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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: APRIL 10, 1877.
Longfellow and the Sea.
The sea is a special favorite with
modern poets. Byron and Shelley
discovered it; Heine took it into his
confidence, and told to it the story
of liis loves; Wordsworth used it to
point a moral; Barry Cornwall wrote
of it dashingly, and with quite the
most cockncyfied of sailorly airs and
raptures. Living lyrists worship the
ocean, each after his fashion. Tens
nyson looks at it, describes k, strikes
out of it an undying note of passion,
or yearning, or regret. Swinburne
gets druuk with the wind, and sound,
and scent of it, and raves of it with
toe passionate incolverence peculiar to
him. Morris has been taken with
the manner of its melancholy, and in
his verse there is soinethii g of its
mvstcry, and vagueness, and unutter
able sadness. Browning loves it,
too, in his way, but he uses it as an
algebraical quantity ; while Matthew
Arnold is too anxious to be phiIo«
sophical to ‘.eel the true spirit of the
sea lover. As for Victor Hugo, he
has taken it under his special protec
tion, and has uttered such lofty things
over it as but rarely proceeds from
human lips; the sound of it is the
note of consolation running through
the grief, irony, and despair of the
Chatiments ; and if he has tried to
confine it withiu the walls of a thea
tre in £es Travailleurs de la Mer,
and has written sublime nonsense
about it in I?Homme qui Hit. to him
who sang Le » hunt de Ceux qui e'en
Vont par la 3Icr and the blast ot the
seawind blowing in its trump, much
may be forgiven. It seems to us,
however, that of all those who have
written of the sea, none lias seized
a'd repr< dueed so much of the ele
ment in it most akin to humanity as
Longfellow.
Long ago the American m ster
read the sweet old Spanish ballad of
the Count Amaldos, and read it
aright. The stately galley, with sails
of sandal and masts of gold, steered
by the mariner who sang that wild
and wondrous soqg, bore him sea
ward, and he returned with some
thing of the sea’s secret—the secret
told to none who would not sail the
water for themselves. And this note
of fascination, of irresistahlc attrac
tion, he strikes in all his later work,
with a strange and unvarying precis
ion. In “ The Building of the Ship,”
in the stoi y of “ Othere, the Old Sea
Captain,” in the “Saga of King
Olaf,” in the beautiful verses ad
dressed to his old home, in many
another, there are passages as full of
the “ rush and roar of ocean” as have
ever been written. The sea, in its
relation to ships and sailors, is beau
tiful and comprehensible to him; he
loves it, he speaks of it; and in his
verses the cordage creaks, the sail
swells, there is a smell of pine-wood
and a smell of tar, you catch the
wind in your face, and old shipmen,
with white eyeballs and bronzed
faces, with silver rings, gaudy hand
kerchiefs, tell ydiTstrange legends ol
the Spanish Main. Whether the
-story be that of Sir Humphrey Gil
bert, or that ot Simon Danz, the im
pression is always the same—vivid
and real, full of sea foam and sea
savors. He is the poet of ships, the
singer pur excellence of the deep and
its dangerous charm. He does not
abide in the waste places of the world
of waters, like Victor Hugo; he does
not wandtr, and gaze, and think,
like Alfred Tennyson ; he does not
reel and shriek, like Algernon Swin
burne. He lives in a seaport; he
goes down to the docks, and dreams
over the ships; he hears the sailors
talking; he sees the chips flying un
der the shipwright’s adze, the pitch
bubbling and smoking in the ship
wright’s cauldron. And he falls to
singing his variations on the ballad
of Count Amaldos, and the world
listens, for the heart of the world
goes with him.
Between the Longfellow of the
ateliers and the Longfellow of the
tea-tables, there is a great space of
very habitable land for the lover of
poetry. The other day we were
strolling vaguely about in this space,
when we encountered Simon Danz
the Buccaneer, who was wearying of
his long-shore life, and anxious to be
off again—
“ To capture another Bean of Jaen,
And aell him in Algiees.”
And having listened with delight
totiie old pirate’s yarn, we came to
the conclusion that in many things,
and in this of sailors and the sea
above all, Longfellow stands on his
own ground, owes nothing to Goethe
or Heine, and is not equalled by a
living singer.
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FROM CODE OF GEORGIA.
§ 839. (835.) In case of false
turn, Tax -Receiver to assess value.
Each return shall he scrutinized care
fully by the Tax Receiver, and in his
judgment he shall find the property
embraced in the return, or any por
tion of it, returned below its value,
he shall assess the value at once,
or within thirty days thereafter.
§840. (836.) Subsequent proceed
ings. If such assessment is not made
by the Receiver instauter, he shall
give the tax payer notice of his as
sessment, and in either case it shall
he the tax payer’s privilege to have
it left to throe disinterested persons,
one of whom lie shall select, the
other Shall he selected by the Re
ceiver, and these two shall select a
third; if they disagree, a majority of
whom shall fix the assessment.
§ 841. (837.) Property returned
below its value. It is the privilege
of any tax payer of the county where
a return is made to complain to the
Receiver at any time before his Ei
gest is completed that any return is
below the true value of the property;
in which case he shall notify the per
son who made the return complained
of, if practicable, verbally or by
writing, giving him the name of com*
plainant and the ground of complaint,
and shall proceed to have a new as
sessment in the terms of the preceed-
ing section.
§842. (838 ) Oath of Assessors.
Whenever such assessors are called
in, they shall take an oath before the
Receiver to do justice between the
parties at variance, touching the true
assessment of the tax return.
§ 842. (839.) Defaulting tax payer,
how relieved. When a tax payer has
been returned as a defaulter and
double taxed, either by the Receiver
or Collector, the Ordinary is autho.-
ized to relieve the defaulter of the
penalty for default at the time said
Ordinary allows the Collector his in
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tax payer shows to such Ordinary by
satisfactory evidence, that either
from providential or other good
cause he had not an opportunity to
make his return to the Receiver of
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release promptly pays his proper
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as his fee, the Collector shall prompt
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such release, and the amount of taxes
paid.
§ 844. (840.) Defaulter, how re
lieved from double tax. All defaul
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same causes, before the Digest is
made up and ready to he sent to the
Comptroller, save the double tax by
likewise giving in to the Ordinary,
and paying him one dollar, who shall
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to the Receiver, and lie shall enter it
in the several Digests.
§ 845. (841.) Defaulter's Oath.
The Ordinary, in the cases set forth
in sections 843 and 844, shall require
the tax payer to swear to the cause
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W. L. Goddsmith,
Comptroller General.
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