the fell earth is fair but earth no more wears its pleasant green for thee cold and stiff and bathed in underneath the tree earth is fair but alas it hath many scenes of woe happy they who through them pass sweetly singing as they go comforting some lonely heart making some weak spirit strong so may i and then depart on my lips a song an evening scene how still and calm what fairer scene e er met the eye of mortal short of paradise the quiet lake is like a mirror set in richest green where sunset loves to see itself arrayed in crimson pink and gold and e en the proud old mountain bows his head rural scenes shaggy witli and appears well pleased to view so grand a form reflected there hark o er the polished surface how the call to each other waking echoes wild from and cliff and waking in my heart sweet memories of other days and years when health was on my cheek and hope and love o er all the future one bright all little do you then a rainy morrow by yon crimson west i doubt your so in truth it seems does yonder farmer with shouldered meadows fragrant with the new hay goes whistling homeward glad to seek repose until another sun shall call him forth to gather into the winter s store of	28
food provided for the gentle that faintly from the pastures come scented with giving promise fair of o with a sweeter drink than ever gleamed in the s bowl now o er the landscape signs of twilight creep and sounds that tell of night sounds that i love the of the owl the tree s cry by distance and more distant still i hear the barking of the village dogs the breath of evening whispering mid the pines and deepening shadows bid mo homeward turn and yet i linger for i seem a part of lake and mountain meadow tree and sky and realize how sweet a thing it is to lay my heart so close to nature s own that i can feel its throbbing while each pulse beats and o er my being a calm like that our parents felt wild flowers when to the of they repaired and praised their maker seen in all his works author of nature source of life and light almighty father let me praise thee too this lovely world is thine yon moon and stars that now begin to in the night ai e but the of that march in order round thy dazzling throne and chant thy praises in perpetual song all these are thine for thou hast made them all and i am thine i thank thee lord of lords king of the universe creator god that while in part i realize thy i know it has an equal in the love which bowed the heavens and consecrated earth when the came to save mankind and in its proper a fallen world shall one day become the fairest mid the of the most renowned because the dearest bought the best beloved because the given was all that god could pay autumn the howling winds rage around my the summer is past and everything that winter will soon be here the leaves are falling from their homes in the waving forests the earth has thrown aside her gay mantle of green and one scene of desolation presents itself to the eye the decay of nature brings with it sad and solemn reflections how scenes much more the decay of the human form of which autumn seems so striking an emblem the days of man are few like the of the field he and yet how few seem to realize it god teach me to apply my heart unto wisdom help me to love and serve thee that when the heavens shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt fervent heat i may not be among those who shall take up the sad the harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved the as miss lived in the house with dr g o would frequently in winter cross lake on the ice in visiting his the following written on a sick bed gives a description of what her fears pictured might be a reality night comes but he comes not i fear the treacherous ice what do i hear bells nay i am deceived again tis but the ringing in my brain oh how the wind goes shrieking past was it a voice the blast a cry for aid my god protect preserve his life his course direct how suddenly it has grown dark how very dark without hush hark tis but the creaking of the door it opens and nothing more then and came in i thought some food and shelter sought wild flowers but more i feared for fear is weak that some one came of him to speak to tell how he the storm how long he kept his bosom warm with thoughts of home how long he cheered his weary horse that plunged and reared and through the drifted snow till daylight faded and the glow of hope went out how almost blind he peered around below behind no road no track the very shore all blotted out one struggle more it is thy last perchance brave heart god a the masses part of snow and ice and dark and deep the waters lie in death like sleep he sees too late the chasm horse and driver all are gone father in heaven it may be thus but thou art gracious pity us save him and me in mercy spare what be worse than death to bear hark hark am i deceived again nay tis no ringing in my brain my leap my bosom thank god it is it is his bells patriotic i the surrender of is the oldest city in canada been founded by in near the site of an indian village it was taken from the french by the english under general in after a heroic defence by both fell on the battle field wounded in the literary and historical society of offered a prize for the best poem relating to the history of canada miss then in her year wrote the following which took the prize the of day upon liis pathway pressed beaming with splendor toward the shining west cast one long lingering glance upon the scene lit up the river and the forest green left his last rays upon the dome and to smile upon the peasant s home then the western hills he sought repose and sank to rest as calmly as he rose bright at the dawn of day but brighter when day had almost passed and round her brow hung the beams of dazzling light the certain of approaching night slowly his gorgeous train like him changing as they advanced in form and hue until one lovely tint of fairest stole softly o er the calm and sky day gently smiling left her gleaming throne and evening fair came forth and reigned the twinkling stars the vault adorned wild flowers like glistening gems a glorious crown they formed	28
and proudly sat in splendor pure and bright upon the pale and pensive brow of night while in the midst of all with lent enchantment to the scene beneath lay spreading pastures green and fair and lofty hills and waving forests where the human voice had never yet been heard or other sound save when the depths were stirred by the loud screams of some lone midnight bird but high o er all the lofty city rose firm in its strength sublime in its repose on every hand by nature fortified and strongly built with air of conscious pride gazed from its heights upon the scene below and bade defiance to each lurking foe confiding in its firm and sure it calmly slept and deemed itself secure the river swept along with roar its waves dashed on the rocky shore while on its broad bosom lay the twinkling in beautiful array and every drop shone clear and bright bathed in a flood of soft and silvery light scarcely a ripple stirred its quiet breast for every sighing breeze was to rest and every sound was hushed on earth in air and silence held supreme dominion there sleep sent his angels forth with silent tread from house to house they on their mission sped watched by the couch of suffering and pain soothed the pale brow and the throbbing brain the sad heart and closed the weeping eye patriotic poems bade care and grief attendants fly entered the chamber of the rich and great nor scorned to visit those of mean estate ent blessed alike the lofty and the low alike bade each forget their weight of woe the proud and wealthy drew around their breast the curtains of repose and sank to rest the pallid sons of want and hunger slept and sorrow s sons forgot that they had wept the night wore slowly on the dismal tower had long since the lonely midnight hour a proud band by daring impulse led approached the river with a cautious tread with eye and with an eager air the boats that waited for them there in silence left the calm and peaceful shore in sullen silence plied the hasty oar in silence passed the quiet stream while ever and anon a j ale sad and cast a hasty glance on polished dagger and on gleaming lance the scene was mournful and with magic art it acted strangely on each manly heart no speedy action now no rude alarm called forth their powers or the arm no present danger used its strong control to rouse the passions of the warrior s soul but all to place thought on her throne and yield the reins of power to her alone the past came slowly forth with all its train of scenes that ne er might be again of mournful and sighs of pallid faces and of tearful eyes wild flowers of aching hearts that heaved with sorrow s swell and broken tones that sadly breathed farewell and in the silence of that lonely hour which bade the own its wondrous power a small still voice whispered in every soul although each sought to burst from its control to morrow the moon as fair as now may shed her beams upon your death sealed brow to morrow night the stars may the wave while you perchance may fill a soldier s grave to morrow night your spirit may explore the boundless regions of an shore to morrow night may you with the slain and weeping love watch your return in vain and yet not long such gloomy thoughts might rest within the soldier s brave and gallant breast not long the warrior panting for the held and for the battle s horrid din might yield his fearless spirit unto sorrow s sway or dread the issue of the coming day the momentary sadness now was o er as with new hopes they the frowning shore landed in silence and in stern array pressed firmly forward on their dangerous way mounted the rugged rocks with footsteps slow and left the murmuring river far below from cliff to cliff the gallant army spring nor envy now the eagle s soaring wing they view their labors o er their object gain and proudly stand on the lovely plain gaze down upon the awful scenes they ve passed that they ve reached the heights at last hope lights each eye and fills each manly breast where wild desires and aspirations rest poems it bids each doubt and every shadow flee and points them on to certain victory the morning dawned the beams of light on a strange and a romantic sight on glistening and on nodding crest on waving banner and on steel clad breast the city woke but woke to hear the cry to arms to arms the foe the foe is nigh she woke to hear the trumpet s wild she woke to hear the sound of arms she woke to view her confidence removed she woke to view her trusted safety proved her mighty long her pride and boast all safely mounted by a british host she woke to view her lofty yield her plains converted to a battle field her gallant troops in wild disorder fly the british banner floating to the sky and proudly waving o er the bloody plain o er heaps of dying and o er heaps of slain from their hasty dreams with brows aghast on every hand the soldiers gather fast bind on their seize the glittering sword form in a line and at a simple word with hurried steps advance toward the shore with hasty gestures grasp the trembling oar across the river s bosom swiftly glide and safely land upon the other side drawn up in battle order now they stand waiting in silence for their chief s command then onward move with firm and stately tread with waving and proudly	28
spread with gleaming sword and with uplifted lance where now the glistening dance wild flowers but long before those decline streams of dark blood shall all their shine those beams shall strive to tlie steel in vain for human the polished steel shall stain the sun rose clear that with ardent glow he shed his beams o er friend and foe his golden hues the spreading fields adorn waving in beauty the corn give richer colors to the lofty trees that gently rustle in the morning breeze they the river s surface calm and blue and shine reflected in the sparkling dew oh ye who stand prepared for deadly strife for blood and for a brother s life behold the glories that around you lie the harmony earth and sky behold the wondrous skill and power displayed in every leaf and every lowly blade on every hand behold the wondrous love of him who in majesty above who bids for man all nature sweetly smile and sends his rain upon the just and vile his attribute is love and shall ye dare to take the life mercy and love would spare shall ye destroy what he has formed to live and take away what ye can never give shall mortal claim the right his own belonging to alone rash man forbear and stay the ready dart that seeks to lodge within thy brother s heart but no for mercy s voice now hushed and still no longer may the steel clad bosom thrill and hearts that melted once at other s woe that kindled once with friendship s fervent glow poems that once had felt and owned the soothing power of tender love are in the hour when savage war makes bare his awful arm and in thunder tones his dread alarm but there were some m those devoted bands o er whom the scenes of other lands came w wildly and piercing gaze they looked an instant on their boyhood s days remembered well the hours that flew too fast some with whom those hours were past j and mid the group of dear companions gay well some whom they saw that day but sprang not forward with familiar grasp and friendly air the proffered hand to clasp but looked away and with a pang of pain that they e er had met again for now they met not as they met before not as they used to meet in days of not arm in arm like brothers fondly tried whom they could trust and in whose love confide met not as once high and mutual aim in classic halls to seek for future fame but met as bitter foes in deadly strife each wildly panting for the other s life with armies proud and swelling like the flood to wreath their in each other s blood they once were friends but france and england rose in sounding arms and they are hostile foes they once were friends but friendship may not shield the warrior s breast upon the battle held they once were friends but hark the cannon s roar loudly that they are friends no more from rank to rank the flies wild flowers rank to rank tlie groans of rise after rank is numbered witli the slain e follows rank and upon the plain bravely they fought with zeal in human they dipped the shining steel pressed o er the heaps of dying and of dead where warriors groaned and gallant heroes from their lips in quick and stifled breath arose the cry of victory or death louder and louder still the awful roar from the heights and shook the frightened shore thick clouds of smoke enveloped friend and foe the thunder shook the depths below mountain and echoing forest joined the cry and distant hills gave back the same reply with voice and waving hand the british leader cheered his gallant band pressed firmly forward where one endless tide of woe and reigned on every side where streams of blood in crimson torrents rolled where death smote down alike the young and old and where the poured the deadly shot the gallant with daring fought the dead and dying in his pathway lie before him ranks divide and fly with arm and with aim he adds new glories to his former fame the reward of all his toil for now fresh around his youthful brow but what avail they for the fatal dart of death has lodged within that hoping heart the lofty head that wore the waving crest poems now sadly upon the bleeding breast that mighty arm in power and pride falls feebly down and casts its aside the laurel wreath that brow in vain for lo the hero lies among the slain the french fought long with courage and with skill with iron arms and with an iron will bravely forward mid the battle s din to die or else the victory win like soldiers true fought firmly and fought well and at their post like faithful soldiers fell deeper and deeper now the conflict grows despair nerves these and victory those tis the last struggle hark they fly they fly the depths and the sky tis the last struggle for the beating drum the conflict o er the victory the french in dismay and horror yield and leave the british masters of the field far in the rear a dying warrior lay while from his breast the life blood away attendants bent around to the tide that flowed in torrents from his wounded side with came each panting breath and those proud features wore the hue of death his lips were sealed his beaming eyes dim and strangely quivered every outstretched limb unconscious he seemed of love or hate unconscious now his spirit seemed to the summons that should bid it fly to unseen by human eye he seemed like one already the dead	28
wild when lo he started raised his drooping head with dying hand he grasped his blade with eye the battle surveyed heard the triumphant shout they run they run knew that the field was gained the victory won who run he cried with wildly throbbing heart with breast and livid lips apart the french the french no more that warrior heard it enough for him that single word i die contented and his youthful head fell feebly back the noble soul had fled oh gallant from o er the dark blue sea there comes a wail a bitter wail for thee thy country her warrior true and brave and yearning love o er thy lowly grave but nothing now may break thy tranquil rest nothing disturb thy calm and quiet breast nor arms nor cannon s roar nor sorrow s wail may ever rouse thee more but when a voice far louder than them all shall bid thee rise thou must obey the call and stand of earthly pride and power before thy judge god shield thee in that hour k from the scene with drooping head and arm another warrior death s seal upon that pallid brow was pressed his icy hand lay on that heaving breast but thoughts of victory lent no soothing to cheer the spirit of the proud he lived to see his followers die he lived to see his troops fly nor longer cared to live but welcomed death and with a smile resigned his fleeting breath patriotic poems his proud s without a sigh or groan and death had claimed the hero for his own the strife was o er the dreadful combat past the echoing hills had found repose at last had done its work on every side and even greedy death was satisfied the sun went down how changed from night how changed his aspect and how changed the sight on which he gazed then his last golden beam on a landscape fair a quiet scene where now destruction reared its standard dread o er shattered bodies and o er severed head heap upon heap the pallid victims lay of pain and thirst the prey in anguish rolled upon the bloody ground and still they tore each gaping wound in concert joined cries their teeth and rolled their blood shot eyes with feeble groans they drew each painful breath and with called aloud for death far o er the field in wild confusion rose piles of the ghastly dead of friends and foes in death stretched side by side and cold while over all the war clouds rolled in dark dense columns mounted up on high the air all the sky was won and o er each lofty tower the british banner streamed in pride and power where the french eagle once her wings had spread the british lion reared his haughty head and shook the conquered country with his roar the eagle flew in terror from the shore wild with drooping the western main and trembling sought her native france again while england proud and potent took the sway and waved her over canada song of the english peasant girl the marriage in of prince william of to victoria mary eldest daughter of the queen of england and the visit of edward prince of wales to canada in were events of sufficient magnitude to arouse the patriotism of our and we find reference made to them in this and the two following pieces i am but a rustic maiden dwelling by the river side but i m happy as the princess who today becomes a bride i am but a peasant s daughter all his life in toil is spent but he loves me as prince loves his child and content though the queen of many nations centre of each royal scene better than i love my mother does the princess love the queen are prince and arthur though within a palace bred dearer than my little brothers playing the cottage shed there s a group of sisters round the english throne patriotic poems but i know they are not truer better sisters than mine own hark it is the trumpet sounding at the prince of s side now her oh i not be the bride a manly voice hath whispered dearer than my life thou art what care i who rules a kingdom if i rule in s heart i am but a peasant s daughter and the wealthy pass me by but there s not in merry england a happier maid than i a nation s desire god hear our fervent prayer god bless the royal pair god save the queen guide them in all their ways and may their wedded days be ordered to praise god save the queen the waves will soon divide thee and thy home bride god save the queen but over land and sea warm hearts will follow thee rose of england s tree god save the queen wild flowers canada s welcome a nation s hearty welcome take heir to a mighty throne thrice welcome for old england s sake thy mother s and thine own crowded street from green from fair the i goes up god bless the queen i god bless the prince of wales t he rich and poor the great and small their voices join as one victoria s name is dear to all so is victoria s son their tribute other queens have laid the land and sea but never earthly monarch swayed so many hearts as she and for her young and gallant heir a kindred love god hear a nation s fervent prayer god bless the prince of wales our native land this was in the early part of the year before s had given to the and when the north star was an object dear to many a slave who longed to breathe the free air	28
we may say of her as she does of the bride of christ the cross was dearer to her than ten thousand worlds it was around her heart with ties that nothing could over loose she wept but they were mingled tears of joy and sorrow sorrow for she mourned that her sins had cost the life of the son of god joy for she knew that that sacrifice had made a i for hei she knew that the father had forgiven her and that he would no longer remember her sins as she clung to the cross a bright beam of glory shone around her she raised her tearful eyes and a crown of everlasting beauty met her admiring wild flowers gaze she knew that crown was reserved for her and that on her day her lord would place it on her own brow with such an experience and such a hope we are not surprised that she should thus discourse the earth renewed presents a glorious scene mountains and valleys of perpetual green delicious plains and forests never dying flowers that on fragrant trees immortal grow that murmur sweetly as they flow and gardens with everlasting spring and shining on the wing no howling tempest breaks the sweet repose no piercing thorn the blushing rose no heat those blooming plains no night is known where day forever no thunder s roar no lightning s vivid glare no darkened sky the beauty there the royal city the divine abode of men and their eternal god rises mid blooming and lofty trees and waves its to the gentle breeze upon its gates and shining walls a flood of everlasting glory falls and with its own delightful glow the lovely river murmuring that river from the living fountain springs and guided by the mighty king of kings it through the saints celestial home where in white the nations through golden streets and gardens fair and free and on its banks stands life s tree all all is bliss and love and glory there no pain no sickness no care no grief no aching hearts no eyes poems no broken bands and there no severed ties for o er those broad and beautiful the prince of peace the great the good have met of every age and land around the throne a glorious throng they stand the crown of life the blood washed robes they wear the conqueror s palms of victory they bear they bend the knee they raise the joyful eye and hark hark that vast assembly cry worthy the lamb to be exalted thus worthy the lamb for he was slain for us and angels with the millions sing glory and honor to our god and king i cm a welcome to a old and young are welcome here to the banquet we have spread it will cause no bitter tear when the hour is fled it will break no mother s heart for the deadly bowl we welcome then and when we part blessings go with every one i the following lines were also written by miss a held in a grove near her s house they were read by her brother now a lawyer in p q from north and south from east and west they come with gay hope lights each eye and fills each breast and all are friends to day the fairest of the sister band with greeting most sincere extends an eager hand and bids you welcome here hail brothers in a noble cause tis well we thus should meet for every meeting closer draws the bonds of union sweet temper ax ce and we who battle for the right and breathe the solemn vow to win or perish in the fight should be united now up brothers up to arms to arms the sword must needs be drawn these are indeed no vain the foe is marching on and shall he our happy land with his breath and scatter woe on every hand and and death by yonder mountain and by lake which their approval show for each beloved s sake we boldly answer no then let our be mid scorn or mid applause we dare proclaim to all the world we love the a life scene the letter i m at work upon the railroad so the brother s letter ran i m at work upon the railroad with the wages of a man i am up at peep of morning and i only stop to eat but i bear it all extremely well except the noon day heat wild flowers i do not feel though i think of other scenes and what you have for dinner when i eat my pork and beans tis the time for and and all that for an hour in mother s i d give my new hat you wrote about the chickens about the crops and hay but not a word about the the black one or the gray tell father not to worry about that note at all i shall have a hundred dollars i can send him in the fall you cannot think how proudly it makes my bosom swell to think that i am toiling for those i love so well tell mother i remember her parting words to me and all that she has prayed for i hope i yet may be the workmen bring the bottle they say just take a but mother a single drop shall ever touch my lip here s a kiss for brother the little i hope he ll not forget me and another for yourself how much i want to see you i will not try to tell i never knew i loved my home and all my friends so well my lamp is burning dimly so sister dear good night think often of your brother and don t forget to write the sister read	28
anguish but they might have seen how fierce a storm was gathering might have stayed and while the hope was fresh within her heart she hurried in but only to return and take her station at the door again the moments slowly lengthened into hours the air grew chilly for upon the hearth a few embers smoked alone and pale with midnight and with gi the knelt to find relief in prayer then hark a sound a footstep and she starts her heart leaps to her throat and with a bound she gains the cottage door it opens wide a cry of joy is trembling on her lips for there the husband and the father stood she stretched her eager arms to take the boy but in the movement caught the father s eye where horror sat and told the dreadful tale he dared not trust his quivering lips to speak is dead she cried my boy my boy wild flowers and caught liim wildly to her bursting heart cold on her bosom fell the little head which had been there so oft in sleep and as she raised the frosty lid which veiled the violet eye beneath that lately laughed so a groan escaped her pallid lips the guilty husband shuddered as he heard too late he muttered in a tone and like an image of despair he stood until she called him weeping to her side and murmured in a voice half choked with sobs nay not too late my husband not too late god takes the child in mercy and in love to save the father shall it not be so say by the love we bore this precious child our own no longer shall it not be so the answer came so low she scarcely heard but twas enough and she looked up and smiled i on what is your life why do we mourn why do we sigh we who may to lie with folded hands and death sealed eye a brave and gallant heart i knew like some young sturdy oak he grew nursed by the sun refreshed by dew his hopes were bright and high their aim above reproach or fear of shame none ever lightly spoke his name he left our cottage and gay and as he left we heard him say i will return at close of day we watched him as he passed along he was so manly brave and strong oh was the pride we cherished wrong we thought of him as one designed to bless and mankind and it was well that we were blind we did not see the gathering frown but long before the sun went down a dreadful filled the town they told us gently he was dead i would not credit what they said but when i it reason fled wild i woke to real life once more my dream of happiness was o er i stood upon a desert shore all da heard the moan all night i answered groan with groan for i was desolate and lone there came no message o er the sea no message from the lost to me and i at god s decree the bolt was spared and o er my head the bow of mercy shone instead and i at last was comforted now when the rage and roar i think it shortly will be o er tis calm upon the other shore i look at time as one who sees a pale leaf floating on the breeze amid a grove of noble trees it fills awhile a little nook to day it is to morrow the great white throne tlie open book we stand upon a narrow space eternity rolls on where next shall be our resting place life as when the graceful bark with spreading sails from the port into the open sea along by soft and prosperous sighs on just as the rising sun bids darkness flee so like that bark in early youth are we when first we upon the sea of life our hopes as bright our youthful souls as free the scene around with love and beauty and all unknown to us its its cares and strife the bark on but see the sky dark and angry clouds is soon o the roar the fly the beat and the midnight blast the trembling vessel with mast the waves have in their fury tossed until she lies a helpless wreck at last her plans all and her hopes all crossed her guiding star obscured and her direction lost tis thus with life at times deemed most secure when all seems calm and beautiful and fair dark rocks concealed the easier to the fragile bark in youth s bright and storms arise and fierce the glare and wild and high the raging roll while sinks the heart a wreck in deep despair till brightly o er the dark and dreary pole the morning star appears to the soul it guides the bark across life s troubled sea it points the way unto the destined shore till in a eternity it with the howling storm no more be ours that star to guide us safely o er to us oh may may its precious light be given and though the beat and roar and though we now by adverse winds are driven we ll safely anchor soon in the port of heaven wild flowers the silent army life is the road to death no one can lose the way tis sure and plain whatever paths we take all end the same some walk in sunshine and some beneath a cloud some gather flowers and some the thorn but at the gate all stand alike nor poverty nor wealth can enter there to those who smile and those who weep to those who sing	28
