It then displays that mind-light which
Mankind with wonder fills;

Like Day's bright king, when first his smile
Illumes the Eastern hills.

Deep into such great ideal souls
The BEAUTIFUL descends,

And ever yearning-upward aye—
Sure soar they to their ends.
As the sweet song-inspiring lark,
Of song-inspired flight,

Wings through the fresh blithe morning air,
Up to the gates of light.

At last! to see it grandly rise
Into the Heaven of thought,
With the lustrous fire of genius
Immortally o'erfraught.

And there a star serenely bright

For ever firmly rest;

Above, beyond, yet with the world,

By whom IT was opprest.

CHAPTER VI.

Those well-won bays than life itself more dear.

CREATIVE AND REPRESENTATIVE POETRY-TENNYSON AND MARY HOWITT-MAMMON-WORSHIP-THE MENTAL CHILD -THE SUFFERINGS OF MAN AND NATURE-THE SIR GILES OVERREACHES OF THE WORLD-ELLIOT.

ET us now resume our general observations upon Poetry and Poets.

Poetry may be divided under two principal or chief heads, from which spring many tributary streams, which include Dramatic, Lyric, and Heroic Poetry. The first and grandest we will term Creative Poetry, and the other Representative Poetry. The first is the finely philosophical, originally thoughtful, and highly imaginative; and the second is the truly sentimental, tenderly feeling, and richly fanciful.

The creative and original soul is obviously

the most spiritual, and the loftiest nature holding an embodied being amongst Men. The living and burning eloquence of Mind, belonging to these great valiant spirits, pours a flood of pure and glorious light throughout the world — world-elevating. Noble enthu

siasm and high aspirations, are ever a part of transcendental genius in Nature. To this first class belong our Shakspere, Milton, Dryden, Byron, and Shelley, the Dante and Tasso of Italy, and the Göthe of Germany. These are the most intense and sublime of souls, that have, with heaven-inspired existence, left a priceless mental legacy to the farthest time; whose outpourings are so high and ideally true, that, although long distant ages must rise in mental level, and gain more spiritual life and light, 'these shall continue

to act their original parts as teachers and ennoblers.

The young student of the highest and most perfect literature will ever be guided by them; and the sages of every land shall find them the props of their own wisdom. Such souls are the world's mental beacons, and they will, through all time, guide us past the black shoals in Life's sea to the glorious harbour of our promised hereafter. What a grand case of this highest type of spirit we have had in our own time in Shelley. He was a saddened being, possessing a noble enthusiasm, and a lofty unworldly soul, filled with the highest abstract aspirations. The will of true poetical genius, and the force of individuality are such, that no power on earth can control or stay their might.

Creative and Representative Poetry may be combined in any one poem; but even when so combined, they are distinct in the same. production. What we mean to say is, that

although all great works possess both, and both in a large degree, still many writers have gained a universal reputation by the production of that which appeals to the heart more than to the head; of that which addresses itself only to the finer feelings and truer sentiments of our nature. This tender, pathetic, and loveable style, is by no means so high in order as the thought-wisdom of the great Poet-Priest.

Representative Poetry has, in most countries, and at all times, some one or more living examples. The observation which we made earlier in these chapters, applies particularly to this class of writers, who are often very beautiful both in style and tone, viz. : that the difference between themselves and mankind in general, is not so much in the sentiment thought, as in their peculiar power of exquisitely vivifying, and harmoniously