And what I most desired should come to pass, Who, Sappho, does thee wrong? "For if she flee, she quickly shall pursue; If gifts she take not, gifts she yet shall bring; And if she love not, love shall thrill her through, Though strongly combating." Then come to me even now, and set me free TO THE BELOVED. I HOLD him as the gods above, The man who sits before thy feet, Thou smiledst: like a timid bird My heart cowered fluttering in its place. My tongue was broken; 'neath my skin And with my eyes I could not see; And then I feel the cold sweat pour, EPES SARGENT. SARGENT, EPES, an American journalist, critic, and miscellaneous writer; born at Gloucester, Mass., September 27, 1813; died at Roxbury, Mass., December 31, 1880. He wrote several dramas: "The Bride of Genoa" (1836); "Velasco" (1837); "Change Makes Change," and "The Priestess." Among his other works are: "Wealth and Worth" (1840); "Fleetwood," a novel (1845); "Songs of the Sea, and other Poems" (1847); "Arctic Adventure by Sea and Land" (1857); "Peculiar " (1863); "The Woman Who Dared," and "Planchette," a work relating to Spiritualism (1869). His series of school-books is well known to the American schoolboy, and consists of several sets of Speakers, Readers and Spellingbooks. The "Standard Speaker" is probably the most popular work of the kind in the country. Mr. Sargent also wrote a "Life of Henry Clay," and a "Memoir of Benjamin Franklin." Among Mr. Sargent's strictly original works are several well-known songs, of which may be mentioned "A Life on the Ocean Wave;' "The Calm;" "The Gale; " "Tropical Weather." A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE. A LIFE on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, On this dull unchanging shore: Once more on the deck I stand We shoot through the sparkling foam We'll find far out on the sea. The land is no longer in view, The clouds have begun to frown; We'll say, Let the storm come down! A life on the ocean wave! WEBSTER. NIGHT of the Tomb! He has entered thy portal; In the earth where the ocean-mist weepeth, is laid. Lips, whence the voice that held Senates proceeded, Brow, like the arch that a nation's weight needed, Night of the Tomb! Through thy darkness is shining Could hide it in life or life's ending from him. Silence of Death! There were voices from heaven, That pierced to the quick ear of Faith through the gloom: The rod and the staff he asked for were given, And he followed the Saviour's own path to the tomb. Beyond it, above in an atmosphere finer, In that land of the spirit, that region diviner, MINOT JUDSON SAVAGE. SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON, an American clergyman; born at Norridgewock, Maine, June 10, 1841. He was graduated from the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1864, and was for some years pastor of a Congregational church at Hannibal, Missouri. He became a Unitarian in 1874, and from 1874 to 1896 was pastor of the Church of the Unity in Boston. Since the latter year he has been pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York City. He has long been known as an extremely radical thinker. His sermons from 1879 to 1896 have been collected in seventeen volumes entitled "Unity Pulpit." His other works include "Christianity the Science of Manhood" (1873); "Light on the Clouds" (1876); "The Religion of Evolution" (1876); "Bluffton: a Story of To-Day" (1878); "Life Questions" (1879); "The Morals of Evolution" (1880); "Talks about Jesus" (1880); "Belief in God" (1881); "Poems" (1882); "Beliefs about Man" (1882); "Beliefs about the Bible" (1883); "The Modern Sphinx" (1883); "Man, Woman, and Child" (1884); "The Religious Life" (1885); "Social Problems" (1886); "These Degenerate Days" (1887); "My Creed" (1887); "Relig ious Reconstruction;" "Psychics" (1893); "Religion for To-Day" (1897.) A DEFENCE OF UNITARIANISM. (From a Sermon Delivered in the Church of the Messiah, New York, in November, 1897.) "WHAT do you give in place of what you take away?" This question is proposed to Unitarians over and over again. It is looked upon as an unanswerable criticism. We are sup posed to be people who tear down but do not build; people who take away the dear hopes and traditional faiths of the past and leave the world desolate, without God, without hope. I propose to try to make clear what it is that the world has lost as the result of the advance of modern knowledge, and what, if anything, it has gained. |