and those who sigh there comes the same long final sleep there comes the time when each must die we watch the faces as they pass we say of some how very fair nor think how soon the churchyard grass will upon the beauty there the objects of our love we take close to our hearts and call them ours they are the gods we ne er but crown them every with flowers we dip them o er and o er again in love s immortal but when we find that all has been in vain god shield in anguish then the death drum beats the roll is called new names are on the list to day some answer calm and as if pleasure to obey for life to them was full of pain death opened wide the only door sighs ox while others weep and plead in vain for just one little moment more through all the springs that come and go at noon at night at early dawn through summer s heat and winter s snow that silent army on on on forever to the tomb they pitch no tents along the way on on it is the common doom there s no return and no delay they take no purse nor with them however rich they were before the brow of beauty wears no and slaves are men and kings no more from every land and sea and through all the ages that are gone through all the years of future time that host has marched will still march on and shall we of to morrow boast this very night may seal our doom and find us with that shadowy host whose line of march is for the tomb death and the tomb our hearts rebel and why such things should be great god who all things well we leave these mysteries with thee thou why and we shall know when raised in triumph from the grave from death and sin and woe through him who hath the power to save wild flowers the dying warrior a warrior lay with a heaving breast on the field of the dying and dead his cheek was pale and his lips compressed and the fading light from the distant west shone o er his bed the night came on and the moon arose with her soft and tremulous glow she shed her light o er friends and o er foes all ing together in dull repose on the battle field below the warrior gazed with a mournful sigh on the blue and the star dome while tears shone bright in his sunken eye and vivid thoughts like the lightning fly to his childhood s distant home he thought of the mother who used to bead o er his couch when in sorrow and pain who to his complaints an ear would lend but alas he knew that that dearest friend would never bend o er him again he thought of the scenes where once he strayed with his brothers in days of he thought of the stream the peaceful the cottage that stood in the dark green shade with the vines around the door he thought with a pang of dark despair twas the hour they all used to meet with grateful heart for the evening prayer he thought of the group that were gathered there he thought of a vacant seat sighs ox he knew that a fervent prayer would rise for the loved and the long absent one he knew that the tears would flow from their eyes and his father s voice be choked with sighs as he prayed for his son he knew for him they would all a renewed and a heart that when the toils of this life were o er they all might embrace each other once more never no never to part one trembling hand to his brow he pressed and the tears of he shed he implored for pardon a home with the then he wrapped his cloak round his breast and the warrior s spirit fled on seeing a skull this morning while examining a skull strange emotions took possession of me such as i never before experienced that senseless skull had once been the seat of deep thought and powerful passions beaming eyes once brightly where now there was only a hollow space that head was once proudly erected and the form that supported it once mingled in the busy scenes of life but now a change his very name is forgotten himself but a handful of dust mortals behold and learn a lesson his body has long since away and mingled with the parent earth this skull alone remains and los wild flowers yet the time will surely come and cannot be far distant the bones shall come together bone to his bone when the and the flesh shall come upon them the skin cover them and the entering the body the dead shall live will this skull come forward at the of the just or oh what an awful thought my very blood runs cold and a shudder over me thou great of mankind for me before thy father s throne that ere it is too late my unworthy name may be written in the lamb s book of life july thoughts on death a bride but yesterday all hope and love flowers at her feet and skies above bright of promise round her brow approach approach and gaze upon her now come not in robes as once ye came the bride is here but she is not the same as when ye saw her to the altar led and called down blessings on her fair young head the cheek is pale that with the rose could there is no lustre in that eye upon those pallid lips there is no breath and she	28
another s feet at and eve should and another s voice perchance more sweet make music in our home that where we locked our hands and talked amid our chosen flowers the lips we pressed should be by other lips than ours that other eyes should watch for him and other arms embrace until our image growing dim yield to another s face and this is love injured dove thy wings have many a stain but pure and white in the land of light they shall be spread again the deep true love our spirits earth never has supplied wild flowers nor till we leave the dreary grave shall we be satisfied dear dear sweet so early gone to rest i love to think of thee as one among the good and no shadow on thy radiant eye no sorrow in thy breast dear sweet i cannot call thee dead tis true i do not see thy face nor hear thy tread yet in my heart of hearts sweet friend thou never be dead when by the solemn stream of death we parted long ago how little of the world we knew but i have lived to know how friendship how love how all things change below time changes some and absence some and envy oh the shame of those who played together once some rise to wealth and fame while in the of poverty the rest remain the same but nothing now can come between thy heart and mine sweet friend sighs on with every image of the past thy memory will and what thou in early life thou wilt bo to the end i love to think oh call it not a fancy wild and vain that thou hast seen and pitied me through all these years of pain but i shall know how that has been when we two meet again my bleeding feet have left their mark wherever they have passed but now the sun is getting low the shadows fast and dear all will be well at last on the death of a friend she sleeps the quiet sleep of death and i survive but for what purpose why was not i called first to explore the regions of eternity tis known only to him whose mighty arm often the humble flower while the waving trees that stand around it are torn from their roots by the roaring tempest she has gone before me and yet how long may it bo ere i shall follow her solemn thought well might it sink deeply into my heart and taking root there spring forth yielding fruits of repentance soon may death the great enemy of mankind add one more ghastly victim to the lifeless piles that lie wild flowers heaped together in every and on every shore and when my death shall sound will it be the signal of a spirit wailing in the regions of the lost or rejoicing in the bright of everlasting bliss it is for me and me alone to decide perhaps it is for this that my life has been spared that i might make a firm and decided choice and shall i still draw back shall i still hesitate and remain no no for now is the accepted time and now is the day of salvation the heavenly what strange i am every day learning thank god for them they are very unpleasant to human nature but they are leading me to place less confidence in earthly love and more in heavenly i have leaned too much upon an arm of flesh and it is right i should suffer for it sweet fold me in thine arms comfort me with thy love and as soon as thou best let me go and live with thee forever all earthly hopes have passed away stay with me my stay thy blessed smile is all the light that breaks upon my dismal night i cling to thee thou must not go oh let me tell thee every woe sighs on i and whisper in thy ready ear what friends would frown to hear distressed in body and in mind and wretched poor and blind i only care to see thy face i only sigh for thy embrace i i faint beneath the rod it is so heavy my god spare me i cry in mercy spare but thou still the prayer sometimes i murmur and prefer my stubborn will to thine and doubt if love or anger deal the dreadful anguish that i feel then suddenly before me stands with bleeding side and feet and hands he lamb that groaned and died for me that i live such love o me and with shame i call upon thy holy name forgive me thou blessed one and let thy will not mine be done o my friend and guide take health take thou wilt beside but let me see the lovely face that makes a heaven of every place nay turn hot from my earnest prayer thy smile can save me from despair the shadows round my way stay with me my stay wild who save thee god the human heart pity me for thy rod is heavy my earthly hopes are all torn and crushed oh may they turn heaven ward and there find support and nourishment this is father s discipline shall i murmur nay but rather rejoice that he does not leave me to myself but with me as a child and preparing me by all these for the rest that for the people of god and sweet the rest will be after such a weary journey ho i shall fold my hands upon the bosom that shall never again be troubled and say in all sincerity i thank thee god for the sweet that was mingled in my earthly cup but more do i	28
for our day of toil and strife its of sorrow what a curse human life locks are cheeks are with each month and year that flies youth and vigor both are failing but the spirit er dies short indeed is our dark and certain is the tomb but the lamp of revelation the fearful gloom oh ave take our life too sadly ever grieve and mourn too much turn to ashes what gladly turn to beneath our touch sighs on tis because that in our blindness we imagine god is blind tis because we doubt his kindness that we cannot be nature cries amid the trials that beset our path god all the of his anger and his wrath such complaints are more surprising since the declaration runs if ye be without then indeed ye are not sons all our future course he better than we see our past and whatever he we shall understand at last let us then in our affliction meekly trust our gracious lord well assured his will ere long be our reward let us the present there is much we all can do that will make the year more pleasant for ourselves and others too a voice from a sick room at one time miss seems to have entertained the idea of for publication a series of articles entitled voices from a sick room whether she ever wrote more than one or not i cannot say the following is the only one flowers we can find among her and it is so interesting as to lis for more it is dated draw the curtains shut out the light of heaven the inner world is so full of darkness that the sunshine of the outer world becomes painful by contrast hush little bird don t sing to day there all is dark and still now wretched heart in thy wretchedness draw the dark heavy curtains of despair around thee shut out the light of hope and love hush the voice of praise and think of all thou hast suffered think of thy present misery crowd the future with black people every nook and corner with horrible faces and over all let the thunder crash and and the winds moan and shriek as they moan and shriek only when the great are dying ah what sad do sickness and pain make of the poor body but still when they on the bright within and make it a slave to tremble at their bidding bring chains bring chains cries the fell and ere she has time to rally her forces around her or even think of resistance the poor soul has become a helpless captive and disease wears a smile of triumph upon her ghastly cheek and again lifts up her voice to shout victory and a complete victory it is self pride ambition all are hope is in and if she ever speaks it is only to whisper there is one secret passage by which thou sighs on yet escape but it winds through the of death and the grave herself grows pale and lest she lose her throne for the thousands of obedient servants which have never before disputed her authority are all up in arms against her every nerve begins to quiver and the whole body is in commotion and no wonder the trembling soul sits down amid the ruins of her former self and makes the whole place her cries and don t her she is no criminal v the demands of justice but a prisoner of war and therefore should be dealt kindly with don t gaze at her through her prison bars as though she were a wild beast or some curious object kept only for a show but go to her enveloped in the mantle of love upon your lips the honey dew of human kindness and in your heart the melting tenderness of christian affection don t tell her she is escaping many trials and temptations to she would be exposed if she came in contact with the busy world around her go to the imprisoned eagle and as he looks up into the deep blue sky and beats his wings in agony comfort him with the assurance that his wants are provided for and he himself safe from the arts of the aye tell this to the born eagle but disgust not the ever yearning restless soul with such she may listen but she laughs you to scorn in secret and heaven to be delivered from such she knows her struggles and wild flowers are inward and knows too for that very reason are more terrible greater battles have been fought than the blood fields of europe ever witnessed and with the blood of heroes but she carries on a never ending warfare with and powers the host of hell and of native passions deal gently with her would you win her confidence there is but one passage to her affections that word bolt and bar fly open she takes you by the hand and you to her most sacred and secluded retreat that word is sympathy let her feel it in your tender embrace see it in the glance of your eye hear it in the of your voice it is for this she and sighs and refuses to be comforted where it is not bring her flowers sweet beautiful flowers they are meet companions for her solitude gather blossoms from the apple bough from the meadow from the she will fold them more tenderly to her bosom than the plants for their faces are old familiar ones and she they wear a look of pity but there are more precious things than human sympathy there are sweeter flowers than or roses they bloom on the prayer consecrated mountains of amid the ancient of along the way trodden by the man of sorrows beneath the	28
shadows of the gross and around the borrowed oh gather them sighs on with no hand there are enough for you and her enough for every heart in the universe take them to the poor sufferer their fragrance will make the lonely chamber like a garden of the tearful eyes will turn and the pale lips tremulous with will whisper father forgive me for i knew not what i did when i murmured at thy dealings then a solemn hush will follow a holy twilight of the soul as if the sorrows of earth were with the joys of heaven the pains of with the of the oh these are the flowers for a how dreary and desolate does it seem without them the strong and healthy may live on careless and but what would become of the poor grief stricken despairing soul if she could not repose quietly in the bosom her beloved and say with child like simplicity morning and evening our father who art in heaven mi of he songs in the night the sun sinks the western hills the sky seems on fire and the other half with light fantastic clouds all nature is beautiful can i be sad nay away with sadness away with sorrow i will forget everything my strangeness my hopes and seek for happiness where happiness only is to be found in the sacred of god god sometimes speaks in earthquake and in storm but oftener in the still small voice of love he men as loving fathers plead god is our father yet we his face and hide ourselves when at the cool of day he in the garden how sweet the thought that god our heavenly father is our are not hidden from him he knows our hearts and with all this knowledge he is good so tender so pitiful oh to love him as he deserves oh for a thousand tongues to sing his praises tell the sick tell the tell the broken hearted of this god tell the wretched the guilty the prodigal of this gracious father of hope the last good night in the day of health and prosperity everybody feels like singing but in the night of grace must produce the song of holy confidence and hope such a song is the following which has probably been printed oftener than any other of miss s poems it has appeared in several papers finds a place in s from poets was set to music by george f and appears in his school for the cabinet organ with many it has been a favorite mother good night my work is done i go to rest with the setting but not to wake with the morning light so dearest mother a long good night father good night the shadows glide silently down to the river s side the river itself with stars is bright so dearest father a long good night sisters good night the roses close their eyes for the night s repose and a strange damp mist my sight so dearest sisters a long good night brothers good night the sunset flush has died away and a midnight hush has settled o er plain and mountain so dearest brothers a long good night good night good night nay do not weep i m weary of earth long to sleep i shall wake again with the dawning light of eternal day good night good night wild flowers and i remember the time when ave went forth arm in arm over the newly fields the from onr pathway with our baskets on our arms to gather the that hung in clusters on their slender but thou art gone now to the fairer fields of paradise to pluck sweeter fruit than ever here thou art gone the bushes have fallen long ago before the the field has changed its appearance and as for me the breezes me forth in vain i cannot go sickness and sorrow have come between me and the love of earth they have cast a dark shadow over what i once thought fair but as there can be no shadow without a light beyond it i have caught bright glimpses of a better home a land of life and glory hope we have no clue to the time when this was written it is imperfect the second verse is not complete in the copy but is it not true to life so far as earthly hope is concerned of the hope of the gospel our would speak differently what a is hope what a charming she whispers so you can but believe her the garments of truth and of she and every thus she when down in the valley i m talking with sorrow she comes with a song all its burden to she my companion of hope then she me np to the top of a mountain she brings me a draught from a clear sparkling fountain and talks of the beautiful prospect before us till ere i m aware the dark night settles o er us sometimes in my anger i try to her i call her a and an idle intruder but she kisses caresses and and till i build me a castle the next when i firmly resolve i will listen no longer than my will or my reason somehow she is stronger i her her despise her and doubt her and yet it is true i can t live her earth not the christian s home earth with all thy grief and sorrow and thy changes of to morrow with thy woe and with thy parting with thy tears of anguish starting with thy countless heart strings breaking with thy loved and lost with thy millions sighing with thy scenes of dead and dying with thy without number the old and youthful slumber earth	28
oh earth thus dark and dreary cold and sad and worn and weary thou art not my home earth oh earth with all thy slaughter and thy streams of blood like water o er the field of battle wild where the mighty armies rushing of all human feeling with the war loudly and the gallant flying on the dead and dying where the foe the friend the brother bathed in blood sleep by each other earth oh earth thus dark and blood and tears make up thy story thou art not my home earth with all thy scenes of anguish where the poor and starving to the proud bending and their cries for mercy where the slave with bosom swelling which despair has made its dwelling and the tear drops falling sight to human hearts appalling but in vain to that must bind him ever earth oh earth with each possession sold to and oppression thou art not my home earth oh earth thy brightest treasures like thy hopes and like thy pleasures wintry winds are daily pain and woe and death youth and love and beauty crushing and the sweetest voices rich and poor and old and blooming to one common mansion while the cries of every nation mingle with those of creation earth oh earth thus dark and dreary songs of cold and sad and worn and weary art not my home earth oh earth though dark and in thy state of glory angels came upon thee gazing songs of love and rapture raising for thou then bright and beaming with the sunlight on thee streaming with thy crystal waters shores with forests waving witli thy plains and with thy mountains with thy ever fountains earth oh earth once fair and holy fallen fallen and so lowly thou art not my home earth oh earth bowed down by sorrow cheer thee for there comes a morrow night and clouds and gloom and o earth in a flood of light when the curse upon thee lying with its thousand woes attending death and pain and that the heart strings will be banished and forever earth oh earth renewed in glory love and joy make up the story oh be thou my home earth although thou seem st forsaken yet a note of praise awaken for the angels lowly bending round the throne of light gaze upon thee sad and groaning wild flowers listen to thy bitter moaning thou hast scenes to them amazing while on s mountain gazing and they smile on every nation purchased with so great salvation earth oh earth renewed in glory angels shall thy story oh be thou my home earth the will soon break o er thee and thy will restore thee far more bright and far more blooming and more glorious robes assuming than when first o er ringing angel voices were heard singing for thy king himself descending heaven and earth together with his saints a countless number those who live and those who slumber over thee will reign victorious earth oh earth thus bright and glorious be thou then my home we sorrow not as others without hope while looking over an old manuscript by one who is long since passed from time into eternity i met with the following lines it is six years to day since my died aiid five months since my left me forever they sleep in the grave and there they will remain through endless years he then went on in strains mournful and tender and with all a father s his loss i could not or hope der that he wept the tears of anguish and despair if as he said they are to remain in the dark tomb through endless years the glorious morning was unknown to him he saw only the tomb and considered not that there is one who holds the keys of the grave and who will soon burst the icy bars of death and bring forth the righteous to immortality truly that morning has charms for the christian god grant that if i am called to slumber for a while i may have part in the first ie the messenger bird oh fly away to the better land bird of the snowy wing away to the blood washed band and hear the songs they sing but bear a message from us dove to that bright and happy throng for we have friends whom we dearly love who swell the conqueror s song oh tell them our hearts are sad and lone our homes not bright as of we miss the soft the soothing tone of the friends we loved before oh tell them we sigh for the better land for earth has grown sad and chill and we long rejoicing with to stand on the heights of s hill wild flowers oil tell them we long to share their rest afar from all earthly strife we long to lean on our s breast and by the tree of life oh tell them our hopes are there for our earthly hopes are o er and we sigh for the land all bright and fair we sigh for the shore then fly away to the better land thou bird of the snowy wing oh fly away to the blood washed band and hear the songs they sing and then return the speed of when the night grows dark and chill and tell us oh tell us thou white winged dove do they love do they love us still we there is one in that home who loves and remembers us yet though weary and sorrowful now we we know that he will not forget we ll trust him then the great and the strong by his own almighty hand he ll bring us soon the blood washed throng to the bright the better land our ship is homeward bound what though the angry are high	28
and darkness around let hope be bright in every eye our ship is bound of hope what nor moon nor stars appear amid the gloom profound why should we yield a place to fear our ship is bound what though the glare above and roar when with the eye of faith and love we view the distant shore we know that friends are waiting there we loved in life before and angel forms all bright and fair line the eternal shore we ve often longed with them to bow at our s feet he loved us first we love him now then let the beat and let them bear our hopes away although they once were sweet we catch a glimpse of coming day oh let the beat the coward with trembling form into the gloom profound but we can smile to view the storm our ship is homeward bound and though for us on life s dark wave no be found oh let our hearts be true and brave our ship is homeward bound wild flowers midnight shades of night have gathered round tis the hour of gloom profound tis the hour many sleep tis the hour when many weep over pleasures buried deep faces smiling through the day lips that told a spirit gay eyes that beamed as delight now concealed from human sight put aside the mask to night tossing on the couch of pain seeking rest but all in vain with the dark and dreary tomb oft appearing through the gloom weary wait their doom bright and golden dreams have some on their airy they come giving fancy leave to to the happy scenes of or to some shore by the hearth he holds so dear softly ringing in his ear gentle voices faces bright bursting on his sight sits the wanderer to night clasping hands in holy trust long since into dust gazing into death sealed eyes with a look of sweet surprise every tear the songs of hope from some rugged mountain high making journeys the sky or in talking with the birds and flowers poets spend the midnight hours that by day flying ever when pursued like the desert bright with joy and with delight fondly clasp to night oh that morning s early beam should the dream oh that love and hope fly like the mist in yonder sky when the burning sun is high there s a morning yet to break when the shall awake the couch and from the grave the mountain and the cave beneath the ocean wave then the dream of life is o er then they wake to sleep no more then all earthly hopes shall fly like the mist in yonder sky and that morning nigh sunday the old the young and the middle aged all meet to day in the house of prayer a thousand churches in our own and other lands the voice of wild flowers praise and goes ii to heaven the lord is risen oh glorious tidings the lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to peter aye and to mary also the poor sinner whose touch would have been to the of our own times and still more wonderful he hath appeared to thomas to thomas the who laughed at the story of the the risen now bride for he sleeps no longer let thy glad songs of praise and adoration reach the skies for thy lord is not among the dead he is risen greatly o daughter of shout o daughter of for thy has burst the iron bands of death and come forth a mighty conqueror for thy sins he laid himself down in the icy tomb he rises again for thy justification thy he suffered died and was buried he comes forth again that thou be a of his glory he has the dreary tomb by his own dear presence and now he has ascended to his and your to his god and your god he has taken his seat at the right hand of the majesty on high and there despairing soul trembling under the burden of sin he for thee he points to the cross on dripping with his own precious blood and in a voice of tender compassion i died for that songs of hope sinner spare oh spare him for my sake he has entered into the holy place by his own blood having obtained eternal for thee daughter of dost thou remember me thou whose footsteps are unknown whose path is on the sea whose earth and heaven whose throne dost thou remember me thou whom winds and waves obey at whose supreme command the shining worlds pursue their way or in their stand thou at whose touch the hills and burning mountains flee thou of the universe dost thou remember me this world though fallen still is thine and dearer far to day all the countless that shine but never went astray here the blessed son of god was born and wept and died our valleys and our hills he trod and they are on him my guilty soul through him i come to thee thou dost accept my sacrifice thou dost remember me wild tis l be not afraid dark hung the clouds o er a lonely bark was on the sea where wild the played deep terror filled each trembling frame when suddenly the accents came t is i be not afraid a martyr stood with tranquil air he saw the stake the there the all arrayed but though such darkness reigned around he caught the sweet the cheering sound t is i be not afraid a weary pilgrim alone for him was breathed no friendly tone no friendly hand brought aid but through the gloom so dark and a gentle whisper reached his ear tis i be not afraid a mother knelt in anguish	28
wild beside a loved a dying child and tears in torrents strayed a soothing voice breathed to her heart in tones that bade despair depart tis i be not afraid ui on a bed of pain and death a christian faintly drew his breath with spirit half dismayed he heard a soft a tender voice it caused that spirit to rejoice t is i be not afraid songs of e a penitent with streaming eye unto heaven his cry and fervently he prayed a brilliant light around him shone and with it came a heavenly tone tis i be not afraid and when the from yonder skies shall bid the silent dead arise when and stars shall fade when roar and mountains fall the saints shall hear above them all t is i be not afraid the only perfect one i have just finished d s history of the e many noble characters are here brought to light how many fervent christians how many lofty souls how many holy hearts the firm and the gentle the brave and courageous the mild the zealous and fiery and a host of others equally noble in the master s cause and yet they all had their faults not one of them was perfect though we may sometimes feel to their yet surely it is a comfort to the poor christian beset with temptations and wandering daily from the straight and narrow path to look back upon the lives of the best of earth s sons the noblest and the and behold that even they sometimes went g wild flowers astray it up his soul with new hope and courage it bids it cast aside every thought of justification save by faith in christ it that faith and the weary pilgrim to the feet of him alone is holy and perfect the dying christian i have heard music from a far off land where sighs and sad are never heard where friends can meet and clasp each other s hand but ne er give utterance to that dreadful word which has wrung hearts and like a funeral has for our departed hopes farewell i have had visions of that blessed where flowers and fruits immortal grow tar far beyond the troubled waves of time where streams of living waters sparkling flow and while a pilgrim here i sadly i love to call that land my home and often with the passing breeze i hear a sweet a sad perchance a warning tone heaven calls for thee falls on my willing ear oh can the glorious message be mine own can it be mine unworthy child of clay to win the of everlasting day through him who died through him who rose again through him who lives and lives i may at last that rest obtain and i may stand upon the lovely shore where youth and health on every cheek shall bloom beyond the reach of death and of the tomb of hope then hail sweet voice sweet message to my heart hail land of love and home of endless peace ye ties that bind me here oh quickly part and shout my soul for joy to find release with angels meet and sing in sweet accord er forever with the lord the request come sit here close beside me and take my hand in thine and tell me of the happy home i think will soon bo mine oh tell me of the river and of the garden fair and of the tree of life that waves its healing branches there and tell me of the love of god who gave his only son to die and suffer on the cross for deeds that i done and tell to me the holy words the blessed when from the courts of heaven he came an exile for my sake i love to hear mary sat at the s feet i wish i could have been there too i have shared her seat i envy much the little group that met at board to listen to the gentle voice of him whom they adored i envy those rude who rowed him o er the sea who walked him and talked with him as i now talk to thee wild flowers i envy those who brought their sick just at the close of day that they might be restored to health when passed that way had i been living then i know i would have joined the crowd have mercy oh have mercy lord i would have cried aloud thou that i still may go and tell him all my grief and go i will lord i believe help thou my i know my heart is very hard i feel the load within but in the blood of christ i wash away my sin j i lay my burden at his feet while to his cross i cling i do so long to hear him speak death seems a blessed thing now kneel here close beside me and lift thy voice in prayer that i may say his will be done whatever i may bear oh i should love to for him if that could be his will but pray that i may be resigned may suffer and be stiu complete in him does not the blood of alone from all sin who but are invited to the great fountain are my robes filthy where can they be made white but in the blood of the lamb is my of heart and who can soften and subdue it save the almighty one to its and knows all its trouble am i tempted sorely tempted who can pity like him who in the wilderness met face to face the great enemy the great of mankind ah my poor heart when i think of all that is in the	28
