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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Heart of Man, by George Edward Woodberry This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Heart of Man Author: George Edward Woodberry Release Date: May 12, 2004 [EBook #12329] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEART OF MAN *** Produced by Afra Ullah, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HEART OF MAN BY GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY COPYRIGHT 1899, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 1899 "Deep in the general heart of man" --WORDSWORTH TO THE MEMORY OF EUGENE MONTGOMERY MY FRIEND DEAR WAS HIS PRAISE, AND PLEASANT 'TWERE TO ME, ON WHOSE FAR GRAVE TO-NIGHT THE DEEP SNOWS DRIFT; IT NEEDS NOT NOW; TOGETHER WE SHALL SEE HOW HIGH CHRIST'S LILIES O'ER MAN'S LAURELS LIFT February 18, 1899. PREFACE OF the papers contained in this volume "Taormina" was published in the _Century Magazine_; the others are new. The intention of the author was to illustrate how poetry, politics, and religion are the flowering of the same human spirit, and have their feeding roots in a common soil, "deep in the general heart of men." COLUMBIA COLLEGE, February 22, 1809. CONTENTS TAORMINA A NEW DEFENCE OF POETRY DEMOCRACY THE RIDE TAORMINA I What should there be in the glimmering lights of a poor fishing-village to fascinate me? Far below, a mile perhaps, I behold them in the darkness and the storm like some phosphorescence of the beach; I see the pale tossing of the surf beside them; I hear the continuous roar borne up and softened about these heights; and this is night at Taormina. There is a weirdness in the scene--the feeling without the reality of mystery; and at evening, I know not why, I cannot sleep without stepping upon the terrace or peering through the panes to see those lights. At morning the charm has flown from the shore to the further heights above me. I glance at the vast banks of southward-lying cloud that envelop Etna, like deep fog upon the ocean; and then, inevitably, my eyes seek the double summit of the Taorminian mountain, rising nigh at hand a thousand feet, almost sheer, less than half
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