THE CLINGING MAGIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 6

THE CLINGING MAGIC.

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| ' (By JQS)

vthe;lana ;ortheifs fathers, - .virtuorstaysr;-' fe :-, .., ,:I will bring back my ohildren " !After.-, certain days. ; clinging mairio runs. ~ f.;-j ' • . They f hall;return as 'strangers. : " remain ::asi s6ns.;.-.:r:,;- : ;,- Etheso'S vorses/-which'-.'ap^ar'.'-:ih liiSiv';.;.". new' booki Kipling :h"as (again?;.'succeeded;' kv>> v in'.'Biqrukg;(str«mely.v\rdl/what'>thoiisa&dß' • of. people have felt.'.' "Clinging magic"— K-vr-y-'tbat. is; exactly •• What :the ' Englishman K knows i;th^ L> : . - Old. Country, but .nowliore: else.-; And yet he cannot, in .thcW questioning .times, avoid :'tho',question existence' |i^^^^this;l!;m^c'' ; p: v', ; .bwii. mind; • and not at all in those.grasses -.which.ho longs ,to,tread. 'Tho'chemistry earth Sis :-'pretty much-'; the-'same' j::;J?,.,eyeiywhere. *.:Its vegetation is renewed-ac-iC> ; cording to tho same- laws of growth in agricnl-; l-,j'f :; ::tural;6cien(ists : Kavo : given'.us:-; nb,;:iriforr R;,;(:.Y, : force;;as;:yMr.; frr,,-f:';Kipling-,seems,. to have-vobserved., Tet E;-,'- '. in .their hundreds, have 'sung of fe|s|it; ; ahd■ jJami;men; ;and:: thousands have felt it. :' Nearly all Is ew mbre, or |tv • less, about: it.. They -havo shown'.it-,in. fiv.- .'their longings for trees-that observo the for / the ,tttat 1 ;thiy gathered .'.when they were children; f;their ; lichened : of tho. monot-,: bfth'e' settled - districts,' the r einpti--' t 1 ness of the lemoter tracts. |i > v-s'Now Zealand poetry .is nchm beautiful' fe/ of this, sentiment. Mins, Miss r?i;.'..Jessi£ Mackay:, ' . . ."But ifs-0. for-hame-an'. Appml—. :. : ',"The; heattter hills o' Appini-—' -, h. ■ • Tho ..thousand • years .0' A.ppm where ' the; ' 1(»1 men lie! ; . -. .• will tak* a root '~ fi-r■ By. tho mighty, mountain foot; -. f But we, we canna' sever, . s no-for us whaiever." . jpt.-i- ;,,In -Mary Colborno-Veel's "Emiisravit," the' colonist ; acknowledges the |%; v ; glory,of mountain:and : bush, .rejoices in R- ' .'.Ws.MPortnil trees-and' garden: flowors; — if., - **But ah! -my-happy ghost must-:walk,., t' If happy ghosts may bo, ( In an: English,lane or-'meadow--pl groiring' freo."" ,Hv f;-.-,, -is homc-sicloicss, perhaps; but-it: is iwSa> something,-more;; ,:It is; a isentimeii "wlrich' K.i-.jvpartakes'of,patriotism,:andof'the:love of k r •Saturo,.-- of reveremce . for the ■-, -heroism;\p:;tho asgirattioits,• the axt of' the past'and' fcr:?s '.vßympa&y - with its burdens and rta brt-W.Di-.etenifiss. - And, tho dmgmg -magic -may-.be feiv.-. '.-felt without home-fiickness and without - the": satisfactioiis of,, the retuniing native, fes ru-For.- myjself;- I know it;.among ■ certain gife green hUls , beforo :I -had; been 50 .miles- !;•' -.: from: tho place where' 1 was born. Nor tea i-does it depend upon the' beauty -of the fc-. ; : .-Sceiiei7. I have felt it most' in a ? - . -. ' Vr-hich is neither,,-haunted by artists ■ nor f orver-nm by tourists. The Arno may be a |y - : fairer and more famous stream-, than the 1-. - Tee 3, Lavernia may-; havo perfections: unC;- *haied by Scargill, but the Jacobite exilo -"Heard, ,on Licverma,, Scargflfs ' whisp , yetzng trees, |i I by Arno for her lovelier &>atmng.is thas magic that it -nas wnttcn af a ccrtiun pla«; beloved of its 'sons, !: . "£ri-j very diLst to ,them :is dcar.'f;Bolingl-;-. .;*;broke, gning-,mto exile, aics, "Than Eng- , . feroraid,;farewell; sweet soil, p.;,.