past and of all the future may have in store for me but is there no in is there no physician there will he not take me by the hand and whisper be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee will he not heal thy wounds by pouring into them the oil of consolation he has promised to do this yea much more than this and will he for the first time in the history of mankind fail to perform what he has spoken nay nay and i will doubt no longer my my have compassion upon me and declare to father as the lord my g trust in god trust in god he will direct thee he love and will protect thee lean upon his mighty arm fear no danger fear no harm trust him for his grace and power trust him in each trying hour trust in god er thee trust him he sometimes thee wild tis in love to lead back when thou from the track trust him cling to him forever and he will desert thee never trust in god the of ages louder still the tempest heave and roar mountain lash the shore nations tremble hark the warning comes the night and comes the morning on the walls of catch a glimpse of s lion man of sorrows lamb once slain comes as king of kings to reign and from long oppressed creation break the of salvation trust in god the thee and while such a hope thee wilt thou fold thy hands in ease no the golden moments seize lay thy gift upon the altar thou hast duties do not a alone and yet not alone am i sad and yet not sad no human form upon my solitude and yet he who fills creation with himself is surely with me sad i am for there are many earthly thoughts that contribute to cast a shade upon my soul and yet heavenly thoughts soon such mournful ones songs of hope oil that affection might be placed upon things above and not on things on the earth my heart be gloomy when such a glorious prospect opens before me a world of immortal beauty by the presence of god himself and a glorious city even the new fly lingering moments fly away and bring that long expected day when christ shall appear in glory to take his weary children home thou shalt know hereafter the wind has how still and tranquil all the ghastly moon still shines upon the wall while other eyes are closed why do i weep ye welcome sleep and bear me to the shadowy land of dreams where t by crystal streams and gathered flowers would never fade or talked angels the pleasant shade it was a dream ah yes and life to me was once a dream smooth as the placid sea when all is calm and on its bosom lies the golden radiance of the summer skies there came a storm the thunder s dreadful roar the angry waves that beat against the shore awakened me oh i had lived too long in the bright of fancy and of song perhaps twas well the storm swept o er the sea perhaps twas well the tumult startled me twas well i learned there s much to do and dare wild much to be suffered much to meekly bear but when i found the real though and thought of life and trembled as i when like the leaves in autumn day by day the hopes i cherished hastened to decay and hopeless helpless in my great despair i turned to earth but found no solace there twas well for me that in the darkened skies i sa w the star of arise i know not why though nature to know that all my dreams of happiness below should be thus yet the time is near when i poor often here shall reach the port and safely at last the scenes and sufferings of the past beholding where the shadows darkest lay the dawning glory of immortal day and all along the path that seemed so leaving this one memorial god was here thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty the thought is ever present shall these eyes indeed see the maker of the universe shall these feet indeed walk the golden city shall these hands wave the palm of victory and strike the of the glorious harp whose music shall be sweeter than that of david s can this be possible and do i and mourn because of present a oh the future the future what has it not in reserve for me glories of which mortal never dreamed eternal life eternal happiness perpetual youth knowledge un songs of hope bounded yet ever increasing fly fly fly days of pain and sorrow hail all hail bright of it will come and i oh the thought me i poor and wretched and sinful shall be blessed forever forever all is well dark the future before me bitter my bosom swell but a light is breaking o er me and a voice all all is well sad and lone has been my journey sad and lone my way must be care and sorrow pain and sickness long have been allotted me sunshine that o er youthful a bright and magic spell seldom breaks upon my pathway yet i know that all is well if the hand that guides the the when they cry can it be that i m unnoticed by a father s loving eye he has thoughts of mercy toward me his designs i cannot tell tis enough for me to trust him he knows best and all is well many doubts and many shadows oft have flitted through my mind wild flowers and i ve questioned sadly but no	28
answer could i find earth was silent to my pleading nature taught me to rebel but when i recall the promise am thee all is well many things i can t many winding see but i ll go with faith for the lord is leading me and when beams of endless glory the mysterious clouds grateful shall i tell my story grateful say that all was well we shall meet we have wandered oft together at the hour of setting sun shall we wander thus together when the toils of life are done many hours we ve spent together scenes of joy and grief have known shall we spend the hours together when the joy will be alone sad indeed would be our parting if we hoped to meet no more but although the tears are starting look ave to a shore of hope dark indeed would lie the morrow when apart we sadly if beyond this world of sorrow ave could see no happier home but we ve heard a joyful story of a land that s bright and fair and we hope to share its glory and to meet each other there swiftly onward to the ocean the troubled waves of time bearing us with every motion nearer to the blessed soon the tears that now are starting with their causes will be o er soon ths hands now clasped in parting will be joined we have shared one home together ave have sat around one board and we ll find a home together la the paradise restored what the daughter of the cloud said down the a torrent to be pent up in an old dark tub and made the slave of the it not have been better for thee water to have fallen in the beautiful forest to lie in the bosom of the lily or become a looking glass for the many colored insects i would be useful whispered the daughter of the cloud therefore i wild flowers have stooped to an humble action i left the abode of the lightning my lot is a lowly one my life full of sorrow and humiliation i must pass through a fiery ordeal i must be cast out and despised by those whom i have served but then will be the time of any exaltation the blessed sun will take pity upon me and make me a of beauty in the angels highway though no application has been made of this yet the truth designed to be taught is easily gathered the christian may be called to many a lowly act to a which will subject him to reproach and suffering here but the day of exaltation is sure to come he that himself shall be exalted the day when from the heavens the will descend who will the body of our humiliation that it may be to the body of his glory am bible union how glorious will the humble workers of earth appear when they are by the sun of in the morning that will be an day of surpassing loveliness this is not home this is not home from o er the stormy sea bright birds of passage wing their way to me they bear a message from the loved and lost who tried the angry waves and safely crossed and now in find repose where never roar nor tempest blows as strangers here in foreign lands we oh why should not the exile sigh for home songs of hope a thousand beset our way and night is round us why not wish for day the storm is high beneath its wintry wing the blossom oh why not wish for spring the waters roll o er treasures buried deep and sacred dust the lonely keep homes are dissolved and ties are rent in twain and things that charm can never charm again on every brow we mark the hand of time oh why not long for the celestial wave after rolls inward to the land then comes the wail and then the parting hand and those for we would have freely died are borne away upon the tide we weep and mourn we bid the sea restore it our grief and takes one idol more tis well for us that ties which bind the heart too strongly here are rudely snapped apart tis well the at the fountain breaks the golden bowl is shattered for our to show how frail and fleeting all we love to raise our souls to lasting things above we are but like the tribes in every land but call no land their home and what their ancient is to them so is to us the new then while our hopes our hearts our homes are there thy kingdom come must be our fervent prayer the soul s consolation ah well it is for thee that there is one ear that will listen one eye that one heart that will wild flowers take in thou god me was ever contained in so few words repeat it when the heart is breaking when between thee and every earthly object a gulf dark and thou god me thou god me me thou the agony of my spirit thou what i suffer and thou must give me strength and grace to endure all and to say in truth and sincerity thy will not mine be done we see through a glass darkly we weep when from the darkened sky the are driven and er we turn our eye our earthly hopes are but could we look beyond the storm that all before us we might observe a heavenly form guiding the tempest o er us the eye that sees the s fall that never sleeps nor our however small and every sigh he numbers the angels fly at his command with love their they lead us gently by the hand	28
fixed upon thee as thou alone in thy majesty the of are many and great and they move along in state with a scornful eye and a haughty air they have proudly taken their station there while the blood of thy comrades the sod and thou only art left a prophet of god wild yet firm is thy step and calm thy the lord god of hosts is for thee now and strong in his strength thou advance and defy the with thy piercing while the of bend at thy nod and the people own that the lord he is god the sun shines bright in the sky and the morning breeze sweeps gently by and all is quiet on earth in air not a sound escapes from that multitude there though eager each eye and troubled each mien yet the stillness of death over the scene but a voice is heard and clear and loud it breaks on the ears of the listening crowd they quickly obey a space is cleared the is slain the altar is reared while the of around it bend and their god an answer to send the day wears on and the sun is high still round that altar they madly cry but the sky is serene as ever before and frantic with rage they shout the more but t is all in vain and the day has past and the of have yielded at last each heart beats high with anxiety there as with calm majestic air alone and exposed to a nation s frown the altar long since thrown down t is the hour for the evening sacrifice now and he solemnly on the mountain s brow on the name of the lord his god he calls when lo quick as lightning the fire falls a smoke to the sky and it arises a mingled cry and bowed is each head and bent is each knee as the lord he is god rings loud o er the sea t is night and the evening breeze grows chill the prophet with still he has seen the of slain and now he for the falling rain the heavens grow black at s word arise thy prayer is heard the sacred page golden headed youth and silver headed age bend together earnestly o er the sacred page one amid spring blossoms while the falling leaves gather round the other sitting mid the one amid the twilight of the coming day while the shadows round the other s way golden headed youth and silver headed age bead the same sweet lessons from the sacred page eyes that brim with laughter eyes that dim with years resting there pay tribute in a flood of tears lips and pallid trembling at the mournfully repeating the golden headed youth and silver headed age draw their consolation from the sacred page one is in the valley where the grass is green while the other on a wintry scene both have lost their birth right both have felt their loss and they both regain it through the blessed cross wild flowers golden headed youth and silver headed age find their way to heaven in the sacred page like the little children waiting to be blessed one goes forth rejoicing to the s breast while the other to his mighty arm mid the swelling feeling no alarm golden headed youth and silver headed age come and seek for treasures in the sacred page to the one how tender is the s call yet the invitation he extends to all earthly fountains fail you hasten to every grief of childhood every pang of age oh what a book is the bible there is enough in one verse to condemn the whole world and enough in another to redeem it no man in a dark night can behold himself in a mirror until a lamp is lighted and not even then distinctly and perfectly until the dawn of day so no man can see himself in god s mirror until the beams of the divine lamp the holy spirit his soul nor even then can he see perfectly what a wretched and distorted being he is until the day break and being made like his he what he is with what he once was behold how he loved us while on the cross the while friend nor foe his anguish while many a and bitter break harshly on his holy ear he what that last prayer be oh wondrous love he for me deep anguish fills his troubled soul the streams of blood in torrents roll and louder are heard he breathes not one complaining yet hark he what can it be oh wondrous love he for me he bows his head dies darkness o the skies loud shake the earth and air and heave in horror there angels the act with wonder see oh love he dies for me he leaves the dark and gloomy grave while angel round him wave and rising from the mountain s brow appears before his father now he t what can those be oh love he for me and can i then such scenes behold and still be careless still be cold can i with air of sinful pride cast such unbounded love aside my soul oh can it can it be has died in vain for thee oh no the crimson streams that glide from s deeply blood stained side invite my soul so stained with sin to wash away its guilt therein and in those precious drops i see christ has not died in vain for me wild flowers the in thrilling tone before his mighty father s throne that for his sake my guilty name within the book of life may c a place he smiles and now i see christ does not plead in vain for me amazing love what tongue	28
slumber by my side we shall be equals then i starved and thou clothed and fed and had enough to spare thou have come with gentle tread and stood beside my dying bed and found a blessing there wild but now my curse nor mine alone the moment yet will be when thou wilt stand before the throne and hear it said in thunder tone thou it not to me the light grew dim throughout the room soon darkness reigned supreme but that pale from the tomb still eyed me through the dusky gloom thank god twas but a dream hear and help me darkness and death are round me the night is late yet once the shepherd found me in such a state he my fears to rest he took me to his breast is he less kind to day lord hear me pray oh hear me pray remove the hateful sin which all within and my way oh hear me in my anguish my god i i faint i beneath thy rod i tremble on the brink support me or i sink oh hear me while i cry oh save me or i die i farewell we stood upon the lonely shore and watched the bounding bark which far away the loved ones bore on wild and dark and then there came a gloomy sound mournfully mournfully stealing around and the sound was this as it rose and fell o er the broad expanse farewell we our home once bright and fair no word of hope we said tor sorrow entered with us there with slow and silent tread and came a voice from every room mournfully mournfully through the gloom and the voice was this as it sadly fell on our aching hearts farewell farewell the garden that at was gay and the bower seemed to have wept their bloom away all in one little hour we heard a voice upon the breeze li mournfully mournfully through the trees and the voice was this as it rose and fell on the air farewell farewell years weary years have passed us o er since that unhappy wild and in our arms we clasp once more with rapture our first born and thankful for our father s care gratefully gratefully raise the prayer that when life is o er our may swell where lips breathe no more farewell farewell no mother no mother well the burning tears may flow and thy pillow orphan now no mother s tender voice may soothe thy woe no mother s kiss is on thy aching brow thou footsteps passing by the door oft hast thou heard thy mother s footsteps there but ah she comes unhappy boy no more to say good night or hear thy evening prayer weep on there s none to wipe away thy tears there s none on earth thy mother s place to fill the night seems dark but when the appears darkness and gloom will be around thee still for thou hast lost what time can ne er restore what other friends though kind can never be she had bright visions of a better shore but asked to live it was alone for thee kneel wretched orphan kneel beside thy bed thy voice is choked thy sobs have louder grown no mother s hand is lying on thy head no mother s heart is lifted with thy own but pray and on the s breast which feels for every grief and every care pillow thy head and sweetly sink to rest a than mother will protect thee there to a mother on the death of her child mother thy loved one now in deep unbroken rest but not with smiling brow upon thy tender breast oh no for death with cruel dart anguish wild has rudely torn thy yearning heart and borne aw ay thy child home is at break of day and at set of sun lo the grave the clay of thy departed one and vainly does thy spirit sigh with deep and wild to clasp once more within thy arms thy dear thy darling child cold death has snatched thy lovely flower but lo the day draws near when even death shall lose his power and thy sweet child appear all glorious with immortal life in s garden fair oh mother mother would st thou meet thy dearly loved one there oh would st thou join the blood washed throng on that immortal shore wild oil would st thou swell the conqueror s and greet thy child once more then turn to him who died for thee a death of woe and pain and at the embrace thy child again in goodness is true greatness the following lines were addressed to lier brother on receiving a containing his i touch the spring and lo a face which for these many years within my heart has had a place a tender place ears the large dark eyes look up to mine so like the cheek the brow the features all are thine speak to me brother speak and tell me of each grief and care for be they great or small a sister s heart would take a share and if it could take all and tell me of each hopeful plan and how the future seems oh may that future to the man lie all the boy now dreams i ve heard thee say thou be great and with the gifted shine t is but there s a nobler fate i pray it may be thine it is to be an man to thy race and like the good do good in every place to struggle bravely for the right though kings defend the wrong to live as in thy maker s sight and in his strength be strong to put the garment on to keep it pure	28
and white and when the endless day shall dawn a crown of light dear brother fame is but a breath so i for thee a holy life a happy death a eternity beneath the snow and frost of there are living seeds which shall produce abundant so beneath a cold exterior there may be a heart full of high and glorious impulses which at the right season shall burst into blossom and bear precious fruit how often the sun rises in a sky to be obscured before human life is like our to day all sunshine and to morrow clouds wild flowers the sun is tlie same by day and night but the earth comes his light and us so when the sun of seems to have left our horizon and we turn in vain to the right and the left to find him may it not be that the dark dense earth has come us and his life giving beams while he remains the same yesterday to day and forever the has a fragrant smell and the thorn a pleasant fruit it is a disease in the shell fish that makes the pearl so your sickness my friend may be the means of your winning the pearl of great price what plant would if the sun shone forever and what should we be if the sun of prosperity always shone upon our pathway along life s dusty i see the world but not as i saw it once sickness and sorrow have given me another pair of eyes gentle breezes breezes there is vigor in your breath but ye cannot bring the roses to the leaden cheeks of death the soil that produces the weeds would by proper care and cultivation produce the richest crops so will the human heart when by grace and truth the violet cannot become the rose the cannot be the lily and if they could all be the loveliest flower earth would lose half its beauty without variety a scene however fair within itself soon us thou the moral be content in thy proper sphere thou be the violet or the but envy not the rose and the lily all are beautiful when in their appointed place at the shadows toward the west but toward the east at night so when the sun of life the shadows stretch away toward the everlasting hills whence the eternal beams of day shall arise the of i stood at close of day where soft the breezes play and bright beneath the eastern skies the sacred hills of and saw him on the shameful tree the of i heard the mocking throng the anguish of the i saw the brilliant sun dim i heard creation shriek for him i saw him die and die for me the of and then i saw the veil from the eternal world and gazed upon the scene in deep surprise one form alone could fix my eyes i knew him yes indeed twas he the of and though upon his lovely brow a beam of glory rested now wild though angels praised his holy name yet still i he was the same who hung upon the shameful tree the of i knew him by his tender air i knew him by the fervent prayer he breathed for those for whom he died i knew him by his wounded side by these i knew that it was he the of i knew him by the loving smile with which he welcomed vile i knew him for he took a share in all his children s and care i knew him by his love for me the of the vision faded from afar but still t is memory s guiding star to cheer the night and point a way unto an everlasting day when i with eyes shall see the of the a well known group stood on the mountain side and in their midst appeared the oft had they stood in that place their beaming eyes fixed on their s face but never met on s fair brow with such emotions as they cherished now and never with such eager spirits hung mis cell ax y upon tlie words that fell from tongue for never had their master s voice before sounded so sweet as when his mission o er he gathered round him that devoted band to give his blessing and his last command go ye and teach all nations in my name the jew and greek the bond and free the same but first proclaim a s love to those who for his blood and his woes that they believing through his death may live and know their risen can forgive ye shall declare salvation s waters free and bid all nations to the fountain flee and though ye meet with perils dark and and be your portion here though persecution with uplifted sword shall call for blood and your own blood be poured yet know that i your and your friend will be with you till life itself shall end and with all those who boldly shall proclaim to a lost world salvation through my name in every land in every age and till the last shall sound the of time the humble followers of the in silent awe gazed on the wondrous scene beheld their lord in power and glory rise up the bright pathway of the parting skies and while they strove with piercing eyes in vain to catch one glimpse of that dear form again two angels left the bright and heavenly shore and messages of joy and love they bore oh glorious message to that faithful band who on the mountain s top bewildered stand i oh glorious sound to every soul wild from sea to sea from spreading pole to pole in every age oh tell the tidings o er that very shall	28
fool j ability lor acquiring knowledge the inflicted by the lame i the i the and of i a l i broken r i and contents i ot ot foresight aiid courage and in of b ct what t of the of s ot b win man not to he content final a the the wise if o la the world l l evils o ot contentment a e aims with time of life wealth j often tha s what will not men do to get wealth i the the rich hath the ot the rich often s c kin of condemned bad men to hear ill not good of s i lit i li ii ir others man of merit alone can appreciate merit deception s man see other s l to their own why thou the that ia in ko want ot knowledge conceit difficult to cure no to to act well difficult to to act s union la tha contents miscellaneous am weak foes not to be despised caution in dealing with a foe the same counsel how women ought to gain and keep their husband s tions a heroine to her son praise of women the same the bachelor only half a man the best cure for misfortune reward of a wife s devotion women naturally women s a spell to promote in a family description of a good king self conquest must other mercy should be shown to ignorant a king s best treasures and castles c love of home veiled men s horizon contracted the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb the saint should patiently await the hour of his departure what is injurious though dear is to be abandoned a prophet has no honour in his own country and or the indian ra and from the the rain god or the wind god the sun the indian the god of fire and a future life and the one the forest goddess men s various tastes the praise of liberality the same the in autumn the warrior containing prose etc to containing parallel passages from the classical authors page introduction and introduction p line for read s page place a mark of to the note after main at the end of line page m note line or below read in the page line from foot put a after gain page or still a grief read share men s grief page line from foot omit li and iv page lis line put full stop after aid rd line from the foot lines and line for read the form with a short a at the end in line line and line the feminine form k ia correct page line or read page read s page line read nt page line for author read drama dr if now we can find in the and these not single and obscure but numerous and clear which present a surprising to passages in the new testament we shall be justified in concluding that these die und von dr f xiv introduction are no of chance but that taken altogether they afford proof that the was acquainted with the writings of the new testament used them as he thought fit and has woven into his own work numerous passages if not word for word yet preserving the meaning and it according to his indian mode of thought a fact which till now no one has noticed to put this assertion beyond doubt i shall place side by side the most important of these passages in the and the corresponding of the new testament i distinguish three different kinds of passages to which can be from the new testament first such as with more or less of verbal difference agree in sense so that a thought which is clearly christian appears in an indian form of expression these are far the most numerous and indicate the way in which the original was used in general secondly passages in which a peculiar and characteristic expression of the new testament is borrowed word for word though the meaning is sometimes quite changed passages in which thought and expression agree though the former receives from the a meaning suited to indian conception although the influence of the christian may not be considered to extend to the religious and moral ideas not of a christian character such as are in the present volume which are found in the indian writers and to affect their originality i regard the question raised by dr as of sufficient interest to induce me to here with the discussion of the subject which appeared in the introduction to my little work and moral sentiments rendered from writers published in which is in the present volume in order if possible to reach a solution of the problem by dr three points must be considered and settled is the age of the whether supposing its antiquity not to be such as to its originality any christian doctrines could at the date of its composition have been imported into india and in an or written form so as to be accessible to the author introduction if hu mind was open to their reception and bis work when compared with the or doctrines any each to their ideas as to justify the of their being borrowed myself offering any definite opinion on this intricate problem the solution of which depends on the answers to be given to these questions i shall refer the reader to what has been said on the first two points by the different writers quoted further on and myself offer some remarks on the third point in forming an opinion on a question of this we should supposing the allied to be admitted consider first whether the ideas sentiments or figures of speech supposed to be borrowed by the indians from the west are not such as might naturally arise in the	28
human or at least in the oriental secondly whether cannot be traced at least in in indian writers of such antiquity as to the supposition of foreign influence whether do not so the indian writings as to be and original whether the writings of any other countries known to be independent of christian influences contain ideas or sentiments supposed to be exclusively or peculiarly christian and what probability there is that the of the period in question could have been brought into contact with foreign ideas and whether they would have been and morally open t and susceptible of influences i venture to make the following remarks on this there is no doubt a general or perhaps i might say a striking resemblance between the manner in which his own divine nature devotion to his person and sets forth the blessings which will result to his from such worship on the one band and on the other the strain in which die founder of christianity is represented in the and especially in the fourth as speaking of himself and his claims and the which will follow on their faithful recognition at the same time the contains much that is exclusively indian in its character and which finds no in the new testament doctrine xvi introduction some of the in the indian poem also present a resemblance more or less close to some in the bible perhaps the most striking are the of the ix they who devoutly worship me are in me and i in them and xii thy mind upon or in me fix thine understanding on me and thou shalt thereafter dwell in me as compared with john vi he that my flesh and my blood in me and i in him and john f neither pray i for these alone but for them also which believe on me through their word that they all may be one as thou father art in me and i in thee that they also may be in us here however it will be observed that the condition of in the speaker is not the same in all the cases and in particular that the indian work neither the idea of eating his flesh and drinking his blood nor the existence of two divine persons in the some passages occur which in part convey the same or a similar idea thus in il it is said hj we have been in thee and in x this o hath been in thee o son of strength he has no other and in viii wa we gods are in you as if fighting in coats of mail in the and german by dr and himself professor to the words in the last passage the sense of being in anything being closely connected with it to the similar phrases and in the other two he the sense of having a share in which seems to be the meaning in one passage at least vii where the compound occurs in any case close connection is the words here rendered thereafter by in the height m der he here who has and whom he as having on high after this life the words however usually mean after this and k t gives hereafter with this passage dr iii seek those things which are above etc introduction and in viii the says to wm m thou art and we are thine the following are some other remarks which i have to upon dr s ind ant as above quoted p he ia far from darkness viii p light of lights far from darkness is his name xiii which he with god ia light and in him is no darkness at all john i the words here translated far from darkness would be better rendered by beyond the darkness they are not peculiar to this passage but occur also in the da ii and v the words meaning above or beyond the darkness occur also in i gazing towards the light beyond the darkness we have ascended to the highest the sun a god among the gods in the lines of the the words are immediately preceded hj a the sun coloured beyond the darkness the indian writer had thus no need to borrow this epithet from the bible it may be remarked besides that the verse g viii contains many other of as the supreme deity p but if i were not constantly engaged in these worlds would perish if i did not work my work iii which is compared with my father hitherto and i work john v this is quoted as one of the passages which contain a expression of the new testament with a different application but as the author it the application seems to be nearly the same as he renders the words u these worlds would perish or would sink whereas it appears that the whole verses ff points to the influence exercised by the example of an eminent man on the people around him and leads to the conclusion that the words should be rendered these men would be discouraged or led into error if i did not perform xviii introduction good works as an example for their imitation in r m s the words are c all good people would be destroyed the sentiment expressed in iii is also to be found in il edition see to this volume p line p dead in me x ye are dead and your life is hid with christ in gk d col il the phrase here rendered dead in me is mad pr it is explained by e as mad having your life gone to me the sense is not obtaining a support for your soul or self without me the followed by undoubtedly means dead ie one whose breath is gone just as i e does but with a word preceding it means gone to thus means gone to or	28
