. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sian song,but one to which voices contribute from many(luarters. It is entirely possible to maintain that bythis treatment the poem has gradually under-gone a transformation, and that it has beentaken too seriously. There is, no doubt, alightness in the verse itself, a delicate playingwith forms and symbols that must not bepressed too (losely for their meaning, and,in general, a \ lew of life which is not neces-sarily even Omars final creed. It is more tothe point to consider what we now have as anindependent song of life and death. Into thi
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sian song,but one to which voices contribute from many(luarters. It is entirely possible to maintain that bythis treatment the poem has gradually under-gone a transformation, and that it has beentaken too seriously. There is, no doubt, alightness in the verse itself, a delicate playingwith forms and symbols that must not bepressed too (losely for their meaning, and,in general, a \ lew of life which is not neces-sarily even Omars final creed. It is more tothe point to consider what we now have as anindependent song of life and death. Into thissubject we do not purpose to go. Doubt-less the Rubaiyat, under Mr. Vedders inter-pretation, echoes the strain which rises tomany lips to-day. It is nevertheless quite per-missible for one to recognize the truth andthe sadness and sweetness in it who yet findsthe Te Deiiiit Laudanins a jirofounder h\mnof humanity; or, if he must seek an Orientalinterpretation of the human and the di\ine,may be better satisfied with the Book of Job. H. E. Vol. XXIX. TFIE OLD 3ED/1N CHHIR, • Whats not destroyd by Times devouring hand ?Wheres Troy — and wheres the May-pole in the Strand? Bra»istons Art of Politics.
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