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His life knew few of the gentler touches. He gave it to the plains, where so many lives went, unhonored and unsung, into the building of an enduring empire. We would have included him in all the frolic of that wonderful week in the Moon of the Peach Blossom but he gave us no opportunity to do so. And we were young, and the society of girls was a revelation to us.
But on the color-flooded shore stood two, blind to the purple, the scarlet, the gold, blind to all else save the tense straining of the other's eyes; deaf to nature's unsung anthem, hearing only the other's voice. Cragstone stood transfixed with consternation.
So much we suffered from the tribe I hate, So near they shoved us to the brink of fate, When two long months in these dark hulks we lay, Barred down by night, and fainting all the day, In the fierce fervors of the solar beam Cooled by no breeze on Hudson's mountain stream, That not unsung these threescore days shall fall To black oblivion that would cover all.
Had not Homer turned his lofty lyre, observes the elegant Cicero, the valor of Achilles had remained unsung.
She might begin with "Margaret" and "Norma," if she liked, for in singing these popular operas she would acquire the whole of her voice, and also the great reputation which should precede and herald the final stage of her career. "Isolde," "Brunnhilde," "Kundry," Wagner's finest works, had remained unsung they en merely howled. Evelyn should be the first to sing them.
By quarter-past six every one's search had been successful except Rob's. "It would take a Christopher Columbus to find this place," he said, scowling at his verse. "And I'd be willing to bet anything that it isn't the bank that Shakespeare had in mind. Give me a hint, Lloyd." He held out the card: "I know a bank where the wild thyme grows. Unseen it lies, unsung by bard.
But the immortal songs which remain unsung, the exquisite idyls which gasp for words, the bewildering and restless imagery which seeks in vain the eternal repose of marble or of canvas, while these confess the affectionate and divine desires of humanity, they prove how few there are to whom it is given to learn the great lesson of Creation.
His voice no more is heard; And his dead name that dear familiar word Lies on our lips unstirred. He spake with poet's tongue; Living, for him the minstrel's lyre was strung: He shall not die unsung! Grief tried his love, and pain; And the long bondage of his martyr-chain Vexed his sweet soul, in vain!
I would like to tell of his career, but alas, of him history is silent, save that he was heir to some of his father's proclivities, grew up, became an army officer and passed into obscurity in middle life, dishonored and unsung. Such a widow as the Baroness von Hollwede is not apt to mourn for long. She was courted by many, but it was Major Humboldt who found favor in her heart.
Unlike her fellow-disciples, whose exploits remained, for the most part unknown, and unsung by their contemporaries in foreign lands, the fame of this immortal woman was noised abroad, and traveling with remarkable swiftness as far as the capitals of Western Europe, aroused the enthusiastic admiration and evoked the ardent praise of men and women of divers nationalities, callings and cultures.
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