Show t R Rs Rt s t y q d II Glowing Verses in Which the Clergyman Sings in the I II Ir Most Rapturous Terms the Praises of His Beloved I Mrs Ly dig the Twice Divorced Society Beauty t C rC r- r TI TIthe t the Church Forbids Him i Thom t tr to harry f baptize the n the Name of the r Father and of the Son and of the J l Holy Ghost Amen t v I 1 i Fr f y tub a s a Mye t Id f Ya Yay Yar r P PC l C i n a al a s r dx ti 1 g 1 as asa a iw t P Fl i la E t 4 s H d ai aie e 3 r f q P A 4 s AJi 4 Y c 4 t j f A v 4 r rt t 1 y S v 1 r a l t I t tj I I 1 t pp 11 I j e E Ed VY Y b I 1 h PJ d V d I tr E it t r i I k 7 t tk r r j jt rf i f J E rE t 4 The Rev t 3 i Dr Grant 1 3 baptizing b z the little 4 waif who i a I Ib I At AtI t P Pa y f a was mys mys- f r t enous I y yc tT c H left at his door I clI 1 lI J h lit Di i 1 1 fr LaW J JIN N THE minds of BI Bishop hop Manning and other dignitaries IN I of the Protestant Episcopal Church the there e is a great dea deal of doubt concerning the religious beliefs ot of the Rev Dr t Percy S b Grant rector of the Church of the AscensIOn In New dew York It is being questioned whether a man holding the views he does about the birth of of- Christ the New Testament mira mira- mira miracles des cles and other matters should be allowed ed to continue as a minister of the Church and by the tile time these lines are read it is possible that steps will have hate been taken to bring him before an ecclesiastical court on a I charge of heresy But But however the soundness of the Rev Dr Grants Grant's theology may be bo questioned there is no room for doubt as asto asto asto to the depths of his love for Mrs Philip M Iii Lydig the 1 twice ice divorced dl society beauty to whom he became engaged nearly two t years ears ago In fact many think his recent outbursts of revo revolutionary religIOus views are the result of the resentment he feels over Bishop Mannings Manning's refusal to give his proposed mar mar- marriage marriage marriage the of the Church This refusal was based on the circumstances under which Mrs Lydig was divorced from her latest husband Still more interesting evidence of ot the way the elderly clergyman's heart has been taken captive by Mrs Lydig's charms is found in the volume of poems which he has just dedicated to her In these verses Dr Grant takes his lute in hand like some troubadour of old and sings the praises of his lady love with a fervor that would do credit to II a mu much h younger lover The intensity of the feeling shown in many of these im- im impassioned impassioned im impassioned lyrics seems to leave no doubt that he would be I willing v illing to escape from the love dilemma in which the Bishops Bishop's attitude has placed him by sacrificing his Church connections for Mrs Irs Lydig's sake sale But Mrs Lydig is said to want her lover to remain In his pulpit and to have set her heart on marrying him accord accord- according according according ing to the Episcopal rites or not at all This leads many to believe that Dr Grant hopes by his recent attacks on ortho ortho- orthodoxy orthodoxy doxy to win WID enough support to force the Church to amend its laws on the subject of the marriage rc of divorced per per- persons or sons sons or at least to make an exception of this romance of his Dr Grants Grant's book is called A Fifth Avenue Parade and Other Poems and is published by Harper 8 Bros One of its most kable tributes to Mrs Lydig entitled The Lover reads as follows I J love her body and soul I But I 1 I must choose j j Alas Her IIer heart it tt is to so kind So sweet wed her body pure her mind 1 I 1 I would d not lOBeA lose lOBe loseA A it petal of the perfect whole whole Her lIer gentle spirit wounds her flesh flea She woe f So keenly Sorrow pain and sin in 1 Gaze at her all bright within And grove grieve her so Tears Tears mar the body's golden mea mesh i it t y Her 11 er face is fair as temple gates gate r- r I r rI I 1 I linger there therel I l A And look loo and love then reverently r ri Pass Pas the the fairer soul to in tn see aee f f Nor may compare I J i i The door to what within awaits I i r 1 r are arc angel choirs choir heard t tt t 1 And heavens heaven's appeal e r J There T ere jeweled windows mystic sight BIght r Reveal their beauty and the tho light I So there I 1 I kneel kneely y Mc down doun and is and WORSHIP is the word The dedication of the volume is almost as graceful and earnest a tribute to Mrs L Lydig Li dig as any of the verses It reads like lie this To Rita Illta H II de Alba de Acosta an all ambitious and stimulating intelligence gifted with a knowledge of th the beautiful a Tanagra figure come to life life-j life a captivating companIon The Tanagra to Which which Dr Grant compares Mrs Lydig was a terra cotta figure of some domestic deity delly such IS as the ancient Greeks made in great numbers and used to grace their houses and temples They get their name from the fact that so man many of them have been found in the ruins of Tanagra in B olia These figures are ranked among the most exquisitely beautiful things that have come down to us front from these earl early centuries and to compare a woman to ono one onos is s about as high a compliment as can be paid to her t of face and Ind figure Y r A poem entitled The Wakeful Bride one of the longest In the book deals deab with a sort of Maud Muller theme theme-a theme theme-a theme aman man to whom love comes too late in 11 life In this the poet poet- poet poet-paster pastor introduces three