First.— I’ve often heard such lyric songs From poets paid for painting wrongs With words that turn false colors out, And make the most deceiving doubt. There’s naught I hear, nor naught I see, That tells me it is good to be Among these hungry parasites That live upon the earth’s delights. I’ll have no more of fancy’s talk. If for a while you choose to walk, We’ll tnke a tramp for exercise Until enough we realize. Second.— Agreed to go, if on the way A listening ear you will display To all my heart should give to sound, And all that nature’s hills resound. ’Tis well. We leave these plastered walls In search of joy that wisdom calls To give us strength and health and peace, While in our minds all troubles cense, Minerva once the goddess was Of wisdom pure—so let us pause In thought before her throne to learn What makes the change we all discern. It is a law in Nature’s code That exercise of any mode Develops strength where’er applied, And lenves the heart well satisfied, All things nssist to make the change ; Disordered atoms rearrange; Our heavy thoughts soon disappear; And lighter grows our living here. Our talents seem so very small, We give to them no worth at all; But see you pine with lofty head, That from n little seed was fed From Nature’s storehouse. So indeed Can we find food for every need To make our talents our delight, And hear at last, “ Well done, ’tis right.” If in your heart you find a germ Of love, I pray you hold it firm; Apply the law of Nature there And find a balm for all despair. These hills, now white with winter’s snow, These trees, through which cold breezes blow, Will soon be changed by Nature’s art; Oh let it also change your heart! First.— I oft have walked this mountain path, But, blinded by a cursed wrath, Each tree that made me turn my feet Brought forth an oath I’ll ne’er repent. 1 now have reached the sage’s doubt, THE FREE LANCE. Second.— THE University system of Europe is ways an object of interest to Ameri students and to others interested in hig education, for the reason that many 1 especially to these foreign institutions advantages in preparation fqr specialties < nected with their life work. And wish more time to think about The question of my own despair. And to your recent thoughts compare. A cursing sage and happy fool, Though taught of life in a common school Are two extremes that never meet Except they hear and turn their feet. You seem to him a joyful mean And could I see the hand you’ve seen That o’er these hills bright colors hurled, I might no more condemn this world. But let me hear you speak again; You do not speak like other men; And when my own foul tongue I hear, Despondent feelings reappear. Our journey soon is at an end; Already I have gained a friend— One who can hide the woes of life Behind the pleasures of the strife. In every pleasure stands a friend Who to our happiness must lend A color: All our friends unite In one grand picture of delight, As all the trees upon a lawn Present a landscape boldly drawn With varied forms by Nature’s hand; In such a scene our joys expand. All beauty is a heavenly gift, And seeing this will serve to lift The mind above all wickedness And hold the henrt for God to bless. Dyspeptic stomachs fail to give Us rest. Although we strive to live On foods that healthy men employ, There’s naught that we in truth enjoy. And so the heart, when once diseased Cannot by beauty’s charm be pleased; Cannot by feelings high be raised, And loud exclaim, “ May God be praised ! ” We’ve reached the house from which we came; Confess that joy is more than a name, Confess that love grows in the henrt, And with “ Good-bye” two friends will part, GERMAN UNIVERSITIES.
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