"... of old, poetry was a consecration and an obloquy to all hapless modes of human life; but in a bantering, barren, and prosaic, heartless age, Aurora's music-moan is lost among our drifting sands, which whelm alike the monument and the dirge."
"Scenes Beyond the Western Border," Southern Literary Messenger (August 1853), 461:
C. "Ah! no bantering now—there is a dreamy art of more pretension still;—that would paint the heart;—that would fix the wandering thought;—that would delve for discoveries in the deep mine of man's nature!
"But I have been writing, Frank, something for your especial approval; I have been setting forth grim realities,—and most philosophically. I did strike at last, but most naturally and truly, a little vein of—"
F. "—Poetry, perhaps? by the merest accident in the world."
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