characters characters-an characters an old earl his bride many years younger than he anda and a young page It begins as follows The Th old earl lay in his restless bed bert His fair bride brule by his side ide The young page gazed from the out outer r tower And all their eyes were wide Then Dr Grant goes on to disclose that it is 15 long after midnight and that the tho mind of the earl carl is filled with Ith thoughts of the past in this wise The Th old earl saw a ghost that night The ghost of his youth long spent Proud tourneys battles far crusades Before his dim dint eyes went Gradually in the well cadenced verse Dr Grant dis- dis discloses discloses dis discloses closes that the elderly nobleman is wishing that he were the page and out on the tower the page is wishing that he were the nobleman He lIe puts S his wishes Into in speech thus Id I'd kneel beside your snowy bed Js v fI l 11 And kiss Aiss your arms and your hair Mur mW Id I'd watch by your side Bide till you waked at last ut J 1 q And sm smiled cd to sec ec me ins ne there 1 1 But the dual musing of the earl and the page came to naught In the succeeding few stanzas rs flit it t is made clear that the bride felt that her future futuro would have been happier had the rates given her a child like the young page ito to rear as liS her own The poem closes close like fl this Rk I KM Oh Ok a summer ummer night is as a dread as a a ghost To lovers who lack their desire For it tt tells o death o-death death but it wakes to life Ii hf UThe i The The slumbering hearts heart's pent fil fire file e V VAnd And the little bride the bride brule of ofa a year 7 f Lay Bt stilt still l tear stained ed and white And she thought of the th earl earland and the how she she h had left And she thought of the page so bright I IA Jan A poem entitled At the Musicale deals inan inan in an lover unusual way with the h hopes p and fears of the lover who must be denied the possession of his beloved the until they have reached the world beyond t the e grave Its four stanzas follow M She touched my hand as a the singer finger sang I IA A pressure and that was Wa all UShe Sh She e knew the music would bring a pang fi ITo It I 4 t To To my heart and it its grief recall II And no on one saw caw her touch my hand Save the singer Binger of all t the to J throng 4 If Who w sang like one lne of 01 God Gods God's angel band band For h he put our love in his song ong t i f-i t He Be told me loge loi lives lizes by hope alone I By mth that a heart is true 1 1 That love Cove by night must veep uee and moan moan And v vAnd And i suffer uffer the th long 9 day through t i J i I lie He said aid her Mr touch pure soul Was lyas whispering w close clos to nine mute f I I Mrs Philip M L Lydig the captivating mg E I companion and Tanagra figure j ji i come to w whose h o charms ha sher her 01 sweetheart s clergyman an I 2 celebrates i ian in n a volume volum 0 of f fI t po poems ems with a nil 11 the be I en en- en ens s V 1 i f th of ofen ono one q Q a Eke t a ar a of the nn a troubadours f r I O I v t tf vIf If r v rIt t It r w S y f f 11 9 nl J ti t 7 r N f ft a 1 b db d d i f t t A C d E fF A At Ad t X b N II ci iff v 4 w e 1 t t 4 t tz tiP i i z e la i s o 7 ilk 4 II ort I ft ft I t I p Jr t M r i t I II i S 4 I ji I i J r Be strong trong r 1 If here this i is the whole In heaven 1 I shall hall be he thine thiU B The doubts that must ever harass the earnest lover form farm the the- theme the theme of the poem poem entitled What Will Love DoT Do It ends with this rather melancholy stanza IT This fiam flame we feed by bV look looT and touch t i In death deaths death's eyes w wilt will l it tt matter much The sense is tI now the spirits spirit's lute If 1 sense destroyed no substitute ShaU gite love voice voica for song ong anew anew- anew What will love do Not all the the verses verses in m the volume dedicated to Mrs lIhs Mis Lydig s have love for the theme Some deal deal in vIgorous vigorous fashion with various social problems of the UThe dlly-UThe The day day The Radical Tire T Anarchist Ellis The Island Patrol Wagon One sonnet entitled The Police Court is as follows Are these thee Thy children Lord this criminal II row Who in the crowded court their sentence nail t ait Straining to hear the judge d ge pronounce t their h f fate ate 4 t I t And laugh or scowl or deep indifference show j Their prison that days days that fear is all they know know know- Imprisoned souls unheeding their heir fixed eta q stat state Poor sensual faces laces weak wear and passionate I A mark of Cain Cann foredoomed to crime each brow Ah not no Our crimes crones are not in births birth's decree i Our OUT evil deeds are not the fruit full grows Of seedling sins set ct ou tn in n infancy i We Wc ar are not blown about as cu leaves are blown n y For Far our temptations tell us UI 1 ue I are free free- free Thy ch children dren God e since nce ve us a choice cho ce are spawn While the critics admire the whole hole enthusiasm eJ with winch which wh ch Dr Grant sings his love and other themes many of them find much much to criticize in the technique ot of hi his verses There are to too many flaws fin in his workmanship Ol e say says one I forthe too much that is mere prose There Thero is not not tho rho instinct for forI to I the inevitably right word right phrase right cadence by byi i I which men nien are ale made poets It is a pity for he be has many l f feeIng worth high 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