the gods expressed in a variety of terms which are in the latter part of this volume ff and fl is there as has been asserted by dr indian for anything essentially new in the conception of devotion which was not contained in these expressions and it is scarcely necessary to say that a popular worship and adoration of various must have prevailed all along from the age down to that of among those sections of the people which were inaccessible to abstract speculation and to ideas and might not the and popular have been blended in the minds even of members of the learned class and have found their expression in such systems as the t i may mention here although the question before na is not c ff coarse of life though at by him bu u declared the female to be with real of the world here therefore we to have the view of a writer to s system whether the passage be more recent or earlier in date the the remark of whose book will be noticed below in bear on this question see below an ac of the stages by which that waa elevated to the dignity of with xxii introduction in it that in a just issued on a contribution to the of the in which the prince s career and his relations with are traced throughout the great professor remarks as follows p f on the a conversation on the spirit in which men should fight may in the old poem ie the poem in its earliest form before it had been modified by later influences have found a place before the beginning of the great battle only it was probably not carried on between and but rather between and his learned teacher even now the begins with a short talk between these two and then passes to and such hints are always significant the beautiful verses which proceeding on a view of the world point out the folly of all dread of death the profound reflections on energy and resignation the mutual relation of which was always an attractive mystery to the indian mind are certainly old but not so the of the soul of the world with and then that of the latter with of professor h says further on p in the old poem he is a mere man and indeed a man who does not stand high either by birth or by nobility of sentiment he is the and no doubt also the brother in law of his best friend and adviser all the schemes which according to the ancient doctrine of warfare were held to be or were planned by e and were after some resist this is the third essay which professor has published on the one on den des appeared in another on is to be found in the second number of the journal of the german oriental society for the same year in these valuable the author seeks to discover and the ideas entertained of the in those parts of the great which appear to be the most ancient and to distinguish them from the new or modified which are found in those passages which may reasonably be held to have been produced and inserted in it at a later period t compare the passage from the ix ff translated by me in the indian for november p where unfair fighting with their on the ground that they could not otherwise have been overcome k introduction ance either out by himself or permitted to take effect in p professor h remarks what impelled the to a man into an of the supreme deity is an as yet there must have been powerful political as well as which brought about this result the old of the must have been with a quite different such as e g he is represented in the the hero of a brave and victorious population to whose the old indian had to p the of is as yet unknown to the older portion of the but everywhere later pieces which teach that doctrine are so that looking to the whole we say that this doctrine of the identity of with being a doctrine which so to speak turned the entire old poem down has the whole of the existing besides the there is another part of the to which i wish to refer as it also has been to prove that a knowledge of christianity existed in india in the early centuries of our era i mean the passages in which the the white island or continent and its inhabitants are referred to this account is by professor d ed il if to be one of the latest additions made to the great poem in m xii ff we are told that the sage flew up into the sky and alighted on the top of mount and looking towards the saw the great island to the north of the ocean of milk a is at least several miles higher than inhabited by white men without organs of sense free from sin with bodies of umbrella shaped heads and a hundred feet who with their continually and devoutly the reason for this opinion a that the u in the n n in the to l p note regarding t how had they if they had no of i xxiv introduction licked the universal faced god of sun like brightness here the story of stops to be resumed afterwards these inhabitants of l are again described in verses as being moon like in brilliancy devoted to n and both names of of one deity or and as entering into or becoming absorbed in the eternal god of a thousand rays the island was visited by three and who however could not see the god being blinded by the blaze of his glory	28
verse after performing for a hundred years they saw the white men who as a reward of the of their minds on the deity obtain each from a lustre equal to that of the sun as it shines at the end of the great periods then was beheld a glory equal to a thousand and the white men all run up crying out adoration to the god the god comes but the three visitors are unable to see him and are told by a god that the deity could be seen only by those white men and that they the visitors might depart that the deity who could with difficulty be viewed owing to his intense brightness could not be beheld by any one destitute of devotion but only by those who after a length of time had attained to the capacity of one god the account of l s visit to the white island which had been broken off at verse is resumed at verse after homage to and receiving homage from the white men he addresses a hymn to the deity who appears to him universal formed showing different colours in different parts of his with a thousand eyes a hundred heads and a thousand feet uttering the sacred syllable om the many an and bearing various objects connected with the of sacrifice he tells that and had been unable to see him and that no one could behold him but a of one god such as he n was he then desires n to ask a boon but n replied that the vision which he had obtained was a sufficient boon the deity then says he may go that his continued presence might disturb the devout of the white men who are now perfect and were formerly introduction xxv of one god and who being free from passion and darkness and will enter into or be absorbed in him verse hia address is continued down to verse and goes after being told in verse that not even had obtained a vision of the deity as he had had another passage which has been as bearing upon the question under discussion is the following in the xii asks without there being in the immediate so far as i can see anything to occasion the question whether he had ever seen or heard of a dead person being raised to life in reply him a story of a conversation between a and a a s son had died and was taken to the by his relations who were hesitating to leave him there when they were addressed by a which tells them to go as no dead person had ever been restored to life the friends were then about to leave the body and depart when they were stopped by a who charged them with want of affection they accordingly remained the replies and the and then the former says verse that he had lived a thousand years and never seen a dead person live again the in answer verses ff that it was reported that after a r ma had restored a s son to life t and that the son of the compare verse and men devoted to me into me are freed in verse it is said i am called the life in the life is never think to the life hu been by me a passage in which a of dr might see a reflection of christianity see st s gospel l and xi the life or die individual soul is a term which occurs in indian philosophy f see the sections a s on had died young hia death was ascribed by to the of a to perform ff and finds the in the act and him ff ff the gods the deed and on being to restore the a boy to life say that he had recovered his life a soon at the had been killed h xxvi introduction royal had been raised to life again by his righteous father and he adds that perhaps some saint or sage or god may take pity on them also the of the two opposite views are still when the god arrives ff sent by his wife his eyes with tears of compassion and on their the boy to life for a hundred years on the first of these passages regarding j professor i note the conjecture that went by sea to or asia minor at the period when early christianity flourished and that on their return home they transferred the doctrine and certain legends connected with it to their own sage or hero son of the divine who by his name reminded them of christ the son of the divine virgin and who had perhaps been previously worshipped as a god however for the christian doctrines the philosophical principles of the and schools as the latter may on the other hand have influenced the formation of the in a note to page of the same volume professor to a note of the late professor h h in his sketch of the religious of the see his collected works vol p f in which we read it is said appeared in the beginning of the age as for the purpose of the he resided on the mountains and taught the he had four chief one also termed j and the others j va v l and the four primitive teachers may be imaginary but it is a curious circumstance that the word should be the leading member of each and that in the person of and his first it should stand alone as l the white however is always painted white and the names may be contrived accordingly but we are still at a loss to understand why the god himself should have a european complexion on this remarks are we to suppose here a the word in is	28
added by the editor dr b rest introduction christian mission that its doctrines should be clothed b its indian in a and that the of christianity alone should remain is natural professor then proceeds to refer thus to the second passage above quoted in the xii the case of a white king who because he was devoted to had restored his son to life is referred to in proof of the possibility of such restoration a christian legend may perhaps form the basis of this story unless we should compare with it the legend of in the m xii ff to whom gave by restoration to life a new son in of a son whom he had lost the story last referred to is told in two places of the according to vii s ff king as a boon from the sage that he should have a son whose nature was such that all that issued from his body was of gold the king s wealth in consequence increased the son was however carried off and killed by robbers who hoped to get gold from his body but were disappointed the king him and is told by that he shall die as many famous kings whom he goes on to to thia subject in the second ot hia ind f where he that s number of c me to india both bj be of whose agency traces still on the bar nd also through high asia those who from this side being at to the north west of it no colonies are now to be met with there he finds the of thia partly in the fact that this tract ha been the of foreign bat especially in the circumstance that the of these christians with their home was cut off and they could receive thence no fresh spiritual force nor other while the case was different with the of he then proceeds although it is d that christian colonies should have been able to maintain in the north western part of india i have nevertheless in vol i indicated from a legend by the remembrance retained of the fact that five this meaning probably a non of five priests had at one time settled on the and there preached though the result was that the of this mission as a revelation of their own introduction have died before him at the end of his discourse which had a effect on to him his son delivering him from hell verses f who tells the story to adds that those who have gone to heaven do not desire to return to earth and that therefore the slain who are in paradise should not be lamented while the lot of the living on the contrary should be a cause of grief tlie tale is repeated in a quite different form in m ff and ff asks the and for a long lived son promises a son but not a long lived one as he says the father in making his request designed that his son should overthrow the god and when entreated to change his decision remains silent tlie king is however assured by the of the story that he himself if called upon after the boy s death would restore him to life verses a son is accordingly born to however being afraid of him and being a of s doctrine plans the young prince s death and commands his to take the form of a tiger and kill him ff this accordingly takes place when the boy was five years old and was playing in the wood attended by his nurse ff the king comes to the spot and calls to mind who appears and the boy to life ff the views of professor above referred to are discussed by professor in the second volume of his second edition ff he in the belief that some became acquainted with christianity in some country lying to the north of india and brought home some christian doctrines this he considers to be supported a by the name of the white island and the colour of its inhabitants so different from that of the indians by the to these people of the worship of an unseen god while the indians of the same period had images a learned correspondent is of opinion that no such conclusion can be drawn from this story he thinks that s bears about the same to the christians as swift s or the of does introduction of their c by the to them of faith the of which is not an ancient indian i by the value attributed to prayer which is a less important element in indian than in christian rites and by the fact that the they learned is as one only made known to the indians at a late period he holds it as the most likely supposition that was the country where the met with christian professor thinks that the proof drawn from the passage about and his four referred to by see above in favour of the supposition of the presence of christian in india rests on no firm foundation j and believes that this story owes its origin to the other passage in the m about the does not think that any influence was exercised by christian or their on the religious views of the indians because a the christians occupied a very subordinate position in india and were at a distance from the of indian science and religious life because the actually persecuted the christians and e because both the and other indians are opposed to the reception of anything to them by the x e degraded foreigner the only knowledge of christianity which the indians have yet been shown to have possessed during the first three centuries of our era is confined to the meagre acquaintance with it contained in the narrative	28
of the to which reference has been made does not consider that the doctrines arose from an acquaintance with christianity but thinks that the of the story about the white island employed this see however the reference mode above p to the occurrence in the of the of frequent to faith in tbe id the ii it ib said whatever is done with knowledge with faith with is in the a it ia said i they have no faith in that man a who without the exercise of faith and in the xiv s s bad iii on what ore on faith for when a man faith he so it ii on faith that are on what ia faith on the heart for it ia through hia that a mail see below p ff of this volume xxx introduction name to intimate what he had heard about the journey of some to a christian country and the doctrines there but does not correctly represent the religious and philosophical of the p to them which are not theirs this he proceeds has been perceived by the latest of the who found it necessary to add a true account of their doctrines this has been done by the introduction of who is said to have gone to the after and and to have received from himself the doctrine is further opposed to the supposition see s l that the indian resulted from an acquaintance with christianity for a the did not a single god but as the highest to whom the others were the had already a highest god in and the of the system had a single highest god in their l making a created being the indian tendency to was based he considers on the character of the which involved an exclusive adoration either of or further does not consider it to hold that the ideas of the regarding prayer and faith were at all influenced by any acquaintance with christianity he is further of opinion that a belief in the of existed three centuries before the christian era an opinion which he on what relates of the indian and thinks that there is no ground for admitting that in the early ages of christianity any christian legends were transferred and applied to professor in a note in the second vol of his ind ff replies to s argument derived from the account given by regarding the indian that in the age of that greek author the indians already possessed the conception of of the deity he considers that is wrong in supposing that had in view in his account of the indian and thinks rather that the mentioned in the i i ff is alluded to introduction or that if not he then ma s brother is more likely to be meant as in his preface to uie vol l of dr hall s edition p xii was continues regarded at the period in question as a purely human a character which be bears in the ff the peculiarity of the system of consists considers not in the assumption by a god of an animal or a human form which is common to almost all but apart from the number and series of the essentially in the circumstance that it is out of compassion to the suffering and from anger towards sinful humanity that the god is bom as a man and leads a human life admitting even what does not believe that this conception was current among the indians before they became acquainted with christianity it was only after this period that it acquired such force as to become formed into a complete system in a paper by professor nd in the indian for january headed allusions to in s the author after the passages on which he as follows i have thus brought together seven passages from a work written in the middle of the second century before christ which show that the stories about and his worship as a god are not so recent as european scholars would make them and to these i ask the attention of those who find in christ a of and in the bible the origin of the and who believe our literature to be merely a later growth had previously referred to these passages in ff of his paper on the vol xiii finished in october but on the uncertain supposition that these go back to s time he does not consider that the application to of the word on which and to which the gives the sense of the supreme spirit means anything more than that he was regarded as a a character between his position as a introduction hero in the story and his with ind iv f in his on the festival ff to the earlier stages by which was gradually elevated to the character of the supreme deity we first he says find son of mentioned in the as receiving instruction from which made him indifferent to other knowledge he appears in the ii where he receives though not a king the present suitable to a person of the highest dignity he appears further as a the friend and adviser of the p possessed of supernatural power and wisdom how he attained this elevation as for the present inexplicable the pilgrimage of some indian to and their discovery there of the worship of christ the son of the divine virgin led to the further development of the worship of and to his exaltation to the dignity of this result was not so much considers due to direct christian influences as to independent leading to a special indian growth this question of the originality or otherwise of the has been treated at length by the in an essay of pages to his english translation of the published at in some of the contents of this introduction are as follows the	28
author the grounds alleged by l r for his opinions the proposition that the is certainly subsequent to and holds as a sort of that it is older ii vii he the of the evidence that christian existed in india before the third century a d xi xv or that a translation of the christian immediately after in line ff a divine character is distinctly ascribed to him as he is called the and of the worlds however may be an see the pages of my iv ff referred to in a previous page xix introduction into indian language had then been made ff he does not allow that the of a divine character to is an idea derived from and holds that it is as old as the of in he the passages by dr to prove that the from the bible together with some other passages not by him which exhibit a and that they do not bear out his conclusion nor does he admit that the scene in which his glory is derived from the of christ f in ff the author dr s idea that the terms and faith and devotion are borrowed from christianity in p he gives it as his opinion that it is more probable that christianity borrowed from than for details i may refer the reader to the essay itself having these opinions on the question whether the indian writers who lived shortly after the rise of christianity ever acquired any knowledge of that religion and whether their doctrines were influenced by such i may treat the question as being sub however it may be decided it becomes of the less consequence as one of the of an affirmative answer holds as we have seen above that the indians modified very much that which lie considers them to have adopted see the above made p xxvi f from his ind i j and the remarks from hia p quoted above in p but however the question of the obligations of the or of some other parts of the to christianity may be decided the decision can scarcely affect the determination of the and very different question of the originality or otherwise as far as any foreign influences are concerned of the great bulk of the moral and religious sentiments embraced in my collection these sentiments and observations are the natural expression of the and experiences of universal humanity j and the higher and nobler portion of them cannot be regarded as peculiar to introduction christianity the of this view is placed beyond a doubt by the which i have from classical writers it is my impression however that the sentiments of humanity mercy forgiveness and are more natural to the indian than to the greek and roman authors unless perhaps in the case of those of the latter who were influenced by philosophical speculation this tenderness of indian sentiment may possibly have been in part derived from which however itself was of purely indian growth it is also to be remarked that even supposing the comparatively late date of the and any other parts of the many other portions of that great work from which so large a proportion of the collected in the following pages are derived may be older and such as from the age in which they were composed could not have undergone any influence from christianity what then are we to say as to the date of the this cannot at present if it can ever be determined with any certainty the great poem is no doubt in its present form made up of materials from very different periods is of opinion d edition i f that with the exception of pure which have no real connection with the substance of the work we have the ancient story of the before us in its essential elements as it existed in the pre period t e several centuries before christ the subsequent additions he considers to have reference chiefly to the exclusive worship of and the of as an of that divinity p in the article in chambers s which is one of the furnished to that work by the late p the following remarks occur that this huge composition was not the work of one single individual but a production of successive ages clearly results from the of its contents from the difference of style which its various parts and even from the which disturb its harmony the question is also treated by professor in his introduction of ancient literature ff in ff he tells us that the name of the in some of the is mentioned in the of a ana whom in p he places about the year b c and that his age would therefore if we can rely on our furnish a limit below which the first attempt at a collection of a or ought not to be placed but he adds there is no hope that we shall ever succeed by critical in restoring the to that primitive form and shape in which it may have existed before or at the time of a much has indeed been done by professor who in his indian has pointed out marks by which the modern parts of the can be distinguished from the more ancient in p he in the form in which we now the it shows clear traces that the poets who collected and finished it breathed an intellectual and religious atmosphere very from that in which the heroes of the poem moved the character of the story has throughout been changed and almost by the tendencies of the latest who were clearly up in the strict school of the laws of id a paper published in the th of the journal of the branch of the royal society k g the question regarding the age of the and his investigation by saying p i have thus briefly the principal to	28
the existence of the from the time of and a from about the th century ac to the time of t e the th century after christ he had previously said in p of course i do not assert that the poem existed in s time in exactly the same form as we have it now there can be no question that several additions have been subsequently made and it has undergone a good deal of but the main story as we now have it leaving the out of consideration was current long before s time the remarks just quoted afford us but little of the special introduction aid which we require in judging of the age of many of the different parts of the until the poem shall have been subjected to a much closer examination than it has yet received and of which has set the example it must remain uncertain in regard to many portions of its contents to which of the two classes of ancient or modem or to what stage within either they should be assigned i may perhaps hazard the opinion that such passages as that containing the long collection of uttered by in the book as interrupting the narrative if not for other reasons are unlikely to have formed a part of the original work and from their contents the same is probably true of large portions at least of the th and th books the which i have quoted from this great poem are as remarked in the quotation given above from professor s article far from being all in harmony with each other in a work of such great extent no doubt by a series of successive additions from the pens of writers of very different dates a of sentiment was not always to be expected but development in various directions was a natural result perhaps the most distinctly marked are those which relate to the light in which the pretensions of the are regarded in some passages which i have translated in the following pages these pretensions are stated in their most exaggerated form whilst in other the value of birth is as distinctly and moral and religious goodness alone is esteemed as possessing any value this alteration in sentiment is ascribed to the influence of by professor who considers that other principles of the later also were derived from the same source and even writers may have regarded the pretensions differently again the in m l ff and xii ff of which one specimen is see p of the d volume of his work on the this volume bears the title of die und introduction given in no and in p are opposed to the spirit of the better of the poem and are even as observed in p by the supposed or more probably by a subsequent there is a class of men whose ideas are expressed in these verses while they are rejected by men of higher moral feelings fair dealing with enemies is expressly in a x ff and xii ff further we find in the different passages which i have very different sentiments regarding women it is needles to say that this should be no matter of surprise and is easily to be for by the differences in the characters of women and in the experiences of their or i must confess however that my own of the has been very and as above observed much light yet remains to be thrown upon its and by a and more careful study of its contents so much however seems to be already clear that however many of the sentiments and ideas which occur in it may be due to influences wliich can and naturally have acted upon the to its contents there is no reason for to the supposition that christian doctrines may modified any considerable number of its ideas the other works from which i have quoted except the the the c and the b from which some passages have been taken are of much more modem date but the substance of many of the which occur in them is to be found in the older works and the fact that so many sentiments of the latter should have been repeated in the more modem books may afford some proof that they are congenial and natural to the indian mind as this question whether the ideas and doctrines of the indian poem are derived from or have been influenced by the new or the old testament is one of great interest and importance i give below a translation of the latter part of an article by professor of on dr s book which appeared in the for th introduction october followed by some remarks with which professor dr and m have favoured me on the subject of the dependence or independence of indian writers on christian or other foreign sources for any of their ideas professor says we have not as yet spoken of the object which the book before us has properly in view this is nothing less than to show that all the nobler thoughts in the are derived from christianity or from the revelation it is impossible here to examine dr s process of proof since it is based upon a large number of particular passages according to the judgment of the author of this notice however the proof has not yet been that in the we have a piece of christianity translated into the form of indian to refer to at least some general points of view dr s failure to make use of indian has had first of all for its result that he could not always apprehend the indian thoughts in an indian spirit the immediate introduction of the bible into the explanation of the is therefore at least premature besides the particular passages themselves are with too great confidence by dr as the	28
rest of the world the and the religion of are not so from one another that here and there should not be expected to be found between the line of the i tea like com a mortal like com he is produced again sounds as if from the new testament but is not therefore borrowed m writes to me as follows i am entirely of your opinion in r to the which you make as to the sentiments allied to be borrowed which from the the same had been indicated in a general way long before bim in collecting these passages and them with the which are asserted to be the appears to me rather to have succeeded in proving the contrary of this the book is indian and indian the declaration of those who are devoted to me are in me and i in them is a of the introduction doctrine in a form adapted to the of practical religion there would perhaps rather be reason for inquiring what is the sense which the corresponding terms bear in the and of them have not been wanting in any case they have a meaning quite different from that which they bear in the indian poem and in order to find them again on christian ground invested with a meaning akin to that of the we shall have to descend to the of the middle ages ai d to what is nearer to us the of by all of whom as by the indian poet the character or the non existence of the individual being and the exclusive essential reality of the absolute is maintained for them also whatever really exists in man is god all the rest is illusion or as they say the same image as the indians a mere sport of the divinity which is one in many and in many always the same and the other who preached and wrote on the banks of the in the century ask themselves how can man love god and they answer why does the burning coal which you place on your hand bum you because this coal is in substance the same as your hand in the same way god burns you and acts by love within you because in substance he is identical with you because he is in you and you in him as regards the passages see above p i think that we are not to look in them for too much precision the case does not signify merely m but also near to for we are yours you are ours thou art with us thou art for us thou art near us as a coat of mail as a ram m that those who are interested in the striking in doctrine between the doctrines of the and those of the christian of the middle ages will find an account of the latter in the of charles professor of at entitled sur le du si in the de v de france de v des et t ii introduction part c we have not yet got the idea of pure ab regards i i ee with you that the essence of the image is rather end than way it is sufficient to observe this is associated with e g in the iii or is simply replaced by the latter for instance in the l p s edition aa k sh sa i make a further quotation on the same subject from s work indian wisdom c f note dr the views of professor and others concerning the influence of christianity on the legends of thinks that many of the sentiments of the have been directly rowed from the new testament copies of which he thinks found their way into india about the third century when he believes the poem to have been written ue seems however to forget that fragments of truth are to be found in all religious systems however false and that the bible though a true revelation is still in regard to the human mind through which the thoughts are a thoroughly oriental book cast in an oriental mould and full of oriental ideas and expressions some of his seem mere of language which might occur quite naturally and in other cases where he draws attention to of ideas as for example the division of the sphere of self into thought word and deed in chap xviii c and of good works into prayer and how could these be borrowed from christianity when they are also found in which few will place later than the fifth century b c t nevertheless something may be said for dr s theory some further remarks are made on the same subject in s which are adverse to that theory in k j ta that tha of tile is supposed to have lived in india daring the or second century of our en and in a note ha some consider that he lived aa late aa the third and place him later bnt with these i cannot agree introduction it is perhaps but just that iu presenting a collection of some of the best sentiments which are to be found in writers i should to the fact which however is already well known that the moral and religious ideas of the indians are not all of the same noble and elevated character but offer a mixture of good and bad of pure and many good things and many bad mingled the itself has in two of its books identical in j of sometimes one of which has been translated in and no some further specimens of the same kind may be found in the to the p ff and are not even the whether sacred or profane of all countries more or less by something to the moral sense j m july from writers i ot of the z	28
