Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-07-09
CLARKsBuRG, FRIDAY, JULY .. 1885,

CLARKsBURG, FRIDAY, JULY o, 1885,
~ Rev. E.W. sehon. D. D.. will
preach in the Southern Methodist church
next Sabbath at II o'clock. 80
re For the Register.
The Lumberport Bard fseceiveth a RAJ
king. -..a..,.
| He draweth ont tho thread of his verbosity
Finer than the staple of his argument.
[sHAKsPEARE.
MEssRs. EDlToRs: h 5 @ a
There are good many persons-and
the Register numbers some among its
readels-who seemito think they have a
{" call (" to write. Some who have scarce
ly broken from their leading strings, seem
TO imagine that their puerie efforts will
greatly benefit and enlighten the intelli.
gent public, and rebound somewhat to
their youthful fame. They have studied
SynLax and written " Compositions" till
they are unspeakably full oil literary ideas;
which, like bad molasses in a jug, on a
hot day, begin to eferyesce and bubble.
and must somehow or other find way
out. BIZ s.ttr 81 gfs Isiga
Some such individual has received q
"call ITO write poetry (?) and has fa-
vored , the public with production in
the Register OF the 18th inst The subject
Of this piece is The Rose;" but the bard
does not condescend TO inform his rea>
ders whether it is an apostrophe. an ode.
or trayesty-most probably the latter.
He has evidently expended vast amount
Ia hOr on fhpsa IhaU n ra
deliberately finished. They have been
touched, re touched and touched again
by The facile pen of this surprising genius.
Days of labor and sleepless nights have
contributed to their splendor Of diction d
faultless elegance. Doubtless. the dili-
gence of Pope and the lofty imagination Of
Milton have been eclipsed by this youthful
bard. True he has confined the soarings
of his fancy to the regions Of a rose /; but
a talent like his may may exalt even a
rose to the loftiest realm of imaginative
existence. f
Fancy the feelings Of the youthful bard
when he looked for the last time on the
offspring Of his intellectual throes. Soon
his name would be associated with old
Homer and Ossian, while the feeble lights
of Dryden and Byron would burn dim in
the efulgence OF his superior fame.
The bard begins this Intellectual feas,
and flow of soul by addressing the Rose
" Thou beautiful rose, thou fairest of flowers,
The belle of the valein the bright summer hours.
Was it possible to select a more hack
MED phrase !? Take up any volume o.
poems, even magazine or newspaper
and you will find scores ofverses substan'
TALLY the same. In nineteen cases Of
twenty, perhaps. 6oa0ers. instead o.
hours +" would be rhymed with &" flow
ers;" and even here the bard might have
employed it without materially injuring
the sense. should accuse the bard o
sacrificing sense to sound, If it were MOI
for the suspicion that he had very little tc
sacrifice.
"'Tis pleasant for one to linger awhile
On thy beautiful, bright, and gay summer smile.
Now, the idea of a man lingering on E
smile is absurd, and. on the smile of {
rose, perfectly ridiculous. Even if it were
possible for rose to have a smile, anC
Tor person to linger on it, it is hardly
necessary to designate it as a " suname,
smile,' since it could be OF no other kind
But we are presented by the bard with
the idea of the smile of rose taking {
tangible shape and substance. and sen
limental young simpleton sitting up on it
and lingering because he is too lazy tc
climb down. and afraid to jump for feal
OF fractured limbs. Won't young Yirgi
give US another specimen? Give your
fancy "sea room;" then let it spread, anc
show US what you can do.
What flower in nature moro pleasing than the,
} That covers the valley or shadows the sea ~
Emphatically. none But unfortu'
nately for this rhyme. the rules Of Eng
lish grammar, as expounded by very good
authorities. require "thou" instead o.
"thee in the first of the preceding lines
That confounded syntax frequently spoil:
excellent rhvmes But the idea contain
ed in the next line is sublime one.-
Come. valleys of the Amszon and of the
Mississippi. and nestle under the leaves
of this wide>spreading Rose And thou,
puny Ocean, come and repose in the sha
dow of this extensive posy However,
for the sake of the rhyme and measure,
would suggest a substitute, rhyming with
"thou," for the last line .
1haG covers the plg-pen ana shades the OLD
sow." Ha -a#. ..
This would add greatly to the force Of
expression. and would some what improve
the sense.
None purer, none fairer, none sweeter than thee
Romans in the garden or valley to see.'
Shade of Liudley Murray ! forgive thy
lowly follower; he knows not what he
does. Alas for the bard, that abomina-
BILE grammar comes in and spoils another
rhyme. As he may at some future day
publish his illusions and want something