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TITIAN’S HOUSE.
The beings of the mind are not of clay ;
Essentially immortal, they create,
And multiply in us a brighter ray,
And more beloved existence.
Childb Harold.
Genius alone has the power of conferring splendour
upon the humblest abode, the most obscure spot of earth,
and wheresoever its footsteps have been impressed becomes
hallowed ground. Too seldom indeed is intellectual ex-
altation combined with the heritage of palaces, though it
exercise the holiest and most invincible of all despotisms
—the only one to which we willingly bow—the sway of
creative and immortal mind. It would seem as if Pro-
vidence, in return for the worldly scorn and oppression
of many of its most gifted children, had endued their
memories with perpetuity of fame; an empire over the
intellect and passions of ages—over the fortunes of future
generations, interwoven with the best principles and the
loftiest hopes of humanity. Like martyrs to their re-
ligion, their glory is rarely of this life they look to a
higher guerdon, and, like the martyrs, their faith is
anchored on the foundations of imperishable truth.
It thus becomes the peculiar privilege of lofty genius
and worth to bid us pause, after passing by the gorgeous
mausoleum, the palace walls, or the battle-fields of kings
and conquerors—as we approach the shrines containing
all that was earthly of the inheritors of a purer and
The beings of the mind are not of clay ;
Essentially immortal, they create,
And multiply in us a brighter ray,
And more beloved existence.
Childb Harold.
Genius alone has the power of conferring splendour
upon the humblest abode, the most obscure spot of earth,
and wheresoever its footsteps have been impressed becomes
hallowed ground. Too seldom indeed is intellectual ex-
altation combined with the heritage of palaces, though it
exercise the holiest and most invincible of all despotisms
—the only one to which we willingly bow—the sway of
creative and immortal mind. It would seem as if Pro-
vidence, in return for the worldly scorn and oppression
of many of its most gifted children, had endued their
memories with perpetuity of fame; an empire over the
intellect and passions of ages—over the fortunes of future
generations, interwoven with the best principles and the
loftiest hopes of humanity. Like martyrs to their re-
ligion, their glory is rarely of this life they look to a
higher guerdon, and, like the martyrs, their faith is
anchored on the foundations of imperishable truth.
It thus becomes the peculiar privilege of lofty genius
and worth to bid us pause, after passing by the gorgeous
mausoleum, the palace walls, or the battle-fields of kings
and conquerors—as we approach the shrines containing
all that was earthly of the inheritors of a purer and