the happy who has learned to know the self soul from pure ever young secure from all the change that other natures show whose full perfection no defect whom pure essential good for ever that man alone no death with tranquil joy his vital breath ii he great spirit m no hands has he nor feet nor eyes nor ears and yet he and moves and sees and hears he all things knows himself unknown of all him men the great spirit call iii to the ot td god of gods thou art to me a father mother knowledge riches find in thee all good thy being a e b to i s x ff to thee creator first to thee next last be glory though but one thou hast in act revealed as three as water pure from heaven but soon with other objects and various hues and gains so moved by goodness passion gloom dost thou three several states assume while yet thine essence pure remains though one thou different forms hast sought thy changes are compared to those which crystal with colours into contact brought thou the worlds dost though no ambition fires tis thou who all desires victor thee we greet see the prose translation of no iv in the from writers a veil which sense may never of all which sense the source and cause thee saints alone may comprehend thou every heart within all the points of space without affection full of grace pure from sin though knowing all unknown self sprung and yet of all the source lord of boundless force though one in each thing shown with minds by long restraint subdued saints fixing all their thoughts on thee thy form within them see and gain the highest good who lord thy real nature knows art thou and yet on earth east shown in many a birth and free from passion slain thy foes thy glory in creation shown though seen our reason s grasp who then thine essence which thought and scripture teach alone by thee was to gain no object more to seek thy birth and all thy wondrous deeds on earth have only sprung from love to men with this poor hymn though ill content we cease what stays our faltering tongue we have not half thy glories sung but all our power to sing is spent v mb td the it s speaks beholding noble men men enjoying good thy righteous self by woe pursued thy wicked foe by fortune i charge the lord of all the strong the partial lord with doing wrong his dark mysterious sovereign will to men their several lots he some with wealth and ease some to every form of ill as limbs the touch obey of him whose fingers hold the strings so god the secret springs which all the deeds of creatures sway in vain those birds which hold would seek to fly so man a fast ever lives in all he does or thinks by god controlled as trees from river banks are and swept away when rains have swelled the streams so men by time impelled to action helpless on are driven writers god does not show for all mankind a parent s love and wise concern but like one stem whose caprice and passion blind t i ve listened loving to thee i ve marked thy charming kind discourse thy phrases turned with grace and force but know thou i never act to earn reward i do what i am bound to do indifferent whether fruit my duty i alone regard of all the men who care profess for virtue love of that to speak the r are those who seek to make a gain of who thus to every lofty sense of duty dead om each good act its full return would fain extract he every love duty thus for duty s sake not careful what return it brings yet doubt not bliss from virtue springs while woe shall overtake by ships the perilous sea is crossed so men on virtue s stable bark pass o er this ocean dark and reach the blessed heavenly coast if holy actions bore no fruits if self received no fitting then men would lead the life of brutes who then would knowledge toil to gain or after noble aims o er all the earth delusion dire and darkness deep and black would reign but tis not so for saints of old well knew that every righteous deed from god its ample they therefore strove pure lives to lead as ancient sacred books have told the gods for such their sovereign will have veiled from our too curious ken the laws by which the deeds of men are with good and ill no common mortal the wondrous power mysterious skill with which these lords of all fulfil their high designs their hidden ends these secret things those saints alone whose life austere for them has earned an insight clear to which all mysteries open lie so let thy doubts like flee abandon and let not discontent and grief disturb thy soul s serenity from writers but god aright to know that highest lord of all whose grace on those who love him here will future bliss bestow how could i god the lord of all or dare his acts although i weakly thus complain nor would i virtue call i idly talk my better mind is overcome by deep distress which long shall yet my heart so judge me rightly thou art kind vi ht v f the lord all creatures fortunes rules none weak or strong his might he makes the young and simple wise the wise and d he turns to fools vn to the ill poor mortals try their wilful sins from view to screen but though by human eyes unseen the	28
gods their guilty deeds viii secret m not viii iv i none sees me so when bent on sin the fool madly bold for gods his evil deeds behold the soul too sees the man within ix ht the v their teacher s words correct the wise and rulers stem the bad the judge who dwells mid gloom the secret sinner s doom x iu foil to v f when men gotten gains employ rents to hide each ancient rent remains while new ones on every side xi he is ot xii whence springs the god whom mortals fear the god with awful form severe from sin destroying springs on this our world who ruin brings from writers he is that self who dwells within in men the source and seat of sin which both in woe the good as well as all the guilty xii it q i to those v ii f the gods no club like to guard the man they to shield on those to whom they grace will show they understanding sound bestow but rob of sense and insight all of whom their wrath the fall these wretched men their minds see all they see distorted changed for good to them as evil and folly wisdom s form xiii at first sight v that loss from which springs can ne er a real loss be deemed and that is not true gain esteemed which soon or later ruin brings xiv iii xii oft ill of good the semblance bears and good the guise of evil wears lo so loss of wealth though bringing pain to many a man is real gain while wealth to others proves a its hoped for fruits they seek in vain xv l mistake for b v real loss as gain and real gain as evil fools whom lawless passion ever rules for bliss mistake their greatest xvi man is vii when men are doomed without even like will xvii h am xiii a man until his time arrives though pierced by hundred while he whose hour of death is nigh touched only by a straw will die xviii no for life g shall eat c vi f i or shall he to thee support refuse who clothes the swan in dazzling white who robes in green the bright the decks in rainbow hues from writers xix a x with fervent hymns while i great the gracious mighty all bust god how can i for fear does he for their mother s milk prepare and will he not his ever watchful care o er all their future life s career xx m iii profane unhappy miss both present joy and future bliss faith is that sign by which the wise a man s recognise all fruitless leave with faith to holy scripture the verses of which tlie following is a free translation and the next have an interest as showing that the same conflict with which we are familiar in our own day between the and the of a supernatural revelation was hotly in india in early times n s ate ff xii while yet a human form i bore i loved profane and useless lore the in pride and took poor reason for my guide in halls where reverend scholars met to talk and questions deep debate i liked to argue plied the rules of logic called the fools oft hard with my grave in sacred wisdom s school a fool in every point the truth i missed a vain who others viewed with scornful eyes and deemed myself most learn d and wise now mark the meet of this my doubt and self conceit behold me here a bom ij who once the dared to scorn but now my hope is this perhaps when many many days from this brute form i shall escape and gain once more my human shape devoutly then with right good will shall i religious rites fulfil with liberal gifts the priests delight and my lawless senses fight will real knowledge seek and er i ought to leave undone i xxii he in xiii xii the man who on the looks as books who breaks their rules and all law down on his head must ruin draw the who in vain conceit from writers with scorn those dares to treat who shallow yet acute and smart on logic that worthless who in all ite knows h b brethren how to pose who speaks in war to conquer seeks who good and true at all they say contemptuous smiles tbe truths they urge with doubt receives and absolutely believes that man in speech bo sharp and wild is nothing better than a child nay worse the wisest men and best that as a dog for just as dogs their prey with savage and so too these noisy strive the into to of a lift of a of ihe of final than xvii the scripture says the bad begin when dead with woe to pay for sin while bliss a happier the good er they quit tbe earth but here the virtuous suffer pain the bad by vice enjoyment gain how then this doubtful case decide tell what is urged on either side did god exist kind and never speak his will in vain cost him but a word and his all the wish would find if god to men allotted woe although that woe the fruit must be of men s own actions then were he without a cause his creatures foe more cruel thus than men who ne er to others malice bear in this our state of human birth man s self and co exist as wise all insist but when this wretched life on earth shall end and all gain then shall alone remain a clever doctrine here we see i our highest good to cease to be in the second	28
paragraph ending at the top of this page the writer st that minds are competent to judge of the acts of an infinite being and d that god is indifferent to moral good and evil both of which deny as it is unnecessary to answer the reasoning in no xxv page f and the morality of no in page is low it the man within the individual conscience xxiv s ii and edition and ii and s edition the eldest son of da king of by his queen and the heir of his father consented to go into in consequence of the action of another of the wives of his father to whom the latter had once promised that her son should be his successor b ma s was very much against his father s wiu and occasioned him great grief but he felt himself obliged to permit the fulfilment of his promise on which insisted the son of who was absent from when b ma it and had no desire to his brother was sent for on his father s death but refused to be as king in his and followed into exile with the view of from writers ing him to return home however though the kingdom was offered to him by refused to accept it and declared he would abide by his father s decision see indian poetry the j b li now to persuade to disregard his father s decision the arguments which he founded on principles are very freely in the following translation of most of his discourse they represent the doctrines of the or and with those ascribed to the in the ana and to m the great in the iii s see my article on these doctrines in the journal of the royal society vol xix ff and a article on uie system of philosophy in the journal of the society of for in which a long and elaborate passage om the of setting forth the same view is translated see also s edition of mr s essays i ff gentle good brother s had thus the priest sought once more by force of lore false though kindly meant to turn the prince from his intent let do such thoughts thy conduct sway or lead thee to thy hurt astray by thinking men despised such rules are only fit for simple fools what man by any real bands to other men related stands and so tis but a fancy vain that one from others aught can gain alone each mortal sees the light alone be in night that man king himself er to others fondly and one with love his mother names another for his father claims as men who leave their village home in distant lands a while to in some strange hamlet rest one day and in the morning go their way so men s relations too their ties with parents children all they prize can only for a moment last and who would care for what is past what is thy father now to thee or thou to him thy course is free his promise now thou not heed but quit these woods and homeward speed thy has thither gone where all must go at fate s call no longer weakly play the fool the throne is thine thy people rule who now thine absence mourning burn with strong desire for thy return i pity those who self subdued in virtue sought their highest good who here by lore the bliss they might have found and who far far from gaining heaven for which they long and hard had are plunged in dark sleep a sleep deep what fools are men who waste their bread on senseless to the dead i the dead no more exist what good can ever get from food from writers if food by one when eaten here another far off or near then why should men provision make for travel with them take for why not offer pray to far away t and might not men upon the roof make others eat for their why why are simple men by books which learned men wliich scores of useless rites and swarm with false and vain such books were meant as charms to act on silly men and gifts extract to fill the of the priests those guests at to us do sacred are given perfect dropped from heaven no lore inspired no truths supplied from source men to guide have ever reached this world in vain such fancied aid they seek to gain who this expects could also dream the sky with blooming flowers might truth only then is gained when sought by power of logic force of thought for truth found alone i care and such as you my view will share this is the word for to the dead t this verse is from the x a sky flower is in indian writers an image of impossibility these twelve lines within are a largely expanded version of a verse in the see my no heaven no hell exists believe alone in what thine eyes perceive and all as non slight whose form thy sight since life is short the quest of joy should all a mortal s hours employ if scanty means the power deny his all to gratify with borrowed money let him feast till all his credit shall have ceased when thus the priest his subtle lies to vent had ceased then made this wise reply unmoved by all his thou would st that i should cast aside good faith and truth my joy and pride that i may present good secure and flee the ills i now endure thou would st persuade me not to dread the pains that wait the wicked dead thou would st that men should all despise with scorn reject as silly lies the earnest words of all who	28
teach a future life and duty preach thy words i know are kindly meant but thou hast in thine intent as wholesome words at first they sound but proved are and found a show of right they have but tried they cannot reason s test abide article in the r a s above referred to ff where the verse is numbered as these six lines in are from a line in the na from writers believe me all the good and wise that foolish wilful man despise from virtue s path aside who turns and all impatient by only men we know as pure and noble vile and low their natures we can only test as acts those natures manifest should i the sacred books despise and act as thou dost now advise would i not all the world by seeming noble pure and good while i was vicious vile and base a blot upon the royal race if virtue s garb i should virtue by my deeds deny should lead a base and vicious life with order law and right at strife how could i men astray by such a course om wisdom s way else but stem from righteous men and earn by such a course should i not miss both present joy and heavenly bliss the kings their subjects who seek should never fail the truth to speak whatever promise once tbey make though tempted they should never break the good examples rulers give direct their people how to live for common mortals watch the great and all their doings imitate a righteous king will rule by truth and temper too his acts with when truth its guiding law then sway is free from flaw both gods and holy delight in those who practise truth and right though such on earth no bliss attain the highest future good they gain good faith and truth are virtue s root from them abundant blessings shoot truth rules supreme on earth and surpassing truth can e er be thought all holy rites all acts austere the sacred books which men which duty s laws and forms disclose these books themselves on truth repose why should i then be led astray my s command to no fancied good no dazzling my sense of right shall e er obscure or tempt me under foot to tread my sacred promise to the dead as his advice despised thus no lore i preach that exists i do not teach believe me prince i only seek what suits the occasion best to speak at first i deemed it wise and kind to try to make thee change thy mind but seeing this thy settled mood i cannot longer find it good to play the but will now the old established creed but should i find it i ll turn again a soon the nine verses with which this section are from writers marked by el as but they are found in the edition in one of them v is mentioned and compared to a thief hi chorus sa hi i have not noticed any reference to in the unless there be an to him in the following half verse which is repeated in verses and in verse m understanding tliis a man will become intelligent what other mark of an intelligent man is there the of which the following lines are a free translation purport to have been addressed by to his brother when the latter was overwhelmed with grief on hearing a false rumour of the death of his wife sit is not stated to have made any reply but his answer to j b ii may be regarded as expressing the sentiments which the poet assigned to his hero as in with his whole character xxv sam vi ff ed and vi ff ed my brother dear thy life is pure thou every thy conduct all is noble just the world secure thy word can trust yet what does all this virtue boot to thee it brings no no fruit for thou art crushed by i deem that virtue is a dream our senses outward objects show and thus that such exist we know of virtue no such form i see and deem it a were virtue real then thy fell and hateful foe would sink to hell whilst thou so righteous true and good by ill be no more pursued but now when he success whilst thou art plunged in deep distress i learn by demonstration strong that wrong is right and right is wrong i see it needs no insight nice that vice is virtue virtue vice the righteous pine the wicked why vainly after virtue strive in virtue then no more confide if thou would st turn thy fortune s tide with vigour act arise arise and thine own greatness recognise xxvi lu tiu f to a iii the principles of duty lie enveloped deep in mystery on what can men their conduct found for lack all solid ground the with itself one text another no old however wise a sure supplies the only rule is ne er the beaten road the many take far xii ff ff before king s awful band to speak its lord s command is the ruler of the dead the indian from writers and bear thee to the of death whilst yet thou draw st thy vital breath my son in grave and earnest mood strive after right and before the ruler of the dead dread thy life with every root and stay and bond of tears away before the deadly tempest blows which s near approach before the regions of the sky begin to whirl before thine eye before thine ear to every sound is closed and terror around while yet thou art care for things unseen for death prepare and sunk in meditation deep the fruits of holy knowledge reap 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memories of thy life so oft with right and good at strife of acts of thoughtless folly rise to vex thy soul now thou art wise that only real treasure store which thou shalt keep for before decay thy body wears and with it strength and beauty bears those noblest treasures in haste which neither time nor chance can waste before disease stem thy dire death brings near whose force feeble frame shall id rites austere thy spend before the hideous wolves which dwell in mortals bodies and fell thy life on every side on virtue s pathway onward make haste before the fatal gloom round thy lone road begins to loom before thine eye the golden trees above the mountain s summit sees before from wisdom s way by evil men thou rt led astray by foes that look like friends with seek the highest ends with ceaseless care that wealth which neither thieves can by nor greedy snatch away which even in death shall with thee stay the treasures which thou thus dost gain for ever shall thine own remain shalt thou enjoy the acquired by thine own righteous deeds every vulgar care for yonder nobler life prepare to earth s bid adieu and fix on higher bliss thy view the road which thou dost with foes with hideous forms guard then thy works as thou dost go against the of every foe when men with fear and heart from hence to worlds unknown depart no band of dear or friends with loving care their path of what avail are stores of jewels silver gems and gold when as the body s powers decay the states that to see golden trees is a sign of approaching death t compare vi if xii from writers the living spirit away not all s wealth could a single hour of bliss od high or those dire future pains which justice claims for ill desert when mortals leave behind them here their wealth their friends their dear have thej no comrades on the road which leads to s dread abode ten all the deeds that men have done in light of day before the sun f or veiled beneath the gloom of night the good the bad the wrong the right these though forgotten and travel silent iu their rear and when their journey at an end the dead before king bend and from his lips the doom await which settles all their future fate what witness then can rise to speak the truth without disguise and all those deeds and thoughts reveal which living men would fain conceal as well as those good acts to tell on which fond memory loves to dwell the conscious soul the past which knows itself that past can best disclose and all the secrets bring to light which once were closely wrapped in night men living ever here shall to yonder higher sphere and clothed in bodies bright and pure shall gain the their deeds the god of wealth t samuel xii ke viii and iv ff our virtue is the only friend that follows us in death all other ties and end with our departing breath nor father mother wife nor son beside us then can stay nor virtue is the one companion of our way alone each creature sees the light alone the world he leaves alone of actions wrong or right the receives like log or beneath the sod their lifeless laid his friends turn round and quit the ground but virtue the dead be then a of virtue stored to help in day of doom by virtue sped we cross the dread gloom i life it x th m a james iv peter v xii ff the body is it not like foam the tossing wave an instant in it the spirit bird like resting soon flies to seek another home in this thy frail abode so dear how thou slumber free from fear dost thou not wake up when all from writers thy watchful enemies ever seek to strike thee there where thou art weak to bring about thy longed for fall t thy days are numbered all thy years roll on thy powers decay why thou vainly then delay and not arise and haste away to some dwelling place xxx s in tht xi ff ff by various passions men profound self knowledge fail to gain some yield to pride of birth and scorn all those in stations bom by wealth elated some look down on mortals cursed by fortune s frown while others trained in learning s schools the and call them fools all quickly other s faults discern their own to check they never but soon a time arrives when all the wise the foolish great and small the rich the poor the high the low the proud the humble hence must go within the lone their pomp their rags they leave behind soon soon their lifeless frames a prey become to sure and sad decay when forms once fair of flesh are and alone are left say then of all the bones around that the sad ground what eye has power to those of the rich the great the wise when all by death s impartial blow shall soon lie low oh why should now the proud the strong the weak the lowly seek to wrong er before the eyes of men or when removed beyond their ken will heed this warning kind though stern the highest future good shall earn toe nothing into it ig certain toe n thing ut ist to vi xii f wealth either leaves a man king or else a man his wealth must leave what sage for that event will grieve which time at length must surely bring the e io a xii ff ff ff son since soon the days of mortals end how	28
ought the wise their lives to spend what course should i to duty true my from youth to age pursue father begin thy course with study store the mind with holy lore t that stage completed seek a wife rf and gain the fruit of wedded life this dialogue is referred to in p f of s lectures from writers a race of sons by rites to seal thou art gone thy spirit s then light the sacred fires and bring the gods a fitting offering when age draws nigh the world thy home the forest make and there a calm sage a war against thy passions that from every earthly stain thou may st supreme perfection gain son and art thou then my father wise when thou dost such a life advise t what wise or thoughtful man delights in formal studies empty rites should such pursuits and thoughts engage a mortal more than half his age the world is ever vexed distressed the noiseless robbers never rest father tell how the world is vexed distressed what noiseless robbers never rest what means thy dark alarming speech in words thy meaning teach son the world is vexed by death decay the frames of mortals wears away dost thou not note the flight of those still robbers day and night literally when the ones ever the explains as the nights which are in carrying off life with stealthy tread which hurrying past steal all our lives away at last when well i know how death this world of woe and never rests how can i still in thoughtless mood confide in future earthly good since life with every night that goes still shorter and yet shorter grows must not the wise perceive how vain are all their days that yet remain we whom life s narrow bounds confine like fish in shallow water pine while men on other thoughts are bent like those on gathering flowers intent as by wolves are snatched away they fall to death a sudden prey before they yet the good have gained for which they every nerve had strained no moment lose in serious mood begin at once to practise good to morrow s task to day conclude the evening s work complete at noon no duty can be done too soon who knows whom death may seize to night and who shall see the morning light and death will never stop to ask if thou hast done or not thy task while yet a youth from folly cease through virtue seek for calm and peace so shalt thou here attain renown and future bliss thy lot shall crown death the futile dreams of men who plunged in various schemes compare ix and xii from writers are thinking this or that is done this still to do that just begun ab torrents the ranks of stately trees that crown their banks and sweep them downwards to the death tears ham earth those vain while some are all on traffic bent and some on household intent are fighting hard with pressing need and ling wives and to feed or with some other ills of life are an incessant strife death these hard toiling men before they yet have the fruits of all their labour all their thought of all the battles they have fought death no class no rank nor age he carries off the fool the sage the the saint the young the old the weak the strong the faint the bold as soon aa men are bom decay and death begin to haunt their way how can st thou thoughtless careless rest when endless woes thy life when pains and pangs thy strength thy frame to dissolution doom the busy haunts of men for there has death his favourite den in lonely forests seek thy home for there the gods delight to fast bound by old attachment s spell men love amid their kin to dwell this bond the sage asunder tears the fool to it never cares this ia found in xii thou dost advise that i should please with sacrifice the such rites i disregard as vain through these can none perfection gain why the gods at cruel with flesh and blood of beasts far other sacrifices i will offer the sacrifice of calm of truth the sacrifice of peace of of life serenely purely spent of thought profound on bent who offers these may death defy and hope for immortality and then thou say st that i should wed and sons should gain to tend me dead by offering pious gifts to seal when i am gone my spirit s but i shall ask no pious zeal of sons to guard my future no child of mine shall ever boast his rites have saved his father s ghost t of mine own bliss i ll pay the price and be myself my sacrifice le as a the sacrifice i have here ventured to take the compound word ie as meaning a sacrifice of contemplation on as most suitable to the state of a sage its recognized sense is that of the sacrifice ie study of the the word having also the meaning of see professor m s lectures p t by these words in the original na offspring does not deliver me the practice of to deceased ancestors is rejected as useless from writers i thine ease be xvi i s vi ff on earth two classes live of men and one is one divine in one all noble virtues in tb other evil passions reign from malice free averse to strife mild humble calm sincere kind holding other creatures dear the one are pure in heart and life the others differ far from these haughty vain harsh cruel causing others pain they only care themselves to please such men enjoyment only prize and so to desire by fraud and force they	28
so learning virtue riches all by constant small grow lu ambition ot v how can the man who ease the praise of knowledge ever earn all those the path of toil must choose of ceaseless toil who care to learn who knowledge seeks must ease refuse who ease prefers must knowledge lose n b a bt bet with knowledge say what other wealth can which neither thieves by can take nor make their prey which lavish d never away from writers a of books to be got xv the list of books is long arise to bar the student s progress life is brief whatever then in books is best and chief the essence that the wise of edition ii xi xii ff m ff in end all high towering piles at length must fall in parting every meeting ends to death all life of creatures the early fall to earth is sure of on trees that hang mature of mortals here behold a type they too for death when ripe as houses fall when long decay has worn the posts which formed their stay so sink men s frames when e s course has their vital force the which once have passed away and mingled with the ray return no more as streams which with ocean there for ever end revolving ceaseless night and day the lives of mortals wear away ab summer s beams dry up the ever streams in when men at home abide death too by their side when forth they issue day by day death walks companion of their way death with them goes when far they death with them stays death brings them home men hail the rising sun with glee they love his setting glow to see but fail to mark that every day in fragments bears their life away all nature s face delight to view as changing seasons come anew few see how each revolving year swiftly man s career as logs that on the ocean float by chance are into contact brought but tossed about by wind and tide together cannot long abide so wives sons riches all what er our own we fondly call obtained possessed enjoyed to day to morrow all are snatched away as standing on the road a man who sees a passing which slowly winds across the plain cries i will follow in your train so men the beaten path must tread on which their of have led since none can nature s course why o er thy doom in sorrow brood lu of xii f ff how strange to all her course who mark must fortune s ways appear how dark from writers for those she seems to favour most by fatal ills are crossed the man who strongest seems to be is vexed by some infirmity oil rich men pine om lack of health and gain scant good from all their wealth a prosperous youth whose hopeful mood long years of coming good to sudden early death a prey from all his joys is torn away while oft a poor man frail and worn lives out a hundred years forlorn the poor man s wife son after son brings forth although he asks for none the rich man vainly seeks an heir no sons are granted to his prayer the who other men can cure himself must sharp disease endure his skill his learning avail his and fall to ease his frame by pain oppressed or death s approach arrest and men whom study deep and long has taught the rules of right and wrong by women by of vice are often found the slaves no prayers no rites no no can save the man whom death disease and death like wolves none strong or weak their power not even the king whose sway extends supreme to earth s remotest ends the original may mean that the poor man does not wish either for so many or for any sons iii xii ff men self controlled acute and wise oft fail their aims to realize in vain they plan in vain they strive their schemes are they never while others worthless base or weak gain often all the good they seek a man the s part who plays lives on in ease through all his days one fortune s gifts commands although he sits and folds his hands another every nerve who strains gains no return for all his pains a man who offspring the gods and humbly sons at length in answer to his prayers his the longed for children bears but ah they prove a wicked race who on their parents bring disgrace t ot and hark here the sound of so sweet and there the voice of wailing loud here scholars grave in meet there the crowd compare ix i returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong neither yet bread to the wise nor yet riches to men of understanding nor yet favour to men of skill but time and chance to them all from writers here maidens of glee there tottering withered we see such light such shade i cannot tell if here we live in heaven or hell bo not to i i t xii f friends cannot always bring us bliss nor foes suffice to bring us ill wealth is not always won by skill and rich men oft enjoyment miss v h compare xiii the clever do not always wealth command nor stupid fools for lack of fortune pine the wise the course of things divine no other men the secret understand a relish to v the poor man fare than e er his neighbours taste for hunger his food a zest while plenty the expressions in this line are stronger than the or see prose translation in the iv how many kings their	28
