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They say that horror is at your hand, That doubt and terror surround your breast ; Ah e not , Mother, th y can understand ; — I . laugh at them, Mother you carry rest And when my brain is too tired to think , And s when my eye are too weary to weep , I grope for your hand in the dark , and sink My head on your bosom and go to sleep . T MARY PINKER ON . 4 THE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE dt bz poet 19m m In the hush of the Valley of Silence I dre am all the songs that I sing ; And the the music floats down dim valley, Till each finds a word for a wing, e s the That to h art , like the Dove of Deluge , ” A mes sage Of peace the y may bring . R Of his s Thus simply does Father yan, in one ver es, s c harac terize his own writing . His poems come to us like “ s his dream from that mysterious valley , Trysting Place ” “ the e e a s h e with Divin , writt n down at random , says in “ e i s s the prefac to his works, w th little tudy and le s art, and ” “ Y t h a s always in a hurry . e the Thoughts he seen in the ” e valley have stirred our spirits also . Truly do th y W e c ear holy veils on th ir fa es , The ir footste ps can scarcely be heard s They pa s thru the valley like virgins , ” Too pure for the touch of a word ! The following e xtract from a letter he received from Longfellow shows in what e stee m that poet he ld him “ I have read enough of your poetry to s e e the fervor of e s the od feeling and xpres ion with which you write, and mel y e . s e e of your v rse Of cour e, you will hardly xp ct me to ‘ ’ sympathize with all th e vers e c onnecte d with the war ; yet in s ome of it I recognize a profound pathos and the infinite pity of it all . “ — ‘ P . S . When you call yourself the last and least of those ’ e e the e s who rhym , you r mind me of grac ful line of Catullus to Cicero : THE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 5 Gratias tibi maximas , Catullus , A e ss im u s git p omnium poeta , e s s im u s Tanto p omnium poeta, n ’ Quanto tu pe s s im u s omnium pa t ro u s . Last and least’ can no more be applied to you than thi s ” to Catullus . ’ Father Ryan s poe ms clearly reflec t the main phases Of : his life the suggestion of romance in early youth, the e passionat feeling of army days , the deeply religious spirit Of his e career as priest, and the myst rious melancholy that pe rvaded his whole life . The date and place of his birth are still a subj ect of dispute, e but it is probable , from a comparison of the most reliabl r Va . sources , that he was bo n in Norfolk, , about the year 1 839 . hi to While still a c ld, he went with his parents . re St Louis, where be ceived most of his early training from is the Brothers of the Christian schools . This probably the p e riod Of his life into which came the romance whi ch forms “ his e S R the basis of long narrative po m, Their tory unneth ” Thus . He was deeply in love with a young lady and she with him, but they formed a mutual agreement that she c e . should enter a onvent , and he become a pri st Our loves must soar aloft to spheres divine ; The an no r m e hum satisfies nor you , SO s let our spirits be espou ed in God , An d let our wedloc k be as soul to son] ; And s prayer hall be the golden marriage ring, ” An d God will bles s us both . m a This romance, we y Imagine, is the one bright memo ry “ ” ’ that flashes a radiance over his pathway . Ethel s is per “ ” “ haps the Heart, the Face, and the Name that the fading 6 THE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE ” fi reli ht s g paint , for him, with a pencil of flame and “ ” “ hers the voice from the far land that makes him look up ” - to the star land and pray that he soon may be there . e e Le aving St . Louis he ntered the ecclesiastical s minary Y A e . of Our Lady of the ng ls at Niagara, N , and from At there was ordained to the priesthood . the outbreak of h e a the c ivil war entered the confeder te army as chaplain, and he a rd with his ow n ears ’ — Th e orphans cry the terrible undertone ’ ’ And the fathers curse and the mothers sigh, ’ And the des olate young wife s moan h e s the e Justly does de erve titl , The Poet Laureate of ” “ ” t h e e B e e Lost Caus , The Conquer d ann r being one of S s his his best works . O trong was feeling that it was not the e e e e c Of 1 878 until after y llow fev r pid mi , that he became “R ” fully reconc iled to conditions and wrote his eunited .