LONGFELLOW'S NEW POEM.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 260, 1 October 1875, Page 2

LONGFELLOW'S NEW POEM.

(Fion* tKe 'ffilk York Herald.) ' ;A Dew poe^n by Pmgfallow is always an important gveog 'in oar literature, but ? hjs S&atatnas," which we. pnct to^clajl roia tbe' fid vaaee sheets of <<J^arpec*a 31 agasrae," '' dWiv es unaaiiai i merest ," /frora^lb« 'tiunt reraary wbicb it ctJme?QQ3orases» r , Fi|^7 years ago, Mr Longfellow gratified with the famous clas* of Bowdota College, of | Nathaaie'Jlfßwehotne, Jo^ah H. Little, I Jaraef W; Bradbury, ; ffihn "& C. Ab- j Jw« r Jooettbatt ; Ctife^y B. ' Cheever, Professor J^aehaoial Dunn, [ aod other dlliiagtillhed raao . were BWmb«ie*».> JSalf <%j^p|ae£ ; if gonej, and th«rgre»«ifc?9^ flrho Sa^^r^rof-^aoj ' of his aneteat collage <Joropaaioae, is called apoo to celebrate the meociory of the past aad the reasion of those (hat reraaio. It is not etraoge that he shooia •■■ approacfi this lack with reluceaace, aad that aaolaraa fioaa "from the deep throat pt sad Melpotnaoe," shoald uoderlia the aiivery tnijsto of his verse. . .., .._ ._,,_..-. .. : ;. , ...,, <\ The idea of the poem is simple aod noble. "0, Csaiir, *o wfeo sre.ajbout to die saline you !" is the ory of pain j which echoes throughout the lioea, softeoed into aereoily by philosophic resignattoo. ,Iq their old agp, th^ poet aod his friends, ratiircad, like Ulysses and his coropaoioas, from long wander, .ings to the scenes; of, early youth, salute the grovejs and halls of academic toil. They salufa the Bikcles Qfth'eiif dear preceptors, as t)<inte ia the "Inferno" met and bowed before the iostractor of his youth. They who are about to die ealuta those who but begin to live—* the graduates who go out ioto the from the cias3oflß7s. They salute each other, these long separated comrades, who mee^dbce ao'ora only r tn separate again for ev^/ This coacep- j tion is beauiifai ia its aimpltelty, aad i^ presented whh s|reogjt|i all for its teodeniess aod pathosij^j^Bßßß Poems such as thia shoo^PHHW judged with that severity JR9^hßb given to those which \4^S^^BS imagioativa ; for tfoey^^yjjfßßßHi persooai regrets* reverence . above all aHßdoirNo^ thing that Mr LocmßKag wrctien | for - years seems fofißHp'ave come { more directly than this I beautiful lament. JBHSk9 passages I in ft a feeling I by anything Q|fl^^HßLjo!iimeß, ia which at^H^^nHH^EHfl^y^d are j . 4r»QßSgurej|^H^H|^BHft Yet io this pJJ^^HHHE^HHBb mi terrupts J^hß^^^99»B^Sb * s ioipe^M^^BHj^B^H^B^B^Kßaga * r fg&BBBBBSUBBUBB™ sees Q^H^H^sfl^B|HHp es .. p 09 * 8 ca ja B39jHH|H£^^Hpf66 be wholly ! s^sH|^H^BHHßßt PcaßselJ4^^ jxelf^is a %|ngfacel?ffb*!oy97*TaW siacerity of ife expreWo, ahaste'oed I jL*??????v ? a A S?jfcu!?? 9r - ? f» will [

endear this poem to iha countleas iiearta wbo*chQnß& Mr Loogfellow as a gaide • m all thai is aoble and pure Et la,'' more of a personal tbaa aaythiagMr LoDgfellow haa written; fprgeae-rellj-he has phdaeaVto ataod "apart frora bis arf, like a patoter behind hia picfare, ezpreasio^r, »Q poetic forma, passions, and jorrowa which appear to he his only as they are the property of all. But .fcbis majestic candour of the poe6 who ifaas growo old Sir fame ia very different from the morbid scorn with which Byron paraded his griefa before the common eye. It ia ehe farewell of ono to whom years have brought the philosophic roind, nod who, foresoeing the inevitable parting from (he earth, exclaims to all its imperial grandeurs, "O, Caaiar, wa who are about to die salute you!" It is a magnificent regref, but ;the; close is inspired with a nobler faith, and Mr Loogfellbw, doubtleas, has hiroadf proved his philosophy by wrilin? in his old age a poem which would have been impossible to him ia youth* -. ■: :-,,-.■ *' Ard as the wehin? twilight faias 5 away The afey. is fiUad with stara ioTiaible by day." {For continuation of News see Jourth page )