little day of power gone by have passed away while yet the stable earth and all the projects vain of men who deemed that she was theirs the destined portion of their with bright colours gay she seems to smile from age to age and mock the kings who fierce wars for her for sway though doomed she cries to disappear so soon like foam that the wave vast schemes they cherish madly brave nor see that death is lurking near and brothers sons and whom selfish love of empire fires the bands of nature in bloody strife for me contend how can princes well aware how all their fathers one by one have left me here behind and gone for my possession greatly care v king strode across the world and all his foes to earth he hurled beneath his chariot wheels a prey for dogs and crushed they lay from writers snatched by time s blast he from hence away has past like down the n ng flames he too met the common doom and once so great who ruled o er all the supreme ib but a shadow now a theme on which those lords of men whose empire s of the regions all by death s destroying frown consumed are gone no ashes e en are seen i once was world renowned what forms his now a tale who hearing this if wise can fail this life to scorn so frail so transient worthless found of au the long and bright array of kings whose names tradition shows have any ever lived who knows and now where are they none can say path of i and xii xii that man with union wins the highest good by sought who ne er in deed or word or thought any living creature sins g t v the man who every sin whose breast with love of goodness he nature s essence knows and all the changing forms she takes lu at in to xii as sinful passion s fires grow cold men ever deeper knowledge gain until at length when free from stain they in themselves the soul behold the ot the it iii xii ff ff ff xiv ff let men all worldly and sunk in contemplation dwell on th inmost deepest truth of things from which the spirit s freedom springs composed and calm feel no longer outward woe and within themselves enclosed they rest and self live most their state placid sleep mid men who troubled keep tis as when winds by night repose a lamp s clear flame from writers and thus as onward roll tbe saint with meagre fore content on deep bent within the soul now see in this most wholesome lore the deep core on no tradition old it rests its truth at itself whatever precious gems you find in sacred tales are here extracted here you taste the thousand verses yield jl the the night approaches now hold the lamp of holy knowledge bright with ever slowly light to guide thee till the gloom is past compare though of a different character the phenomenon described by professor des p note as quoted in the in subsequent verses t systems founded on reasoning and ignorance of the are condemned we seem to have in the passage before us a recognition of the self power of certain doctrines of any revealed authority in the pieces preceding entitled an indian free s fate and the indian in ancient times strict is required tions j a of bi m also as having nothing and yet possessing all things how vast my wealth what joy i taste who nothing own and desire were this fair city wrapped in fire the flame no goods of mine would waste a purer sweeter bliss he knows whom desire no more than springs from earth s exciting joys or even than paradise s x by knowledge mortals thither where all desires have passed away penance cannot there convey the man who this holy lore t not ot tht b let no one deem the wise are dead who ve oflf this mortal the wise whose lives were pure from soil who never fell by lust from writers st m ta xii aa men who climb a hill behold the plain beneath them all and thence with searching eye survey the crowds that pass along the way so those on wisdom s mount who stand a lofty ground command they thence can the world below in error ain and woe can mark how mortals vainly grieve the true reject the false receive the good the bad embrace the substance flee and shadows chase but none who have not gained that height can good and ill discern aright he of the doctrine of into ii f and iv ff two wives as indian rules allowed called pious lord this passage has some resemblance to ii f est undo etc but nothing is more welcome than to hold the lofty and serene positions well fortified by the learning of the wise from which yon may look down upon others and see them wandering abroad and going astray in their search for the path of ufe etc they dwelt in peace and good accord with varying powers and tastes endowed studied grave and wise the depths of sacred lore to sound in fair were found such gifts as women mostly prize now longed to gain a higher stage of life and wander far from home and wife domestic ties vain he thus addressed his elder bride i now go forth alone to so let me e er i quit my home between you twain my goods divide she asked him then that thoughtful if earth with boundless treasures filled were mine should then my fears be that soon will claim my life he said thou such treasures won thy	28
lot would but be that of those round whom her fortune throws whose life with pleasure the grasp of death thou not what profits wealth cried if i must die and leave it soon immortal life that envied boon to gain if thou guide me guide the indian from then said though dear to me my thou before for these thy i love thee more now well what thou hear a woman holds her husband dear tis not her lord as such that draws her love he s only dear because in him she sees that soul appear with others too the same is true wife sons er our own we call are only dear because in all the universal soul we view er we round us see the whole system gods priests kings the vast of things is nothing else than that one a lump of salt as soon as cast into its source the sea and ne er can cease to be a part of that salt ocean vast so sprung from that great spirit men when once their earthly term is spent to him return and with him the sense of life no more retain the dark mysterious words that end thy sage discourse cried my mind oh guide me guide the soul i do not comprehend let not the knowledge i now give thee s d the soul as thou appear st to dread it may can never cease to live a dream indulging vulgar men suppose that one another sees hears knows if tis not as the many deem and if that soul is all and none but that exists and this is so whom else can that behold or know since thus but one great spirit lives there cannot be of separate being any sense to mortals left when they go hence that soul is see the only immortality thus taught his wife who wondering heard his mystic lore and left her then to come no more but lead till death a beggar s life in those he loved so well showed then the saint a husband s heart or played he cold the s part tradition fails we cannot tell i a and desiring heaven a sage of old with sacrifice the gods adored from writers to the his of gathered goods and gold his son young stood and saw the gifts his father brought to give the priests my be t his vow has not made good thou not all my ther given thou to give be calmly said one offering more must yet be made if thou would st hope to merit heaven to whom shall i be given my v his ther deemed the question once more be asked and yet again to death his ther cried in ire he rose to go to death s abode a voice addressed him from the air go seek death s house and enter there what time its lord shall be abroad three nights within his mansion stay but taste not though a guest his food and if in hospitable mood he comes and asks thee thou shalt say i in thy house three nights have passed when next he asks what did at thou eat say first thy were my meat thy cattle next thy merits last the youth th voice obeyed and dwelt three nights in death s abode when questioned by his host the god he answered as the voice had disturbed that this his youthful guest had not been entertained the god to make amends constrained the stranger humbly thus addressed i bow before thee reverend child i pray thee a boon of me my father let me living see the boy rejoined and reconciled to whom the god i grant thy prayer but ask a second boon replied may my good works the cried of bliss an endless harvest bear this too according death desired he yet one boon would choose the last when men away from earth have past then live they still the youth to solve this question dark and grave was even for gods too hard a task this boon i pray thee cease to ask fair youth said death another young replied the boon i choose bestow who can like thee the answer know no boon like this may be compared death said ask all thine heart s desire sons long lived cattle gold demand elect a wide domain of land and length of days from me require from writers or seek what earth can ne er supply the love of heavenly and all celestial joys besides but unto death forbear to the youth rejoined the force of man is frail and all excess of joys his feeble organs soon our longest life is but a span wealth cannot satisfy all zest of pleasure ie before thy face our life depends upon thy grace once more of i the best for who with youth though crowned and force if wise would to spend an endless life in vain in joy s disturbing round when thus the had though proffered by a god the of bliss and sought the pure delight of good then death who knew the soul and being s essence taught the youth the science of the highest truth through which is reached the final goal two things for men s regard contend t e good the pleasant he who the good is whilst they who choose the pleasant miss the highest end the wise between the two discern the pleasant the good embrace but fools the pleasant wildly chase to love the good they cannot learn the first take knowledge for their guide the last by ignorance are led far far the paths they tread the chasm that parts their is wide the fools who ignorance obey conceive they much have learnt and know but where	28
they go as blind men led by blind men stray with fortune s vain the men whom earthly passions fire to no aim nor dream of any future state of all the objects men can know the highest is the soul too high for common mortals to whose eyes are dazzled by outward show some men have never this lore and some whom seek to teach possess no faculty to reach this sacred doctrine s inner core o skilled and wonderful my son is he the soul who gains and knows this subtle science only tho e can teach who think the soul as one from writers s the sage whose spirit s gaze this god the soul from eyes veiled no longer on of sense derived from no source the soul from all the accidents that life holds on its everlasting course the thinks that he can the smitten fears that he is slain the thoughts of both alike are tain the soul the steel cannot cut nor nor tear nor fire nor water wet nor winds e er dry it up nor yet aught else its essence wear a man casts from him on the shelf his garments old and takes so bodies worn the soul and new unchanged itself the man who the soul to be minute yet infinitely vast he by his maker s grace at last its majesty to see it travels far and wide at rest moves everywhere although asleep say who but i the secret deep of this mysterious god has guessed the ideas in this and the preceding verse are taken from the see also xl f o by thought or many books this hidden soul is sought in vain that man alone the soul may gain on whom the soul with favour looks elected thus the sage believes his with the one supreme for ever from the dream which men and now from and freed from life and death he calmly his vital breath and in the sovereign soul is f the i f iii xii xiii ix it is perhaps not very easy to determine in what sense some of the most extravagant in the verses which i have translated are to be understood on the one hand it will be seen from one of the notes given below that the statement there referred to is regarded by the com in regard to the translation of this verse see the and the of dr and professor there quoted t the general substance of the doctrine of is here expressed not in any words of the from writers i as and and from another that the and worlds are in some regarded as dependent on the of the compare my original vol v where the god said to be stimulated by the which he and strengthened to support the earth and the sky p and where a similar effect is said to be produced by the hymns prayers and worship addressed to him p the action of the and the god on each other is thus in some measure the by his and his hymns the god and thus him to afford the help which the requires before the bow with awe esteem their every word aa law for they shall prosper all who treat the priests with filial reverence meet as pure and ms the fire which lights the funeral aa which household or holy no touch of objects base or vile can all fire so though they tasks f pursue to high esteem is due a s ff words in the al are all works by the on ix where the same verse occurs is explained as bad or mean aa it is rendered by sir w jones the says that as the verse is of an character sl it is not to be regarded as contrary to the rules of scripture some at least of which forbid a unless in cases of necessity to engage in the occupations of tjie lower for be he stolid as a a is a mighty god how much more then should those who shine by learning be pronounced divine by them whose might the world it could be into ruin hurled and others formed to take its place with guardian gods a younger race could aught the overthrow the gods themselves would feel the blow and fall from heaven left of all their best through their high grace to gods tis given in bliss serene to dwell in heaven by them cast down the demon host lies prostrate on the ocean by their curse the sweet sea waves were turned to no power could form th ethereal space or shake from its base no dam could stem the tide no might can the s pride the dam of law they the flood of evil stay which truth and right would sweep away their gold they never grudge to give a silent lovely life they live er may be their outward state they never grieve or feel the on ix understands the dependence of the worlds and the gods on the to be connected with the sacrifices offered by the latter t it is stated in xii that created the other from writers in scented silken they know no pride no vain delight if wrapped in skins or clad and with mud they are not sad not fare nor lack of food affects their calm mood and thus a life they lead from worldly ties and passions freed what their wealth this life austere their power that potent word we hear of other mortals they are guides in them all sacred lore they know the points of right no their piercing sight a heavy yoke strong they draw the social car along like oxen though rough their road they never sink beneath their load fullest knowledge and free from doubt the final goal they see the highest good they seek to	28
gain and lead on others in their train the deem a lamp whose ht can guide the gloom of night an eye through which what else were sealed to even the lies revealed of other causes he the cause the proof of proofs the law of laws the hut four words of this line are not in the original bnt have been added for the sake of the rhyme they afford as they with the two preceding characteristics ascribed to the the words proof of proofs could perhaps be better rendered of the next verses are different in their tendency ib among xiii after declaring in verses ff that should be honoured and asserting their great powers to their varieties deem not in character the same all those who bear the s name among them every sort you find in work in character in mind some dangerous dark resemble wells whose mouth luxuriant grass while others are as clear as day when shines the sun s ray some cattle some till the ground some begging the country round some fierce and wild obey no rule while some are soft as cotton wool some harmless lives lead from earthly hopes and freed while some to sordid passions slaves are thieves and and others in the s art in plays their part by lives so low by acts so base some men this highest caste disgrace this might have been otherwise rendered and others with dancers stoop to join a dancing acting troop see however the quotation given below from s theatre of the in which he his opinion that the profession of an actor was not considered in ancient india as well as the remarks which from writers which other some not better bom by virtue learning fame adorn but he who virtue s laws er merits praise to be from au su s from t from knowledge springs seek tliat lore in faith with spirit meek from s learn nor even the s this lowest order none should scorn for though from different members bom all from sprang the name of all may claim and all by impulse stirred aloud the sacred word to thee i tell the inmost core and sense of this most holy lore this world is all we see around is nothing else than he the following is a somewhat different and ring of the same lines through men i earn and never more to earth return such knowledge seek make this thy task from ask yea even from lowly learn and so shalt thou the truth discern be full of faith er believes the fruit of holy lore receives the humble none should scorn for though from members bom au alike from and so are all king from lips of all the sacred word too is ever heard of that word now learn the core and live in error sunk no more this word that deepest truth makes known that and the world are one the lack of knowledge know to be the source of mortals misery this brings them back again to earth in ever varying forms of birth seek therefore knowledge thou thou shalt find it there to no one class is truth confined it even the s mind whoever gains it high or low no change shall ever know the following remarkable words of the sage are more decided they are quoted and translated in my original i ff a te xii when framed the world of men he made it all then by no distinction marked of class they formed one mass but when in time they showed and widely varying characters those men whose natures were the same received a separate name from the following passage is written in a similar spirit the pure in all his ways who all his passions sternly the same respect can rightly claim as he who bears the s name so ruled and he well knew to to every class its due when hy acts a nature sound are both in any found he surely merits more esteem than worthless so i deem nor birth nor nor store however vast of sacred lore can make a for this if virtuous conduct fails good conduct a man a else ever can and too whose lives are pure the rank of secure nature shows no change wherever found in all its range that man a deem in whom from goodness passion gloom the dwells serene none else deserves the name i lis wm mm xii xiv know this the highest good the final rest to gain with union this the goal then freed from hard bonds the soul immortal life this end pursuing e en the lowest men with women reach that state much more shall in sacred lore who seek this good gain this is said after a statement has been made in xiv if of the means by wliich final described in v as may be obtained the same promise is made by who is also the speaker here to the same classes of persons in the ix f but it is there made dependent on their being devoted to him th words hi a standing there in place of the reading of v in the passage before us not to but to xiii no well born man respect deserves whose life from virtue s while honour is that s due lives to duty ever true of xii though poor and sad at heart let no man seek with life to part for even the state of manhood yet is something great writers with equal eye the truly wise view learned cows dogs and outcast men forlorn whom thoughtless fools as vile despise for both iu objects fixed and things which inward motive force in all the one great spirit dwells from whom this frame of nature springs of more than	28
birth iii the man of high or humble birth whose life with virtue s laws the righteous modest man is worth a hundred merely high born lords he xii the man who nature knows with all the changing growth that from her springs and all the of living things that man the gods a call ht he whose sole presence fills a place whose absence makes a void in halls where thousands throng the ample space that man the gods a call makes a a m xii iii a spirit asks what is it makes a birth deep study sacred lore or worth king answers nor study sacred lore nor birth the makes tis only worth all men a most of all should virtue guard with care and pains who virtue all but all is gone with virtue s fall the men in books who take delight all of learning s schools are nothing more than zealous fools the learn d are those who act aright more vile than one of race that deem whose learned store embraces all the lore if evil deeds his life disgrace that man deserves the s name who throws on s flame and knows his senses how to tame no better than a deem the wise in sin the slave of low degrading vice the who fain a holy man would seem from writers but rank with men of birth the ti self restrained by constant in virtue trained a twice born man ia he by worth to x xii the pious man who drinks from all base deeds with calm tender mild kind patient just in a child deserves alone the s name which no bad man can ever claim ihe f nor learning deep nor store of legends or of lore nor birth to save the priest who lives to vice a slave the man who much has read and his brain with copious learning who yet what he knows on men throws by such base arts shall surely in future worlds enduring bliss the of the plant as part of a religious um xiii f some the world around and loudly virtue s praises sound yet fail to practise what they preach nay vice by vicious living teach to honour such let no one think who gives them gifts to hell shall sink to xiii to own too ample stores of wealth a s health the man who no misfortune knows whose life in bliss unbroken flows and who by fortune long is deemed by all of such success the price must pay by vain conceit be led astray but when the filled with pride no longer others wisely guide abandoned by its then must virtue cease to govern men ii f xii f compare a should from honour shrink as he would poison dread to drink the original here has which may mean caste and rules and speaks of the conduct of the persons in question as leading to a confusion of and so is written from a point of view from writers aud love contempt as if be j a celestial though scorned the wise man sweetly sleeps though scorned he ever calmly wakes and scorned this course he calmly keeps but woe the s t al iii f ff the high men who never sin in thought or word or action they they are the true pray what virtue s in a skin he than mm in the xii g from every vicious taint though pure a s virtue cannot with theirs who ne er from trials fly but face and conquer every the not w control xii v why pray to forests wild repair there war against thy senses t dwells the self s e the wood the s cell is there of xii ff when old and grey when strength by foes when crushed in evil days from fortune s heights when downward hurled yes then let men the world but not in days of youth and health when crowned with glory with wealth those scripture which praise as best a life lone dragged sadly on in gloomy woods and dreary are in schools by fools which look like truth but proved are found to rest on no substantial ground to savage beasts it is not given by forest life to merit heaven yet this same life by led their future bliss tis said when men no pleasure feel nor pain a state of stupid gain they then have reached perfection rise to heaven so say the would be wise but should not trees if this be and gain perfection too for they are calm and feel nor pain nor pleasure woe nor they dread no want they seek no ease like self abandon then thy vain design by virtues seek to shine from see how by acts all strive their to through effort ne er perfection brings from deeds alone it springs the of tis from the soul the man within that actions all their value win no outward state er it be affects on action s quality would he not sin a sage who within a gifts no fruit er unless bestowed by a rf mi v no varied store of sacred has power to save the man in and fraud expert his lore him in his final hour as birds full their native nests desert s the triple staff long hair a garb of skins or bark a vow of silence meagre fare all signs the that mark and all the round of rites are vain unless the soul be pure from stain ci than i ff ff by weighing truth and sacrifice a thousand sacrifices truth xiii ff in one scale truth in the other lay a thousand try i doubt if all that pile so high even half as much as truth would weigh cm l ot	28
ii those noble men who falsehood dread in wealth and glory ever grow as flames with greater brightness glow with oil in ceaseless flow when fed but like to flames with water wliich faintly flickering die away so day by day decay till all their lustre soon is of to be x as far and wide the breeze sweet from blooming trees so too the grateful to distant lands of virtuous deeds fro f writers as one expert in daring a pit a sword who lays and on its edge essays the chasm to cross but soon with afraid to fall below and trembling stands upon the brink so let a man from falsehood and guard himself from future woe of the v thy virtue at any cost wealth none can trust it comes and goes the good survive misfortune s blows but virtue lost and all is lost l l ts v v i ff er would wealth abundant earn should first to practise virtue success on goodness always waits as aye the blessed mon than l wealth little satisfaction brings tlie highest bliss from virtue springs lu ta i je on tht viii no sacred lore er profound nor all the long and varied round of sacred rites can bliss procure for worthless men in heart although a man with zeal and skill should all external rites fulfil he no fruit of all his toil if sin his inner man should soil ev n he his all in who with heart no the disposition not the deed has value all on it depends ot no belief in ot faith iii f the fearful doom of all is sure who laugh at men whose lives are pure who duty s binding force deny and all virtue as a lie the man who loves to live in sin is like a huge skin with wisdom s show himself he for vain are all his proud no sin can want of faith exceed while men by faith from sin are freed from writers men throw off their sins as off their worn out skins ex nt xiv the in s schools who smile at honest men as fools who never vexed with scruples long have wealth by and wrong and then their gains with hearts to pious uses on costly sacrifices spend or ample gifts to send such can never gain the ordained for truly righteous deeds their riches sprung from poisoned roots can bear none else than deadly fruits bad men who goodness only in hope the world s esteem to gain with lavish gifts and dainty in vain delight a host of priests esteem that s loom assured er by lust of gold from virtue s path and heaps up wealth by wicked arts but those who others wants relieve by giving what they have to give the following does not sound so satisfactory but very but see the as given in the is ra xii a man of wicked life a thief of yea the very chief i reckoned good if so he bring the gods a fitting o the harvest roots a draught of water or fruits these righteous self denying men at length the bliss of heaven attain ri their xiii vi f xix with awe sincere the gods meet honour to thy show with gifts the good and so in heaven enduring treasure store thy pious acts perform apart a love for goodness scorn to and never as a means of gain parade it with self seeking art in xii it is said let no man bestow gifts hi order to gain reputation na d he most xiv rich presents though given are not so dear to righteous heaven as gifts by honest gains supplied though small which faith has to at v two men of heavenly bliss are sure the man who rules a land with mild and patient self command the man who freely gives though poor writers of xii for what should wealthy mortals live should such their gains or t not all should be enjoyed or stored those use wealth beat who freely it is xii xii tis not for gain for fame from fear that righteous men injustice and virtuous men hold virtue dear an inward voice they seem to hear which tells that duty must be done i to x man vii a noble man no needs to make to practice noble deeds but oh he struggles hard and long before he a wrong effort not the of v a man who toils with all his strength a high and righteous end to gain may fail but has not wrought in vain his merit gains its at length the apparent of the original ie modified here if not v the base intention nurse to wrong another pause and think even then if thou from sin shalt shrink thou shalt of guilt escape the curse lu in not in the ad xiii ff the real seat of virtue s in the mind and not in outward act so say the wise let therefore every man in thought devise with earnest zeal the good of all mankind nm t be a act in virtue s practice men alone must stand no friends can e er their moral share wise guides or books the rule of life declare but only men themselves their acts command xiii ff translated above no first line of verse second it is only the first which to this passage and the meaning is different though the words correspond xiii that man beloved by other lives who kindly acts and kindly gives from other men a fitting he gains for every loving deed from those who have power to help but fail to heed the s wail who treat his prayer with cold disdain these justly gain the man who kindly treats a foe	28
