Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 226, 27 July 1912 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SLN-TEL.EGRAM. SATURDAY JULY 27, 1912.

BENEFITS FORGOT

This Would Apply to Mrs. D. M. Jordan, Whose Poetic Gifts Were Lent to Her Townspeople, but Who Lies in a Neglected Grave.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "Benefits forgot." This column has animadverted upon this before, more than once perhaps. "What do you mean by 'animadvert?'" asked the inquiring one. "In our celebrated vernacular. 'ring the changes, " murmured the cynic. It is true, however, that 'beneits forBot' is the epitaph of the joy of living. If benefits were not forgot half the misery of the world would be wiped off the slate. For to "benefits forgot" can be attributed almost every form of unhappiness, and to it can be traced half of the ordinary or extraordinary crimes. And, in one of its phases, is "sadder than rain-drops on a grave." These "remarks",, are called into being by an entertaining communication from Mr, Isaac Kline, formerly resident here, founder of "The Evening Item," and once its sole proprietor and editor, an excerpt, referring to Mrs. D. M. Jordan, the poetic writer, and others, being quoted herewith: "The last time I was in Richmond I went to Mrs. Jordan's grave in Earl-

ham. I saw its neglected condition, a pitiful little monument over a neglected and forgotten grave and I thought by myself a little. "I thought of the times she was still on earth and could do things; when she was the best known citizen of the place, full of talent, which, if applied to its proper field would have made of her another Helen Hunt Jackson; how her love of family and home friends was such ' that she used her great talent up in just saying beautiful things about the people round her i her neighbors and her home people ; how that never was there a merrymaking, a church sociable even, a wedding, a birth or a death, that was not sanctified by a pretty mention from ,her pencil. "Yet there she lies, neglected, fori gotten , by people she helped make hap:py andaa far great as they had the capacityof becoming. "I also saw the graves of neglected ) genius everywhere. Of Wilson D. Schooley, a crank with ideas so far ahead of bis time and his town, that his connection with them will never be re-called until those ideas become actualities and thus will throw some lustre upon the town he honored by starving to death in; starved to death 1y lack of appreciation. "If you will look in the files of the Indianapolis Journal along In 1878 you will find that the present system of engraving in half-tone, by which every book and magazine is now Illustrated, was invented in Richmond and finally given to the world free because no one with all the -wealth there is in Richmond would assist in perfecting It." True. Especially of Mrs. Jordan. 4 Her single slender volume of verse

may be found in the library under the title of "Rosemary Leaves."

And its perusal induces a certain

melancholy.

For it is melancholy the "welt

schmerz" which like a sombre thread, is woven into the fabric of her verse

now obscured under some brilliant metaphoric figure, now itself within

the vision and formed into neutral !

tinted patterns. Mrs. Jordan had a facile literary gift a flowing lyric expression tempered by technical considerations and accentuated by a clairvoyant feeling for color. Nature appealed to her powerfully, magnetically, subtlely, occultly. Her temperamental moods were swayed by those of the former. But through all her poetic product runs the sad undertone of the futility, the fatuousness, the final vacuity of life; its cruelties, its remolessness, its contrasts and its. never ending sadness. The sadness that sears the soul and, like her - famous confrere's "bird of evil omen," ever cries "never-more." As Mr. Kline well says her poetic art should have had a bigger canvas, her gifts a wider field for exploitation. She was one of those big and gener

ous souls upon whom the "terrible little people" prey. Whose good red blood is sucked from its sources by the human vampires that close in on their quarry. Who waste their incomparable time frittering away at other's inconsequential affairs. Who spend their exquisite substance in the forwarding of the interests of those who have no claim upon their time or personality. Many of the poems found in "Rosemary" are tinged with the color of the season and its psychic effect, are

frankly descriptive of the changing months and display a certain fatalistic tendency. Heard in "A "Winter Vision," which reads: Today, in thoughtful mood, I- walked Within the forest dull and brown, Whose leafless trees like sentries stand Beyond the borders of the town. No sign of life was in the air The grave is not more cold and rustle of sweet summer leaves. Nor any song of bird or rill. Only dumb silence over all Kept watch and ward, with soulless tread. Waiting for folded buds to break In resurrection from the dead. Whence came the presence all unseen;

The flood of memories, sad and sweet; Of fancied scent of violets blue, When none were blooming near my feet?

How shall I know what hidden cord By some mysterious hand was swept, To stir my inmost being through With mesnories which so long had slept With memories which I thought were dead, " And buried beyond reach of pain; And grief, whose bitterness once drained, I never hought to taste again. Grief never dies, but grows a part Of the strong soul from day to day. At first by outward signs 'tis moved. But slow and sure it learns the way. And surely learns how weak and slight Are outward holds, and how alone. Aye, even from the help of heaven, Its bitterness is all its own. Mrs. Jordan's muse is at its highest expression, because more impersonal, in "To Poesy" an apostrophe to her Art, which begins:

With reverent steps I come and lowbowed head. To the charmed presence of my bright Ideal, Who sits enthroned in the sweet realm of song A queen of fancy, beautiful and real

As ever yet inspired the tuneful lays Of wandering minstrel in the courtly ' days. In "The Days That Are Dead." Mrs. Jordan strikes a chord of universal response, the appended verse being full of apt and charming metaphors: Afar o'er the hill-tops the day robed in splendor, Comes forth like a queen from the realm of the sun. And the valleys uplift the white veil of their slumber , To welcome the dawn of a day just begun. The dewspangled lawn and the glittering forest Drop gems at my feet and o'er-jewel my head; But I long for the freshness and joy of the mornings; That came with the beautiful days that are dead.

"A Year and a Day" like lyric quality

has a Herrick-

My beautiful May 'Tis a year and a day

Since my love and I went out together With hearts as light As the day was bright. And hand in hand in the sweet spring weather. Mr. Kline's reference to Mrs. Jordan's neglected grave suggests an initiative for some organization of this city. Why should not the women of the town inaugurate a movement to put a suitable monument over this poet's grave? In so doing they could not honor themselves more fittingly.

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