-,..,; adrcn." : Brchard 11, returning-.from Ire-laiid^-'.w«s)s.for joy -to stand:again . on: I 'Bng&h ground,'and exclaims, R " ' SDear; «Bih,; I thee with lidy: f« hima, %t rt q f ( Eioogii xAds wound thee with their p, horses' hoofa.""-; ,■/ p* 1- • ;X- like, to thmt • that, - though mnch of '':|Ejdiaitfß; sentmKmtahsm wasi artificial, natural- dt that moment. Boswell' ,;.iead., with - enthusiasm v . (probably ■ quite , !rial) .theso lines from John Eons "Lcmp idoirj— | p;;- "On TJiames's banks in silent thonglit IYQ f 1 stood. v { 'Whero Greemnch snnles upon tho diver 1 ', flood.,' h; ,' Tleased with tho Beat; which' gave Eliza !'- - ttt'- 1 - - - -. .. . -"Wo kneel :, and, kiss tho s consecrated | > , earth"— ft . - .And yet ~I could,, never quite' imagine .'.-•-..•"tho great lexicographer" actually doing L isa ~ f l -. " People. have laboriously earned sail of J,, , - Hlxur. fathcrhmd - into distant placcs. I t-'r] 'teso in .my house. a piece of tho'.-earth my.nativo' shire.;' I;did not bring it ■ .-. hero myself,: and. it was for quite -prosaic t uses that it was purchased. It is noromantic than a 'Batir brick,; briidis^VoT®:". : V^made;iTat : £ Bridge l ': ; r-, :,' >Erver , Parret. -~Hence ■: I-- shall • never- be Ki,",to give a coldly judicial opmion. on ; ■i?,;'- merits ,-for iscouring te-'V.lof'Bath 1 bricks,;and sand-soap.- *<: -' --; ~v £; ;t;-ThQ.clingijig :magic:of : Appin: or, of Eng-, |];:,;j!land;is,--the : 'grqwth" : .ofi a i thousand' years: l ' K.V.:'® U ' : a ' rea:( iy in' this .- "land . without.. a FI&? has begun. ■Writes '.Mr. . Arthur, tegJ^Wams,;^in ; AustraHa^.i : fi ;-;;- |Vi'. • ."My: heart iookis home, '.]i looks" hom'oi feg:te« ji: The, iWindy City ■of -the •, Straits."' ■ But'- :when ;-he .pToceeds - to" -justify : his heart by; setting..uji an-; elaborate coiiB:::: : ,.;:trasfc and Australia, that the sentimientisnot E:V>;,strong i:enough ,to ', ;be i- 'independent; of pgV;scmiic,'.'aM; cUmatic.:;meriis:;: j |;-, - ~Wilcor'6 'lines, ,"In London,'-' -are, open ®«:.- ? criticism,',: but ,not so i this: pS' /simpkr' verse of,another -'Nei/ Zealaiider ; ■;< y,- r : .''Tor every man. his horaq, "fff'5 < And mino for me— j,-;.",';,.. • Tho. willow-watored. town'. » J , Beyond tho sea." A thousand years - hence, moro~or less, -.thft very : of -New Zealand jßCfiheiy; p--- ;' J ,:-^l; ; ,te ;loved.. -Pe<Tple : ' nowadays often, f-.SS;,; anil-- reasonably, -lament the - destruction, of, -the bush., which once clofied all .the hills ,:::aiound;,;,Wellingtoh. -So, ' jierhaps, ; did j--.r.;.- prehistoric .-lovers ,of. the picturesquo reJ>V. . gret that -the-forests had beencleared i from the mountain cades around Athens. ' Yet-Mr.; Hoiraid . Crosby -Butler, m' "The '..Story, of Athens," glories in ,tho naked-.' of tho . regiai?, - That- .is because te;.?- Aihens, I which: is' iiitellectuallj; the' Mbther |:„;' : Cify;of Eiiropo and 'America,: has '.-' Past-;. -;"Here," wnte3 -Mr.. Butler, "are of; -the.Alps,"nor the' swelling; wave-like j, ;curye3 .of .wooded - mountain'; ranges;, but ' Biniple,-: lines of;: dignified : repose, . typical ■ I®!; of, : the'. Greek. temperament, as if' drawn by the hiind of an. Attic-master." ' I/- .''-:-. Some day, perhaps, another : scholar |;',.','"3»ill_write like : that-,about 'WcllinKtoiL,