by stem misfortune s stroke laid low who for help in humble mood he who acts is truly good an v men who far others rise by learning wealth or royal state and yet with pride are ne er by all are justly reckoned wise of a man v no ill the thoughtful man his hungry appetite who in comfort all his household keeps who toils immensely little sleeps who not content to help his friends when asked his help to foes extends who more lives than he of dainty food who eats the best in rich attire is always and his helpless family s if ana for his he i than an st to v xi those men who ample gifts on strangers waste and leave their own to pine in want and woe of goodness only earn the empty show to poison turns the praise they taste the fools who thus to doom their kin and costly rites fulfil to merit heaven from all the acts performed and given no bliss shall find but reap the of sin xxvi i v far st vi f iii the good to others kindness show and from them no return exact the best and greatest men they know thus ever nobly love to act a that b t y f xiii f er thy acts the source must be of good or ill to other men deal thou with them in all things then as thou would st have them deal with thee from writers of a man il and f the good kind actions recollect but base injurious deeds forgot on doing good to others set they never expect he me and iii kind deeds are never thrown away on men of real goodness such are not content to give as much as they have got far more repay nay even a bestow for here the gods no measure know a iii a man should do with all his might the good his heart has once designed ne er let him wrong with but be to others ever kind of not t be on thee to smile though fortune never her happier lot with calmness bear for prudent men from they do not share but others own enjoyment ever gain the last two lines of this are may perhaps admit of an interpretation that the unfortunate may find means of by the wealth of others by themselves to their favour see however the as given in the he not equal the at xii the man who manifold hath paid a kindness on himself conferred does less than he who only stirred by generous impulse lent him aid i the lain the st vii in one short verse i here express the sum of of sacred lore is oppression sin s malignant core il not t t not to thee or in another edition hear virtue s sum expressed in one brief lay it well to heart ne er do to others what if done to thee would cause thee inward smart from writers bt them s st st v i or in another edition his action no applause who simply good with good he only justly merits praise who deeds with kind h highest at the viii h to scatter joy throughout thy whole surrounding world to still men s grief such ia the worship best and chief of god the universal soul aim of x be only does not live in vain who all the means within his reach his wealth his thought his speech t advance the of other men she at to final a xv those men alone the secret know which final brings whose hearts with pity to even the meanest living things not those a beggar s garb who wear with ashes with to the xii v xii with conquer wrath and ill with by giving lies with truth he not again ist of peter ii iii y xii meet with patience ne er to men bear harsh tones and language greet with gentle speech and accents sweet when struck return not thou the blow even gods their admiration of men who thus entreat a foe ef him xxv v to the xii xii that foe not with a frown who claims thy hospitable aid a tree refuses not its shade to him who comes to it down oi injuries a hero hates not even the foe whose deadly bow is him bent the tree with fragrant scent the axe which lays it low from writers not to be sent let none with a meet or from the door a dog an outcast kindly treat and so shalt thou be in turn a i or the good extend their loving care to men however mean or vile e en base ch dwellings share th impartial s silvery smile v small souls belongs this man to our own race or class or but larger hearted men embrace ar brothers all the human race inn ht to to bad as well as good to all a generous man compassion shows on earth no mortal lives he knows who does not oft through weakness fall has the same sense as a man of the or of no caste from the i ii and from got the wise accept with joy the pearl they prize to them the mean may knowledge teach the lofty virtue preach such men will wed nor view with scorn a lovely bride though humbly bom when sunlight fails and all is gloom a lamp can well the house bt v from s even the wise and children s good may gain as workmen skilled extract the vein of gold in rocks that lies compare see above no p their y vii as doth is tinged by any in which it long time plunged may lie so	28
else to earth might downward drop so to act i or er will others seeking light advise his task is easy here all men are wise but wi ed themselves to virtue most no more the wisdom show they seemed to have before se to art ram a vi s edition in words to carry out a plan is easy work for any man but those who vigour join with skill alone hard tasks in act is v ff i t the forest tree that stands alone though huge and strong and rooted fast unable long to brave the blast by furious is while trees that growing side by side a mass compact together form each each defy the storm nd green from age to age abide so too the man alone who stands however brave and wise but lacking aid om stout falls smitten soon by hostile hands but those sage ever like flowers in blooming pride who firmly each in each confide and each from each support derive he long threads if all alike they be and many even if thin sustain unbroken many a heavy strain of good men here an emblem see he v would deal a deadly stroke they all the common cause must aid when only smoke but blaze er in contact laid july v by woods fall beneath the hunter troop s attacks and stripped of forests tall soon sink before the s axe let therefore woods defend and woods to shelter lend i compare l xii let none a feeble foe despise if but a little fire should seize one out of many forest trees soon low the wood in ashes lies writers in n foe v when with a foe thou war ne er rest secure because he dwells afar for know the arms of such a man are long when stretched to his wrath on those him wrong same xii compare v if thou chanced to wrong a powerful foe ne er rest secure though far he dwell away his arm with sudden stroke may lay thee low am down their helpless prey counsel i g xii whilst thou dost watch thy chance with seeming care thy mortal foe upon thy shoulder bear then down to earth thy burden dash as men against the rocks an vessel ought to keep their affections a free p ms of th of the entitled the of with book iii u u of the of the two ladies who figure in the following dialogue the first is m the wife of the renowned the ally of the p princes while the second is as she is most commonly called by her as the daughter of although her pro cr name was the wife of the five princes and his brothers here we have a case of which the in accommodation to later ideas explains as apparently in accident but as pre arranged in a former birth although the custom is allowed by some of the personages who appear in the poem to have been one practised see my paper in the indian for september last and professor m s indian poetry f some indications of its at least occasional occurrence in the in ancient times are found in two passages in a paper recently communicated by me to the indian it is worthy of remark that is represented in the passage before us as seeking to bring her husband under by some of the which she to have found effectual with the p although was either at the time when this section of the was composed or somewhat later regarded as an of or of the supreme spirit and unless his was a later event or unless his higher was not supposed always to his human nature might have been supposed by his divine to be incapable of deception by the of his wife i may add that at the time when the dialogue is related to have occurred the were living in the forests in of an engagement to exile themselves from their kingdom for a certain period see s indian poetry and the passage before us may doubtless be held to prove that in ancient days the women of india were in the habit of of various kinds to gain or keep their husbands in other respects and of the dutiful though exaggerated sentiments which the second speaker expresses it may possess some interest as a picture of ancient indian manners two ladies fair of high estate long parted now again had met from writers the one herself could justly pride on being noble s bride the other ruled five princes hearts with loving sway by honest arts rejoiced each other now to see they laughed and full of glee in thought o er all the past they ranged and ancient memories when this at length bad found an end the former thus addressed her friend how is it dearest say that thou thy husbands so can st sway those princes youthful bold strong and proud and who ever watch thy looks to find wliat thoughts are passing in thy mind and ne er against thy rule rebel reveal i pray thy potent spell by what devices what thou their proud self will repress aud make them all thy power confess where lies thy strength rare avail to gun thine end declare do rites prayers to work thy will or lore or is thy grand success the fruit of any or or root what art is which fame e and full bliss s proper name see the prose introduction ii for i too seek to rule my lord thy methods tell thy help t these words when noble heard she th grief and sorrow stirred such questions vain not thee a dame esteemed so sage to be for all but heartless wives those wicked arts thou hast in view could any female merit praise for acts so shameful	28
schemes so base er a husband knows his foolish wife is one of those who their lords with and charms his soul is by dire as any one is ill at ease who in his house a serpent sees how can he lead a happy life who lives in dread of such a wife how many men whose wives thus sin who seek by their lords to win to fell diseases fall a prey grow pine away in sad and premature decay such madness could st thou dare to share for thine own loi d such ills prepare no wife has e er by or charms won back a husband to her arms now calmly hear how i proceed avoiding every deed from writers seek to win my hearts by none but open honest arts and so their hearts i rule i ne er them or nor e er on charms or depend their independent wills to bend from anger pride and passion free i serve my lords most without parade of fondness still i their wish fulfil by fitting gestures gentle speech and mien and acts my goal i reach those lords whose glance alone kill i please with all my might and skill though they are never harsh nor rude but always kind and mild and good i act as if constrained by awe and treat their slightest hint as law no other object draws my love on earth beneath or heaven above no handsome wealthy youth no god could shake my for no delight or joy i care unless my lords the pleasure share er their home they chance to leave dejected pale i fast and grieve their homeward safe return i greet with sparkling eyes and welcome meet till all their wants are well supplied i never for my own pi at meal times i without delay the food they love before them lay served up in golden fair all bright with constant care my house is clean and fairly swept well and ordered neatly kept ii as friends i own and talk with none but virtuous women bad i from all such words and acts i shrink as think loud laughter foolish i hate and constant at the gate my lords i all observe from these i could not bear to just issued from the bath and bright in attire with jewels before my lords appearing i delight their eyes to gratify whatever usage rule or whatever forms polite my husbands observed of old and they themselves in honour hold all these with never ceasing care i carry out no toil i spare compare the of ff where says of herself fi h y ra fa ic ov e ii i tv i au rt et ob di iy r i e in the first place where whether a already to women or not this very conduct is sure to bring ill in its train when one does not keep literally to her who does not keep at home giving up the desire of this i used to stay within the house and did not bring into it the clever sayings of women i e their gossip and romantic notions but having my mind a good teacher by its own instinct i was content with myself and here the way their mother who all the past exactly knows her will i follow her ad hold the dear by constant care zeal i strive to work my base women s wicked arts i by nobler means my ends are won in happier days at we entertained eight thousand priests those learn d and grave in state their food from golden ate and many other guests beside were every day with food supplied er within our household passed was known to me from first to last i knew the servants one by one and all they did or left undone my husbands of gold i knew their income all to me they left all household cares a mass of manifold af on me this all was thrown this load i bore without a groan and sacrificed my rest and ease my task to end my lords to please i rose the first by dawn s faint light retired the last to rest at night tliat is while the f were at home and in possession of their some of the preceding details also though expressed in the present tense should if the story is to be regarded as self consistent be referred to this earlier period i such are the such the whose power my husbands love to please her lord a virtuous wife should deem the object of her life to him her thoughts should ever turn with love to him her heart should burn her hope is he her refuge god and all her acts should wait his nod in vain by ease is pleasure sought by pains and toil alone tis bought strive then thy lord s esteem to win a new career of love begin er his step without the gate is heard start up and on him wait with cheerful tact his wishes meet his please with sweet his every sense with pleasure within thy home a heaven create so doing thou shalt make it clear that he to thee is very dear and then thy love perceiving he with answering love will cherish thee this course will bring thee high renown thy life with bliss crown compare the story of l in ff and see the passages in praise of women ff o her v there lived a queen of old well known to fame far sighted bold who in heard debate proceed on grave affairs of state xiii from writers who studying much and long a store possessed of rich and varied lore she dwelt with joy mid war s and loved to hear of of arms how s power	28
the proud subdued and blessed the subject multitude it chanced a foe s superior might once overcame her son in fight and all his host drove the prince in foreign lands to there stunned by fortune s crushing blow he lived and in want and woe sad he deemed it vain to seek to raise his head again his spirit seeing so depressed the mother thus her sod addressed of all thy friends the grief and of all thy foes the joy and gain no real son art thou of mine no of the line a thou never of every warrior thou the scorn whence spring st thou from what outcast race all nobler thou would st di race who can of thee with honour speak in spirit faint in act so weak thus hast no care thy fortunes to repair no longer rise awake to deeds of high why thou prone aa if the dread bolt of heaven had struck thee dead start up to high renown by deeds regain thy crown by force of will respect command blaze fiercely like a glowing brand like that only a men s contempt whoever strikes a manly blow and to lay his low has done his duty though he fail that failure let him ne er for duty a constant strife than this what other use has life thy pious acts have borne no fruit and cut is now thy welfare s root if all thy hopes of good are gone in life why should st thou linger on though hardly pressed a warrior ne er should yield to sad and weak despair though fell d to earth a man should seize with deadly grasp his s knees should drag him down with main and might and end the deadly fight the sons who earn no honoured name can bring their mothers only shame er in splendour lore stands forth all other men before he justly claims no other can the high and noble name of man he s called a man whose heart is weak who plays a woman s part compare and no above p from writers od this our sad condition think we stand on utter ruin s brink from home and country driven laid low of joy and plunged in woe and wilt thou thus lie low nor dare to strike another blow i called thee son but now i see i bore the age in thee may woman never bear again a son so base so dire a submission ne er can raise the sunk or bring them happier days fierce energetic strife alone can win thee back thy father s throne ambition only restless proud can lift a man above the crowd steel then thy heart a hero grown from haughty foes back thy own what worth has earth its wealth its joys its power its state its glittering toys the which is the is the last of the four periods into which the indian system of the duration of the existing creation the first or was the age of perfection and during those which have followed the world is conceived to have been a gradual course of to the extent of one fourth in each succeeding in the age corruption and calamity are thus regarded as their climax the word as used in the text may thus be considered as an or of ill evils what worth has even life for thee my mother if thou hast not me then urge me not to peril life in fruitless desperate strife their lot is base who once were great but now have fallen from high estate who masters once dependent now to others wills must humbly bow whom none regards and who by need constrained on others feed to such a life as now thou lead st my son no longer bow win back those days alert and brave when thou lord and not a slave when all men watched thy nod and bent before thee as a god like heavenly bliss is sway like hell their lot who must obey f the prince whose arm his rule and well his he during life renown and at length a heavenly crown yet thou faint of heart and wilt not act a hero s part but know er from love of life a from battle s strife with no fierce his tribe that soldier compare vii t this line which has nothing corresponding to it in the original is given as a to the preceding from writers yet why should i my speech i no of mine however strong can sway poor youth thy wavering mind to all bold action just do his death can stay whose life is fast away yet hear another reason why thou still in war thy chance should st try the foe who now thy throne the people s love has never known too we to rise with none to guide they watch the turn of fortune s tide but if men saw thee bent on war would flock from near and far with these combined thy plans prepare thy standard raise and war declare thy foe is mortal bears no charm to guard his life from deadly harm go i then to battle stride yet thine arms abide thy name is victor prove thy right to bear it triumph now in w thou but a child of old a thy lot foretold that after dire thou once more in pride should st rear thy brow the sage s word remembering i expect thy coming victory but what a life is this we lead starvation sunk in need his name means victorious or victory what sad i ve seen a princess bom a wedded queen once with jewels bright my husband s joy my friends delight in splendour nursed i knew no care and now but yet	28
future glory bom and now my son at length arise arise and snatch the envied now last of all my secret hear that thou no more ma et doubt or fear we yet possess to thee unknown large treasures known to me alone and many hundred friends remain good friends who ve borne misfortune s strain whom no reverse of our a could shake who common cause with us will make they surely will not leave us now when fortune comes to crown thy brow need for more my son what need so on to fight and victory speed o thou thy race s joy and pride heroic mother guide fond of coming good how thou hast roused my timid mood whilst thou strive in long discourse my languid soul to nerve with force in war of words i strove in vain o er thee the mastery to gain for thou all my and leave me stunned abashed and mute with thee to lead sustain and cheer how can i longer shrink or fear drunk with the of thy word to stirred i must with thee to show the way essay i will not see the ocean my own my dear paternal realm but lift it high above the wave yea death itself with joy will brave my cherished to save thus by his mother s stung by these her fired away the youth his weakness flung and snatched the prize her soul desired the women of na as represented by colonel in his annals and of see chapter ff maintain in more recent times the character of heroism ascribed to in his passage of the i give a few vol i p f c est k the original verse translated runs thus this earth must be supported in the water i must die plunging down into an abyss or precipice this is thus explained by the this land my paternal kingdom sinking as it were in the water must be supported by me or the sunken kingdom must be raised or i must die in the gulf called battle and not thus remain supposing the word earth to stand for the world the phrase might perhaps be understood of a effort as i have done in the lines which from writers des c est i ie a to which every would with whom the age of chivalry is not fled though ages of have passed over him he knows there is no retreat into which the report of a gallant action will not penetrate and set fair to he the objects of his search f like the ancient or the her in every from her ordinary actions he draws ttie of success and he to her name the epithet of or p nor will the annals of any afford more numerous or more sublime instances of female devotion than those of the and such would never have been recorded were not the likely to bo and followed p tlie annals of no nation on earth record a more or more instance of female loyalty than that by mother of the brothers c p says would that the gods had made me barren that i had never home sons who thus abandon the of the and refuse to their in danger p were we called upon to give a for it would be found in the queen of who the story tells clothed her enemy the who sought to marry her in garments which caused him to die in great agony and then threw herself from the of tlie fortress p the mother claims her full share in the glory of her son who at the maternal the first of chivalry and the importance of this parental instruction cannot be better illustrated than in the ever make thy mother s milk c of m i ff see ff iii l ff these lines have been partially and differently in my religious and moral sentiments rendered from writers p that dame deserves the name of wife whose husband is her breath of life who in all affairs her lord of household cares who fills his house a mother proud with children bright a merry crowd a wife is half the man in value all other friends she every earthly blessing brings and even from her springs who on him ever fondly to him her being all the men possessed of virtuous wives can lead at home religious lives they need not to the woods repair and merit seek through hardships there a happy joyful life they lead their all succeed in lonely hours companions bright these charming women give delight like fathers wise in duty tried to virtuous acts they prompt and guide er we suffer pain and grief like mothers kind they bring relief t the weary man whom toils when travelling through life s wilderness four stages in the religious life of a those of the student and are recognised by indian writers and the last are generally regarded as representing an advance in perfection in two passages however of the ff ff preference is given to the s life as more excellent than all the others and an of domestic life is as folly i have introduced this sentiment here although it is not expressed in the original of the passage translated t when pain and anguish the brow a veritable angel thou sir walter scott from writers in his a place of rest and there refreshed and when men at length this life and other forms of being take then too do faithful wives pursue their husbands all their wanderings through the wife who first her lord s approach at gates when he dies first the faithful wife to join her her life the following is another translation of part of one of the same passages i our love these sweetly speaking women gain when men are all alone companions bright in duty wise	28
to judge and guide aright kind tender mothers in distress and pain the wife is half the man his friend of pleasure virtue wealth his constant source a help and stay along his earthly course through life yea beyond its end t t although with children bright it and full of light and gladness seems a man s abode without a wife is empty its real life the makes the house of her a gloomy waste tis left that man is truly whose wife with ever sympathetic heart shares all his and woe takes part in all th events that stir his life is filled with joy when he is glad and plunged in grief when he is sad er his home he leaves his safe return with joy with gentle words his anger and all her tasks with love her husband s treasure friend and comrade to his journey s end a wife in duty her lord with gold she helps to swell his in all his hours of joy and seeks to spare him all annoy a devoted tender kind bears all her husband s wants in mind his ease his wishes meets with smiles his advent ever he knows when forced abroad to that all is safe with her at home in doubt in fear in want in grief he turns to her and finds relief when by pain by sickness worn by outrage stung by anguish torn disturbed perplexed oppressed forlorn men find their love and skill the cure for every ill the who a wife and leads a single life should leave his home and cheerless dwell in some secluded forest from writers and there should spend his days and nights in penance rites for now without a dear his house is but a desert who then would live without a wife his house s joy and light and life with her tlie poorest hut will please and want and toil he borne with ease without her spacious gilded halls possess no charm all splendour he half a man ii a man is only half a man his life is not a whole until he finds a wife his house is like a sad and still till children all its chambers till ht t fat iii thou right for all the ills of life no cure exists my fair one like a wife at a e a n ed xiii f that wife to bliss celestial whose loving care her lord delights although she all holy rites and never any god act iv men seeking knowledge long must strive and over many volumes pore but favoured women all their lore from nature s grace derive ff i have above and elsewhere quoted from this great poem passages in which the fair sex is cordially directly or indirectly the following picture though in some respects it is flattering to women as to their great cleverness and s of is otherwise far from the fair sex however need not be against this representation as the names of the indian referred to in these lines are not familiar to the english reader i have that of in those that smile a woman smiles with those that weep in tears the sad with words of comfort cheers by loving tones the hostile gains and thus firm hold on men her action well to all th occasions that can e er befall as words of truth she praises lies as falsehood truth and mistress of treats right as wrong and wrong as right all powers which old of whom such wondrous tales are told displayed the gods themselves to cheat from writers to blind and so defeat such fascinating powers we find in artful women all combined so they men deceive so well their can that few whom once these clasp can soon escape their magic grasp yet once their earlier cooled they the men they ve thus and objects seek to suit their changing passion s such well to guide and guard for men must prove a task too hard to in a iii within this house by this my spell i union peace create that none may more another hate but all in love together dwell let these the sons their obey and ne er their mother s word let this fair wife with aspect bright and words her lord delight let brothers mutual and sister sister kindly treat let each the rest with accents sweet address and all in heart be one of a king xii is e see that man alone a crown should wear who s skilled his land to rule and shield for power is hard to a load which few can bear i that king liis duty who well the poor and helpless who away the orphan s tears who gently the widow s fears who like a father joy and peace to all his people s hearts on vicious men and women the d and wise with honour crowns who well and wisely gifts on those whose merits claim reward his people rightly guides and schools on all virtue s rules who day by day the gods with meet their grace whose vigorous arm his realm and all insulting foes subjects who yet the laws of war and ne er from honour t v c ff xii f vii the king who long to rule must all his lawless passions school whoever these to sway soon sees his empire pass away while he who well himself commands can wisely govern all his lands for lust and anger men and draw from proper good but he who these two foes a world wide empire surely gains this lofty rank this envied state p this power to fix each subject s fate by base and wicked kings on men dire woe and ruin brings er would ample wealth in virtue other men in	28
check must all his senses bold when these are ever well controlled in strength the understanding grows as fire by fuel brightly but men whom lawless passions sway to swift destruction fall a prey as in wild career dash down to earth their the prince who himself to school his ministers can never rule and he his foes can ne er defeat his ministers who has not beat a monarch first himself must school then seek bis court and camp to rule must first subdue himself in fight and then march forth his foes to for who can other men subject who has not first his passions checked kind fortune on that monarch waits who first his fierce desires who rules his ministers and the rod which good from bad men who first the facts and then deliberately acts h be io er iii when men from want of knowledge sin a prince to such should mercy show for skill the right and wrong to know for simple men is hard to win jt king best ii though other treasures kings may boast of gems and gold a glittering the richest far is he the lord of men a numerous host amid impending war s though round us lofty castles rise the fort that best assault is formed by manly warriors arms c in s without a bard his deeds to sing can any prince be known to fame of old lived many a king of whom we know not even the name of horn v iii edition not such is even the bliss of heaven as that which fills the breast of men from writers to whom long absent now given their country once to again their childhood s home their place however poor or mean or base horizon i th men at home who dwell and foreign with all their store of various wonders ne er explore are within a well also the xi xiii with kindly play and harmless sport with deer the s holy presence near turns hate to love drives fear away saint the hour of his vi xii let not the long for death nor cling to this e their lords as servants wait so let him called resign his breath i ear is to be st f vii that alien man who blessings brings the wise with love parental greet but like a dire disease will treat the son from whom destruction springs thy limb although with pain off remove the taint which renders all thy body faint that thus the whole may strength regain jl ha no in hi a man in whom his kindred see one like themselves of common mould may yet by thoughtful strangers be among the great and wise in a saw gods viewed the lord of all with awe from writers ox the s in p ff in the a in prose and of the life of the great indian saint and founder of the religion which bears his it is related that a or inspired sage named who dwelt on the skirts of the mountains became informed by the occurrence of a variety of of the birth of the future as the son of king in the city of in india and went to pay his homage to the in nt i liave tried to the legend in the following verses the of some of the incidents to portions of the narrative in the second chapter of st s gospel verses ff will strike the reader i may mention that the books speak also of earlier that the word means the enlightened or the intelligent and that also bore the of and of and i the lion and the of the tribe of the to which he belonged that i have not at all exaggerated the expressions in the t which speak of as a or or his character more than was to the christian conception of a will be clear to any one who can examine the original for himself a renowned opponent of the while charging with presumption and of the rules of bis caste in assuming the functions of a religious teacher with which as belonging to the and not to the class he had no right to interfere to him these words let all the evils or sins flowing from the corruption of the age the fourth or most age of the world fall upon me hut let the world be if we m ht judge from this passage it would seem that the character of a was claimed this and the it piece arc from my c vol ii m ff by or at least ascribed to i am informed by mr r c however that in his opinion the idea of s having suffered for the sins of men is foreign to and indeed opposed to the whole spirit and tendency of the system another valued correspondent professor k b is unable to think that the sentiment ascribed to by is foreign to his system as it is thoroughly in accordance with the idea of the six p he does not understand it as any notion of but rather the enthusiastic utterance of highly strung moral sympathy and charity and would compare it with st paul s words in ix and explain each in just the same way as he thinks does he further to the existence of numerous stories in the s among which is one from the story of the son with a red hot iron wheel on his head and he says p pi m p p pa me let other on earth be freed from their sins and until the removal of their sin let this wheel turn round upon my head in either case it is only a wish and it is not pretended that it really had or ever could have any effect on other	28
