. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. ey had not bared their faces on the earth at night;they had not suffered the pangs of humiliation. Whatcould they know—i Of the frenzy and fire of the brain,That grasps at the fruitage forbidden? There are hours in the battle with this disease when aman can breathe no prayer, nor utter a cry, hourswhen he Bends and sinks like a column of sandIn the whirlwind of his great despair. Carlyle points out that David, the Hebrew King, wasa man of blackest crimes, no want of sins, yet he wasthe man according to Go
. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. ey had not bared their faces on the earth at night;they had not suffered the pangs of humiliation. Whatcould they know—i Of the frenzy and fire of the brain,That grasps at the fruitage forbidden? There are hours in the battle with this disease when aman can breathe no prayer, nor utter a cry, hourswhen he Bends and sinks like a column of sandIn the whirlwind of his great despair. Carlyle points out that David, the Hebrew King, wasa man of blackest crimes, no want of sins, yet he wasthe man according to Gods own heart. He hadlearned the significance of sackcloth and ashes. Of allacts, says the author, is not, for a man, repentancethe most divine? What are faults, he asks, what arethe outward details of a life; if the inner secret of it,the remorse, temptations, true, often-baffled, never-ended struggle of it, be forgotten? What is a manslife if he is not touched with a feeling of our infirmi-ties? Repentance is the word that looms large on thepoets horizon after the Poe-Poem The Poet at the Age of Twenty-eight
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