Show r I x His is a passionate nature He could t Na love with a love almost akin to godly tr r worship Now and then the world becomes becomes becomes be be- comes more beautiful and grand to him and enchantment seems to seize him and nd carry him through the long dead j years to some old romantic castle where is centered the legends of ye 5 f fair maid and ve ye gallant knight of centuries long since gone by He seeks the bank of some lovely z stream and there neath the overhanging overhang overhang- ing g willows he is inspired by the music of the water rippling over the little shining pebbles and noble thoughts J flow from his mind almost un unconsciously unconsciously consciously con con- in wave of majestic grandeur 1 But even to him the world must sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- some some- times seem commonplace and he comes comes unwillingly back to his his' every-day every life to mourn the loss of an ap inspiration inspiration- and to grieve about the practical and fretful ways of mankind As he nears the climax of these thoughts of affairs the form of a loved one robed in the purest of white and surrounded with the golden light of hope appears appearson j jon 1 on the horizon of his almost boundless i fancy Then his mind again roams to toa j ja a heavenly sphere i Such is the poet continually laboring for the interests of humanity He j j jand merely works upon the human passions and thereby awakens the soul from a tiny blaze to a heavenward leaping fire fire to to more serious reflections upon the life destiny prepares for us in another world S. S S. S i |