Show t i 1 I 1 ifa RE jl iviry rao 67 t 1 r 4 k 4 I 1 1 I 1 a GOOD 6 ad SHORT STORIES TH V VETERANS jo john jobia biU brown iut u D day Y OB X krab th P ke chain of connected I 1 with the death ca 0 gen Va I 1 ode to the greek AM by more C 7 C t than b sn moslem tj fetters th raUd 0 marble prison of a radiant thought where life la is I 1 half balf recalls recal ld I 1 A and n d beauty M dwells creat I 1 ed not en RS wrought why haun test thou my dreams enrobed unrobed in light and with purity wherein mine own soul is transfigured trans figured and grows bright As an though an angel smiled sinned away ito ita I 1 sin 0 chastity of artl art behold this maiden shape makee solitude of all the busy mart beneath her souls immeasurable woe wo e all sensuous vision lies subdued A and from her veiled eyes the flow 0 of f tears to Is inward turned upon her heart while on the poisoning prison ing lips I 1 her eloquent spirit swoons and from the lustrous brows eclipse palls falls patient glory as from clouded moons severe in festal vestal grace yet warm and flexile with the delicate glow of youth she stands the sweet embodiment of truth her pure thoughts clustering around her form like seraph garments whiter t than han the snows which the wild sea up throws 0 genius thou canet chain not marble only but the alie human a soul out and melt the heart with soft control and wake such reverence in the brain that man may be forgiven if in the ancient days he dwelt idolatrous with sculptured life and knelt to beauty more than heaven genius Is worship tor for its works adore the infinite source of all their glorious thought so blessed art like nature Is oer fraught with such a wondrous store of hallowed influence that we who gaze aright on her creations haply pray and praise go then fair slave and in thy fetters teach what heaven inspired and genius hath designed be thou evangel of t true art and preach the freedom of the mind john browna lat last days day the following characteristic letter from john brown written only a few days before his bis execution has just been published for the first time it waz was a addressed to the great grand uncle of miss julia king of the faculty of the emerson college of oratory it is in worthy of a wide circulation charlestown Charies Charles town jefferson co va 19 nov 1859 rev luther humphrey my dear friend your kind letter of the dinst is now before me so far as my knowledge goes as to our mutual kindred I 1 suppose I 1 am the first since the landing of peter B brown rown from the mayflower that has either been sentenced to imprisonment or to the gallows but my dear old friend let not ot that tact fact alone grieve you you cannot have for forgotten gotton how and where our grandfather capt john brown fell fel I 1 in 1776 and that he too might ha have v e perished on the scaffold had circumstances cum stan stances ces been but very little different the fact that a man dies under the hand of an executioner or otherwise has baa but yule little to do with his true c character harister harim ter as I 1 suppose john rogers pe perished riched at the stake a great and good man as I 1 sup suppose pos e but his being so do does not prove that any other man who has died in the same way was good or otherwise erv iise whether I 1 have any reason to be of good cheer or not in view of my end I 1 can assure you that I 1 feel eel so and that I 1 am totally blinded if I 1 do not really experience that st strengthening enin g and consolation you so faithful ly implore in my behalf god of our fathers reward your fidelity I 1 neither feel mortified degraded nor in the least ash ashamed amed of my imprisonment my chain or my near prospect of deathly death by hanging I 1 feet feel assured that not one hair shall fall from my head without my heavenly father I 1 also feel that I 1 have long been endeavoring to hold exactly such a fast as god has chosen see the ahe passage in isaiah which you have quoted no part of my life has been beetz more happily spent th than that I 1 shave have spent here and I 1 humbly chumbl arja frost that no part has been spent to better I 1 purpose I 1 I 1 would not say this but thanks be unto god who na the victory through gh in tej finite grace gracej P i should be sixty years old we i to a 9 im I 1 have ea da 7 dt mu much ch ot of alte as it I 1 Is a mend and have beeta remarkably y prosperous havone earl early y learned tore gaY d athe an ic V alj of pt bers herll asma 11 leave never nev ir sancel ar afa amount df iliev 0 zo ij I 1 i 1 aude tha that 1 I li hav e already y i nj nm 1 i r 1 a 0 swim I 1 iv hd 5 I 1 ilicin T jj 62 beenen been tj et lj to taw 7 Us f gl M z t t 1 m aa Z i ii fila I 1 t 1 11 t I 1 balu I 1 if ww ay A lj L I 1 ift my V k tu t remarkably WA aie I 1 3 11 1 Q ja 6 yaw 6 1 ciske 1 ll 11 be anam jbf e ii sjem roum liel 63 naw i 0 01 7 j V a 7 il aim AA ai t 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 li to i alwi ar vimar t ai a Q ic A f 1 0 M i m WN 1 1 1 I 1 m 1 k 2921 As A s fy sst as KV I 1 OZ ile f J di a r 11 er oven I 1 n it if I 1 had clr abul I 1 i iw it Is a long ling time since we met but we shall now know I 1 soon am n come together in a ur falt rs house 0 I 1 trust let us boid fast that ii we me already have re 1 mem bering that we shall reap in due atine time if we taint faint not thanks be ever anlo nto god who us as the victory through jesos christ our lord and now my old warmhearted warm hearted friend goodbye good bye your affectionate cousin JOHN BROWN I 1 |