men it only expresses a perfection of charity the same idea borrowed as dr from occurs in the ix ch the immortal word contained in the th verse and ascribed to the pious and benevolent king who himself endured hunger and thirst to relieve others is as follows na ham i i desire not from gk d that highest state which is attended with the eight nor do i ask to be from future i seek to live all beings and endure their pains that so they may be freed from suffering on this the thus from writers being unable in thought to tlie of others he desires himself to endure the of all i desire in the form of each sufferer living within him to undergo the sufferings of them all on s steep there lived of old a holy sage of form and bent with age to meditation deep he when great had been born the glory of the race endowed with holy grace to save the suffering world forlorn beheld strange signs which taught the wise that that time had witnessed some event sublime with universal blessing the sky with hosts of gods was thronged he heard their voices s name loud with glad and clear shouts prolonged the cause exploring far and wide the sage s vision ranged with awe within a cradle laid he saw far off the babe the pride with longing seized this child to view at hand and clasp and homage pay the sky he took his way by mi c art and swan like flew and came to king s gates and entrance go royal page and tell thy lord an ancient sage to see the king permission waits the page obeyed and joined his hands before the prince and said a sage of form and bowed with age before the gate my sovereign stands and humbly asks to see the king to whom dan cried we greet all such with joy with honour meet the holy man before us bring the saint beside the monarch stood and his blessing thine be health with length of life and might and wealth and ever seek thy people s good with all due forms and meet respect the king received the holy man and made him sit and then began great sage i do not recollect that i thy venerable face have ever seen before allow me then to ask what brings thee now from thy far distant dwelling place to see thy babe the saint replies i come from s the king rejoined my infant sleeps a moment wait until he rise such great ones ne er the in long their senses steep nor softly love luxurious sleep the infant prince will soon awake from writers the wondrous child alert to rise at will his light his father s arms the held before the sage s longing eyes the beholding passing bright more glorious than the race divine and marked with every noble sign the saint was with deep delight and crying lo an with every charm of form i greet he fell before the s feet with fingers joined and round him paced next round the babe his arms he wound and one he said of two of fame in coming years the child in whom these signs are found if such an one at home abide he shall become a king whose sway supreme a mighty arm d array on earth shall far and wide certain marks are supposed by indian writers to indicate the future greatness of these children in whom they appear of these thirty two and ei ty secondary marks are referred to in the original as being on s person f the word here imperfectly translated means according to professor h h s dictionary salutation by a person or object keeping the right side towards them iso if worldly pomp as vain he choose to lead a life and wander forth from home and wife he then a s rank shall gain he spoke and on the infant gazed when tears his aged eyes his bosom heaved with heavy sighs when king asked amazed say holy man what makes thee weep and deeply sigh does any fate the royal child await may heavenly powers my infant keep for thy fair infant s no fears disturb me king the l cried no ill can such a child my own sad lot commands my tears in every grace complete thy son of truth shall perfect insight gain and far fame attain than ever has won he such a of sacred lore shall speed on earth to roll as yet the term here translated insight is derived from the same root as the word and means intelligence or t the term thus rendered expresses a somewhat singular figure it literally the wheel of the law or the wheel of or the wheel of religion see however on the sense of mr s dictionary he renders it dominion of the law in and s one of the senses assigned to wheel is the wheel of the monarch rolling over the lands dominion from writers hath never been in motion set by priest or sa or god before the world of men and gods to bless the way of rest and peace to teach a holy law thy son shall preach a law of by him shall men be freed from weakness sickness pain and grief from all the ills shall find relief which hatred love illusion breed his hand shall loose the chains of all groan in bonds confined with healing touch the wounds shall bind of those whom pain s sharp arrows his potent words shall put to flight the dull array of leaden clouds which helpless mortals vision and clear their intellectual sight by him shall men who now in paths of error stray be	28
he rudely grasped thus by his hated fingers clasped she tore her locks and cried inspired this insult i may not survive i enter now this fire alive yet though i die i once again shall live to this wrong and though my vengeance slumber long my pious works their shall gain and i shall on earth a virgin fair of royal she ceased with fixed resolve to die the fire she entered calm when all at once to this deed heroic from the sky there fell a shower of fi grant flowers rained down by gods from heavenly nor was this maid s vain all her heart s desire as she was bom again the daughter of a royal and won great for her lor l whom men as s self adored and now the demon king profane whose coming doom had been foretold by that insulted maid of old by s hand in fight was slain for how could power withstand s brand from writers sketches of different as in the hymns of the lo reared of old by hands high towers in heaven a palace fair its roof a thousand columns bear a thousand round it shine in god like state sits in golden to work his will with mien his angel hosts around him wait when i beheld this vision bright i deemed the god was clad in flame such radiance from his presence came and overpowered my aching sight mom when starts from sleep he his car which with gold all worlds before him lie as o er the sky his sweep the righteous lord the supreme of universal sway his law both men and gods obey to his decree the he spread the earth and watery waste he reared the sky he bade the sun these sketches are from the fifth volume of original c i o his shining circuit daily run in him the worlds are all embraced by his decree the radiant moon moves through the nightly sky serene and sparkle round their queen but whither have they fled at noon the rivers flow at his request and yet admire his wondrous skill the ocean bed they never fill although their currents never rest the path of ships across the sea the soaring eagle s flight he knows f the course of every wind that blows and all that was or is to be descending ceaseless from the sky his angels glide this world around as far as earth s remotest bound all range their thousand eyes this mighty lord who rules on high though closely veiled from mortal gaze all men s most secret acts he ever far is ever nigh in indian the moon is a god not a goddess but i have in this line to the customary english poetical t compare xxx there be three things which are too wonderful for me yea four which i know not the way of an eagle in the air the way of a serpent upon a rock the way of a ship in the midst of the sea c from writers two think they are not overheard sit and plot as if alone their fancied all are known unseen the god is there a third er should think his way to wing and unknown beyond the sky yet could not there the eye and grasp of the king for all within the vast expanse of air that heaven and earth er above the heaven lies open to his piercing glance the ceaseless all he sees and of every mortal s eyes in vain to move a creature tries unless the god the power to thoughtful men who truth discern and deeply things divine explore the god his hidden lore but fools his secrets may not learn he marks the good and ill within the hearts of men the false and true with never view he hates deceit sin his bonds than and more hard to burst the wicked bind in vain within their folds confined to cast them off uie i and yet the god will not refuse his grace to one who when bound his errors owns and for forgiveness meekly but where is lord thy friendship now thine ancient kindness restore may we so dear to thee of no longer dread thy frowning brow thine ire we did not madly brave nor break thy laws in wanton mood we fell by wine subdued forgive us gracious lord and save us from the guilt we pray of all the sins our fathers and sins which we commit in thought and speech and act from day to day from dire disease preserve us free nor doom us to the house of clay before our frames decay a good old age yet let us see in vain shall hostile shafts the man thy arm secure no wrong he safe as if in iron mail as mother birds their spread to guard from harm their brood do thou lord most great and good preserve from all the ills we dread compare xxv and t see xx v and xviii i if from writers many of the ideas in the preceding sketch are derived from the following hymn iv the mighty lord on high our deeds as if at hand the gods know all men do though would fain their acts whoever stands whoever moves or from place to place or hides him in bis secret cell the gods his movements trace wherever two together plot and deem they are alone king is there a third and all their schemes are known this earth is his to him belong those vast and boundless skies both seas within him rest and yet in that small pool he lies whoever far beyond the sky should think his way to wing he could not there the grasp of the king his descending from the skies glide all	28
this world around their thousand eyes all sweep to earth s remotest bound cr exists in heaven and earth er beyond the skies before the eyes of the king unfolded lies tlie ceaseless all be counts of every mortal s eyes he this universal frame as throws his those knotted which thou fling st god the bad to all let them overtake but all the truthful spare i i invitation of to the hear mighty hear great of the middle sphere list while we sweetly sing thy praise in new and well constructed lays hymns framed by poet skilled as a chariot build come come thou much our potent hymn thy has thy golden car already waits thy pleasure at thy palace gates friend from the sky descend thy course hither bend come straight and let no rival priest prevail to draw thee from our feast let no one catch thee unawares like bird the artful all is prepared the draught is sweet as thou hast ever and we will feed with com and tend thy at their journey s end but though of us thou and our gladly we mortal men can only share a humble portion of thy care we know how many potent ties thee in thy paradise thou hast at home a lovely wife the joy and solace of thy life thou hast a ceaseless round of joys which all thy hours joys such as gods immortal know by mortals here below from t writers i but brother come accept our gifts thou friend divine come come in eager haste our to hear our food to taste like lover by female who rushes to his dear one s arms accept our sweet and grateful song come we will not detain thee long il s hear while thy birth we sing thy deeds thy greatness glorious king old father sky and mother earth both confounded at thy birth the sky exclaimed at that great sight thy father was a of moat skill was he the god whose fashioned thee this infant of force sprang forth firom a source a blessed mother bore the child and fondly on her offspring smiled then with pride and joy the might and glory of the boy he needed not a tedious of to mature his strength his force be felt as soon as bom and laughed all hostile powers to scorn grasping his deadly shafts in pride of thus the infant cried where mother dwell those warriors fierce whose haughty hearts these must pierce and when thy proved thy foe thy fury laid him low i who vainly sought thy life to take then thou sleep when thou wake who in his mood thy mother doomed to what god stood by thy wrath to fire when seizing by the foot thy thou st him dead in youthful ire iii arrival now our ardent prayer the god approaches through the air on on he comes majestic bright our longed for friend appears in sight his brilliant form beheld afar towers stately on his golden car fair sun like lustre god like grace and martial fire his face yet not one form alone he bears but various shapes of glory wears his aspects changing at his will yet still in war like semblance see him stand red in his hand the heavenly his shining team with all the s colours gleam on they fly as swift as thought across the sky and soon bring nigh their mighty lord to us his friends a friend adored now from the sky yes yes to us his way he although we see him not we know he now is present here below within our placed he our grateful feast to taste from writers iv invited to k the draught oft of old hast with keen delight our draught all gods delicious love but all other gods above thy mother knew how well this was fitted for her s use into a she the sap which thou upon her lap yes on thy mom the very hour that thou born thou those jovial tastes display which still survive in strength to day aud thou prince of genial souls men say thou drained st thirty to thee the draughts proceed as to the lake they feed or rivers to the ocean speed our cup is foaming to the brim with pressed to sound of hymn come drink thy utmost craving like thirsty in forest lake or that in arid waste and burns the brook to taste indulge thy te and at will drink again drink thy stomach fill v praise of this is a god he t he ills that man he the sick the sad he cheers he nerves the weak their fears the faint with martial fires with lofty thoughts the bard t i the soul from earth to heaven he lifts so great and wondrous are his gifts men feel the god within their veins and cry in loud strains we ve the bright and are immortal grown we ve entered into light and all the gods have known mortal now can harm or vex us more through thee beyond alarm immortal god we the gods themselves with pleasure feel king s influence o er them steal and once as have told thus sung in merry mood of old vi s song yes yes i will be generous now and grant the bard a horse and cow for haven t i the draught these draughts me with the force of that sweep in furious course for haven t i the draught they drive me like a car that then whirled along by flying these hymns approach me fondly now as to calf the mother cow i turn them over as i muse as carpenter the log he the tribes of men the nations all i count as something very small both worlds how vast er they be don t 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the other gods they could not thy desire the years which wear away all else to thee bring no decay thou on in youthful force while countless ages run their course un vexed by cares or fears or strife in bliss serene flows on thy life xi s to his thou art a friend a brother a dear a father mother though thou hast troops of friends yet we can boast no other friend but thee with this our hymn thy skirt we grasp as boys their fathers garments clasp our ardent prayers thy form embrace as women s arms their lords they round thee cling with gentle force like saddle about a horse from writers with faith we claim thine aid for thou art ours and we are thine thou art not deaf though far away thou all er we pray and be not like a lazy priest who at the dainty feast sits still in self indulgent ease and only cares himself to please come not out with hand the brilliant at thy command thy i hands are wont to grant all thy servants want why is it then thou still and dost not now our hopes fulfil if i were thou and thou i my should not vainly cry thou a mortal i divine in want i ne er would let thee pine had i like thee unbounded power i wealth on all my friends would shower shed wealth as trees when shaken rain their ripe fruit down upon the plain thy strong right hand great god we hold with eager grasp imploring gold thou our all fulfil if such shall only be thy will like headlong bull s force strikes all things down that bar thy course art thou to gracious deeds inclined then who shall make thee change thy mind abundant shoot forth from thee as leafy boughs firom vigorous tree to men thou wives and joyful st their lives thou sons courageous strong to guard their aged from wrong lands jewels horses herds of all kinds of wealth are gifts of thine thy friend is never slain his might is never in the fight yes those who in the battle s shock thine aid victorious god with force inspired with shout of triumph put their foes to thou those thy praise who sing and gifts devoutly bring but thou all the proud the and the crowd who thine existence doubt and cry in scorn no rules on high the rich can ne er thy be the rich who never think of thee when storms are and skies are bright wine treat thee with despite when clouds collect and roar the tremble and no deed is done but thou dost see no word is said unheard by thee the of mortals thou dost to thy decree the strongest yield thou dost the high and fierce the lowly in their place but thy true friends secure repose by thee from all their woes from straits brought forth to ample room to glorious light from gloom and thou dost view special grace the fair race who own the gods their laws obey and pious homage duly pay thou st us horses cattle gold as thou give our of old from writers thou sweep t away the dark brood lawless senseless rude who know not hate friends and spoil the race which he chase away the robbers chase those black and base and save us from the spite of that us in the our rites disturb by contact vile preserve us friend our fears and let us live a hundred years and when our earthly course we ve run and gained the region of the sun then let us live in ceaseless glee sweet there with thee the stain sob v with praises meet the god and bless of living things the soul whose advent men greet like a has his watery before bim far off within the darkening sky the thundering lion s roar is heard fierce blow the the flash men cattle flee in wild the wicked the to bear the crash malignant stricken lie the forest s leafy tall prostrate fall er passes by speed on thy car haste and as thou o er the sky thine ample to with showers the thirsty waste now forth let swollen burst and o er the withered meadows flow let plants their influence know and cattle their thirst thy wondrous might god declare with bright the earth adorn clothe far and wide the fields with com and food for all the world prepare but oh we pray kind since now our with rain bright fain would see again thy no more or x king s car my hymn which thundering crashing onward rolls its bounding now soaring high with ruddy glow it tints the sky again a lower path it keeps and clouds of dust before it sweeps as maidens after lovers haste by kindred hosts the god is chased writers while round him the his stately car ia along still his airy he never rests on any day old ally of waters streaming through the sky tliis god was bom we know not where within the boundless of air no power may e er this lord control of other gods the breath the soul of all existing things the source who where he wills his course his voice is heard in breeze and storm but who hath ever seen bis form the i by led on high the sun the sky his glory drawing every eye all seeing sun the stars so bright which gleamed throughout the sombre night now scared like thieves fast away by the splendour of thy ray thy beams to men thy presence show like blazing fires they seem to glow conspicuous rapid source of light thou au the bright in sight of gods and mortal eyes in sight of heaven thou st the skies bright god	28
thou st with searching ken the doings all of busy men thou o er the sky thy rays create and measure out our days thine eye all living things i o seven thy chariot bear self the fields of air bright god with flaming hair that glow above the darkness we beholding upward to thee for there among the gods thy light supreme is seen bright b h the ur ra i i hail daughter of the sky who borne upon thy shining car by ruddy bom afar and ever nigh thou sweetly goddess fair all thy youthful grace thy bosom bright thy radiant face the lustre of thy golden hair so shines a fond and winning bride who robes her form in brilliant guise and to her lord s admiring eyes her charms with conscious pride or virgin by her mother who in her beauty shows in every glance her power she knows all eyes to fix all hearts subject or who by skill in song and dance and graceful gestures light and many coloured bright the eager gazing throng writers or maid who wont her to lave iq some cool stream among the woods id deep fairer from the wave but closely by the sun aud in the race thou soon art locked in bis embrace and with him into one fair though through years thou hast lived on yet thou art bom anew on each succeeding mom and so thou art both young and old as in thy fated ceaseless thou on us day by day thou all our lives away with silent ever wasting force their round our generations mn the old depart and in their place springs ever up a younger race whilst immortal on all those who watched for thee of old are gone and now tis we who gaze on thy approach in future days shall other men thy beams behold but tis not thoughts so grave and sad alone that thou dost with thee bring a shadow o er our hearts to fling thy beams returning us glad i thy sister sad and sombre night with stars that in the blue expanse like sleepless eyes mysterious glance at thy approach is in light and earthly forms till now concealed behind her veil of dusky hue once more come sharply out to view by thine glow revealed thou art the life of all that lives the breath of all that breathes the sight of thee makes every countenance bright new strength to every spirit gives when thou dost pierce the gloom birds flutter forth from every all as from death awake and men their tasks resume some prosperous wake in mood and others every nerve to strain the goal of wealth or power to gain or what they deem the highest good but some to thoughts in hymns the gods immortal praise and light on earthly to blaze the heaven bom fire and not alone do bard and priest awake the gods thy power confess by starting into consciousness when thy first rays the east from writers and downward from the sky they visit men devout and good their consecrated food and all their satisfy bright goddess let thy genial rays to us bring stores of envied wealth in and and sons with health and joy of heart and length of days the of great though thine essence be but one thy forms are three as fire thou here as lightning in the atmosphere in heaven thou as the golden sun it was in heaven thou thy birth but thence of a holy sage conveyed thee down on human to shine and thou st a of earth sprung from the mystic pair by hands in joined forth flashes bright but o ye heaven and earth i tell you right the unnatural child the parent but is a god we must not deem that he can or dare to hie acts which far our reason s grasp he best can judge what deeds a god the two pieces of fuel by the of which fire is produced and which are represented as husband and i and yet this god himself although his mother soon and cannot nurse the babe as babe requires great wondrous infant grows and smoke god with voice and flaming hair when thou dost pierce the gloom at early mom and all the world both heaven and earth and gods and men rejoice in every home thou art a welcome guest the household s lord a son a father mother brother all in one a friend by whom thy faithful friends are a swift winged messenger thou down from heaven to crowd our the race divine to taste our food our hymns to hear and all our aspirations crown thou art our priest wise in holy science thy skill the faults that mar our rites mistakes and all our acts and art the cord that to the skies the bridge that the chasm profound and vast dividing earth from heaven o er which at last the good shall safely pass to paradise but when great god thine awful anger and thou thy destroying force all creatures flee before thy furious course as hosts are chased by overpowering foes from writers thou all thou forests thou st like which s thy wind driven flames roar loud as waves and all th track is black when thou host passed but thou j eat dost not often wear that form thou rather st to upon our with flame and cheer the homes where thou art nursed with care yea thou all those men to bless who toil to supply the food which thou so of well dried wood and heaps of butter bring thy favourite mess though i no cow possess and own no store of butter nor an axe fresh wood to thou gracious god wilt my poor gift receive these	28
few dry sticks i bring i have no more preserve ns lord thy faithful servants save from all the ills by which our bliss is tower like an iron wall our homes to guard and all the bestow our hearts can and when away our brief existence when we at length our earthly homes must quit and our freed souls to worlds unknown shall do thou deal gently with our cold remains and then thy gracious form assuming guide our part across the dark abyss aloft to serene of light and bliss where righteous men among the gods abide i a f life z x and to great king homage pay who was the first of men that died that crossed the mighty gulf and for mortals out the heavenly way no power can ever close the road which he to us laid open then by which in long procession men ascend to his sublime abode by it our fathers all have passed and that same path we too shall trace and every new succeeding race of mortal men while time shall last the god round his throne a growing throng the good and wise all those whom with searching eyes he as his own departed mortal speed from earth by those old ways thy have trod ascend behold the expectant god who calls thee to a higher birth first must each several element that joined to form thy living frame to the region whence it came and with its parent source be thine eye shall seek the thy life breath to the wind shall fly thy part ethereal to the sky thine part shall earth from writers part shall a i bright with his rays and guide it through the gloom to yonder sphere of life and light on bis rise or upon a car aloft by gods with breezes soft until thou paradise and calmly pass without alarm the four eyed hounds which guard the road that to s bright abode their master s friends they dare not all leave behind assume thine ancient frame once more each limb and sense thou before from every earthly taint refined and now with heavenly glory bright with life nobler with large capacity to taste a fuller measure of delight thou there once more each well known face shalt see of those thou here thy parents wife and children dear with rapture shalt thou then embrace fathers too shalt thou behold the heroes who in battle died the saints and the pious kings of old the gods whom here in humble wise thou with doubt and awe shall there the veil withdraw which hid their glory from thine eyes the good which thou on earth hast wrought each sacrifice each pious deed shall there receive its ample no worthy act shall be forgot in those fair of day where every joy supplies and every longing thy bliss shall never know decay lu x there then was neither aught nor no air nor sky beyond what covered all where rested all in watery gulf profound nor death was there nor nor change of night and day that one breathed calmly self sustained nor else beyond it lay gloom hid in gloom existed one sea view that one a void in chaos by inward grew within it first arose desire the of mind which nothing with existence links as searching find the ray that shot across the dark and abyss was it beneath or high aloft what bard can answer this writers there powers were found and mighty forces strove a self supporting mass beneath and energy above who knows er hath told from whence this vast creation rose no gods had then been bom who then can e er the truth disclose whence sprang this world and whether framed by hand divine or no its lord in heaven alone can tell if even he show the x thou goddess here to stray forlorn among woods these dark and dreary why dost thou not the way that leads to cheerful human haunts is there here thy spirit herself the goddess does not although she beasts on fruits the traveller supplied by her and goes his way sweet scented fragrant rich in flowers her realm with various food is filled for though by she is not she drinks in sap from heavenly showers ix men s tastes and trades are and so their ends and aims are various the smith seeks something cracked to mend the could fain have sick to tend the priest desires a from whom he may extract a fee each makes and his ware and hopes the rich man s gold to share my s a and i a bard com my mother toiling hard all craving wealth we each pursue by means the end in view like people running after cows which too far oflf have strayed to the draught horse seeks an easy yoke the merry dearly love a joke of pretty maidens men are fond and thirsty desire a pond z these that roll upon the board to me intense delight afford sweet has not more power to me in an evil hour to strife and my gentle wife was always kind but i absorbed in play have chased this tender away from writers she now in turn ray her mother s wrath against me distressed and vexed in vain i plead for none will help me in my need ab wretched as a worn out hack s a s life all his means by play away are worn while court his wife forlorn his father mother brothers shout the madman bind and drag him out at times the scorn of every friend i try my foolish ways to mend resolve no more my means to waste on this taste but all in vain when coming near the rattle of the i hear i rush attracted by their charms	28
like lady to her lover s arms as to his game the once more his hopes of winning rise and loss hut more his fires to tries his luck he never the their victims hook and tear disturbing false though fair the gains they yield to day to morrow all are swept away these a potent hand the of men command they laugh to scorn the fierce man s frown before them kings bow down they downward roll they upward bound and men with bands confound they the heart like these although themselves as cold as ice the s wife is sad his mother her lad in want at night he seeks relief by a trembling thief he groans to see his wretched wife and then the happy wives and life of others free from care and strife his bad career with morning light begun in ruin ends by night to him the chief who leads your bands ye i lift my hands i hail thy gifts when those art kind but thy leave to speak my mind forgive me king of all the if thus i give my friend advice abandon play and till the soil for this shall better pay thy toil well pleased with what thou hast forbear to of wealth an share thy wife thy in these rejoice thus cries a god with warning voice be gracious we now us with your no more from us withdraw to us be kind and others with your bind e r x ff the liberal does not mourn or die no care or pain his life the world is his with all its joys and future bliss beyond the sky he owns a palace bright and dwells in pomp and pride a richly and winning bride sits fair and blooming by his side and fills his heart with love s delight from writers with store of com and wine supplied a merry life he leads swift o er the plain hia chariot whirled on by he his foes by aid divine the have not ordained that we should die of want the lean and weak are not death s only prey the sleek themselves must soon his victims he the man endowed with ample who his heart in selfish mood against the poor who sue for food shall no find himself no friend is he who coldly away his friend forlorn he thus in wrath and scorn to some more stranger turns relieve the poor while yet ye may down future time s long vista look and try to read that book your riches soon may away ye cannot trust their grace aa chariot wheels in ceaseless round now upward turn now touch the ground so riches ever change their place the man whose friend receives no share of all his good himself who thus alone his food his sin alone shall also bear he r in vii as who a vow fulfil the had now a year been still like dried and skins they lay faint with heat for many a day expecting long in vain the showers withheld by air s malignant but autumn comes rains in copious streams and floods the plains clouds veil the sun the air is cool the long empty now are full there float the their bodies afar is heard their merry well they jump aloft in glee and join in noisy they leap upon each other s backs and each to t other cries co ax as teachers first call out a word then boys repeat what they have heard just so the out once more what other had before sounds issue from their throats some low like cows some like though one in name of various for one is brown another green as at a around the bowl in talk unite from writers this day the their pond and the air with these priests the their voices raise and sing their hymn of praise as priests who o er a pot soon quit the fire they find too hot the bo long oppressed with heat in from their retreat from rules divine they never but all the seasons observe when autumn comes their sufferings cease from heat they find release the that and those that low brown green on men all wealth bestow the that on our pastures we owe to them with length of days vi when in mail the warrior proud on defiant to the front to bear the ri ng battle s we seem to see a cloud bold warrior may thine bright preserve thee in the fight may i the s malice foil with this my all bow may i triumphant lay him low and all his goods and cattle spoil this bow our foes with ruin and all surrounding the to the s ear approaches close as if to speak its is like a woman s shriek it guards the warrior s soul from fear see yonder on the chariot stands the whose skill his horses onward drives whose will their movements to and fro commands the reins their wondrous power although behind the control the impetuous as forward to the fight they rush their our crush they never the i x knowing that soul who is wise or calm young free from desire immortal self satisfied with the essence of good or and in no respect imperfect a man does not dread death as the soul ia masculine in i have ventured to put the relative following the word in that i am indebted to professor of for recalling my attention to this verse which i had quoted in my original iv p ii without hands or feet he and moves without eyes he sees without ears he hears he knows whatever is but no one knows men call him the great man or spirit i a portion of tke of thb passage beginning at iii knowing that lord the which ia	28

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