. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. James Whitoomb KileyAge twenty-two. Ole Bull, the Master MusicianFrom photograph Riley carried as a mascot WHILE THE MUSICIAN PLAYED 179 that she might bless him with the fulfillment of agreater. Obedient to the angels prompting, he wrotehis popular poem, Kissing the Rod. Ever after, hisletters to sorrowing friends harmonized with the mes-sage of that poem. No mortal condition, he oncewrote, is better than the one God seems to weigh youdown with. In my own case I am coming every day tosee clearer the grac
. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. James Whitoomb KileyAge twenty-two. Ole Bull, the Master MusicianFrom photograph Riley carried as a mascot WHILE THE MUSICIAN PLAYED 179 that she might bless him with the fulfillment of agreater. Obedient to the angels prompting, he wrotehis popular poem, Kissing the Rod. Ever after, hisletters to sorrowing friends harmonized with the mes-sage of that poem. No mortal condition, he oncewrote, is better than the one God seems to weigh youdown with. In my own case I am coming every day tosee clearer the gracious uses of adversity.—Simply itis not adversity.—It is the very kindest—tenderest—most loving and most helpful touch of the hand Divine. Though yielding to the decree of fate, Rileys in-terest in music never abated. The man who held thatpainting is the poetry of color, sculpture the poetry ofform, and music the poetry of sound, could not at anytime of his career be far from the heart of the musicalworld. His debt to great composers was always ac-knowledged. For years after the concert he idolizedOle Bull, and
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