BULWIG'S ADVICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1003, 18 February 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

BULWIG'S ADVICE.

''Yellowp lush, 1 ' said Biilwig,"''quit riot; your presejit.qccupation s.black. boots, clean; •: knives, wear plush all your life, but don't, turn literary man,- Look-at me, lam the; • first n'ovelisfc'in Europe; "I have ranged with, eagle wings ovprtlie wide range of literature, ■ and perched on every eminence in its turn, I have gazed with eagle oyea on the sun of | Shilosophy, and' fathomed the' mysterious, epthsofJthe hnmatr mind. ■ All languagesi are familiar to mej all thbughta'aro known to j me,-ill'men., are': understood by- me. I have; gathered wisdom from the honeycombed lips of Plato, aawe wandered in the gardens of) the: academies y wisdom,\t6o, from the mouth j ■ of Job Johnson, as woiemoked ourbacky.in; the Seven Dials, Such must be the studies, j and such is the-mis3ion,,ih this'world, of the j' .poefciphilosopher.--.il- m.; r. ':■'.: 1 :, -:>\ ■ :■,■:.''. j ■: ."But : the-.knowledge ■ is lonly emptiness;! the initiation is but misery ; the: initiated a i man shunned,'and ibannediby. his .fellows, j :Woe;tdjgenius , ,i the .'Heaveu:scaler,v:the..fire i| stealer! Woo and thrice bitter desolation! Earth is the -rock; on--which- Zeus, remorse-; less, stretches his writhing victim; men the j vultures'that feed; iind: fatton: on him.; Ay, ■ ay l , it is agony eternal!-groaning: and: soli-; tary despair t And yoii, Yellowpliish, wbuldj. raisctho!awful veil,' and'stand : in tho tro-: j mendo'us'P/e'seiice, '.Beware, as you .value : , your peace, beware I 1 "' ; ' : '' : ' ,: ' :{ "''