Too Late Too Late A Poem On Letting Time Slip By
A reflective poem laments waking too slowly to opportunities and duties. It contrasts dawn and effort with regret and social neglect, urging timely prayer aid labor and action before it is too late.
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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1872
Page
3
A reflective poem laments waking too slowly to opportunities and duties. It contrasts dawn and effort with regret and social neglect, urging timely prayer aid labor and action before it is too late.
A devotional verse fragment describes faith as taking the lowest place and divine guidance through trials. It envisions Christ meeting the faithful in the depths and supplying spiritual sustenance as heavenly homes are prepared for those who believe.
A mosaic of oddities and notices from a bygone era includes a tale of a woman prompting men to eat, a Boston tannery report, Idaho merchants moving to greenback payments, and remarks on Iwans extinction. It notes deaths and tributes from Theophilus L. Houghton to Colonel John F. Deane, with quirky anecdotes on fashion, health cures, and a mischievous child’s diphtheria case.
The piece muses on naming trends from scientific taxonomy to baby names. It contrasts old classics with modern coinages and diminutives, warning against whimsical or overlaid labels that burden the newborn. It cites poetically the shift from Latin nomenclature to playful overstatements.
A report outlines attempts by the Brazilian Emperor to mediate reconciliation with the Pope and Italian King Victor Emmanuel. The Pope rejects the cab scheme and notes Don Pedro d Alcantara’s role, while the Emperor acts on his own initiative. The piece also touches Thiers’s views on French policy and a Berlin workingman’s plight with rising costs.
An 19th century notice recounts a couple from Lotteville married in Jeffersonville under pressure. The groom, pressed by the lady’s relatives with pistols, consented to wed then fled the next day, while the father plans to seek a divorce as the groom is underage.
Hartie McCoy Norn argues the wife guides the home offers higher life and culture than a law focused career. The piece contrasts domestic refinement with legal grind while noting Duke Alexis reaction to Boston Committee invitation and Russian tongue translation. Galveston hosts a medical college and a new hospital in full operation.
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