Part 28 (1/2)
As to that essay of azine, August 1842, long before the Patent Aerial Company started their projects, and very rafted it in his work on Flying; the Duke of Argyll in a note beforenature as the true one; a Signor Ignazio of Milan in 1877 adopted aled frowheelbarroas soton: whilst in the _Daily Telegraph_ for July 10, 1874, you will find recorded the unti Man, who unhappily perished at Creht of 5000 feet All these are on record
Extract froe and Travel_
”All of us have within us the wandering Crusoe spirit; We come of Norse sea-rovers, and adventurers full of hope: And man was bade to tame his earth, to rule it and subdue it,-- Whereby our feet-soles tingle at an untrod Alpine peak-- But shall we not fly anon ings, to sha paces, Even as steam hath worked all speed on land and sea before?
Is not this fire, Which man must conquer duteously, as first his Maker willed?
There needeth but a lighter gas, well-tutored to our skill, The springing spirit to some shape of delicate steel and silk,-- A bird-like frauotten, to be found anew!
When shall the che essence To make the lord of earth but equal to his many sparrows?
When will discovery help us to such conquest of the air, And teach us swifter travel than our creeps by land and water?”
And finally from my ”Three Hundred Sonnets” hear Sonnet No 189--
”_Spirit_”
”Throw , The hurricane is raging fierce and high, My spirit pants, and all in heat I long To fly right upward to a purer sky, And spurn the clouds beneathby; Lo thus, into the buoyant air I leap Confident and exulting, at a bound Swifter than inds happily to sweep On fiery wing the reeling world around: Off with my fetters!--who shall hold 's sudden track O'er the blue concave of the fathomless deep,-- O that I thus could conquer space and tith subliave a second lecture, one on Luther, at the same place, and on the like solicitation of Mr Le Fevre, President of the Balloon Society; the date being November 9, 1883
Of this lecture, not to be tedious, I will here give only the peroration
”And now, in conclusion, let us answer these reasonable questions: What has Martin Luther done and suffered that we at this distant interval of four centuries should reverence his ratitude and admiration? What was the lifework he was raised up to do, and how did he do it? and what influence have his labours of old on the times in which we live?--We must remember that in the sixteenth century priestcraft had culht of fraud, cruelty, vice, and superstition: the lay-folk everywhere were its serfs and victims, not to mention also numbers of the worthier clerics who hated but could, not break their bonds Luther was the solitary champion to head and lead both the remonstrant layh forlorn hope of cohold: Luther broke those chains for ever off the necks of groaning nations,--freeing to this day froe not alone Gerland, but the very ends of the earth froies of Luther nearly four hundred years ago, and the living spirit of Luther working in us noe should be still in our own persons adding to the Book of Martyrs in the flanorance, with the Bible everywhere forbidden, and scientific research conde slaves at the feet of confessors who fraudulently sell absolution for money, still both spiritually and politically the mean vassals of an Italian priest instead of brave freeh, extinguished laloriously to this hour: Luther refreshed the gospel salt that had through corruption lost its savour, until now it isthan ever as the quickener of good: Luther, under God's good grace and providence, has rescued the conscience and reason of our whole race from the thraldom of self-elected spiritual despots, orked upon the superstitious fears of then their oer in this: Luther, for the result of his great labours, is more to us now than ever was the fabulous Hercules of old,--for he has cleansed the real Augaean stable,--more than any mythical Willia liberty, more to us than a whole army of so-called heroes in conquest, patriotisht and vanquished were our spiritual foes,--the country he opened to us is the heavenly one,--the good-doing, he inaugurated is wide as the world, and shi+nes an electric universal threefold light of faith, hope, and charity”
_Luther_
_Written by request, for the four-hundredth anniversary of his birth_
”Martin Luther! deathless name, noblest on the scroll of Fame, Solitary monk,--that shook All the world by God's own book; Antichrist's Davidian foe, Strong to lay Goliath low, Thee, in thy four-hundredth year, Gladly we remember here
”Hoithout thy forceful mind, Now had fared all human kind,-- Curst and scorch'd and chain'd by Rome, In each heart of hearth and hoht, and British power, With Columbia's faith and hope, All were crush'd beneath the Pope!
”God be thank'd for this bright morn, When Eisleben's babe was born!
For the pious peasant's son, Liberty's great fight hath won,-- When at Wittenberg he stood All alone for God and good, And his Bible flew unfurl'd, Flag of freedoer set this to excellent music; and it was translated for Continental use into Gerarian in the sanate subject here shall be added my ballad on Wycliffe, also written by request:--
_Wycliffe_
”Distant beacon on the night Full five centuries ago,-- Harbinger of Luther's light, Now four hundred years aglow,-- Priest of Lutterworth we see All of Luther-worth in thee!
”Lo, the wondrous parallel,-- Both gave Bibles to their land; While, the rage of Rome to quell, Princes stood on either hand, John of Gaunt, and Saxon John, Cheered each bold confessor on