The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-04
Pnaff1ing.

Tne attentive perusal of, rural ex-l
changes is frequently rewarded q by
rich discoveries. Is Witness the follow
ing which we clip from an original
poem contributed to the columns of
the Bloomington Republican. !. Slia.
All men shousd bescautious Of John Alec,
or IN bis embraces perhaps they may
He win tiatter theyouth, and deceive raen
Iffn his service they ever engage; Fsin19oi
To John Alcohol we never should bow,
But always prove true to our Temperance
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1T is a pity that So much truth
should be Disguised. almost beyond
recognition, in such an execrable at
tempt at poetry 4 i i 800
Rural editors, however, do not en-.
joy a monopoly of such : faTors.9
These adoleseente offerings on the
shrine of the MUSES. frequently find
their way,to the Offices of city dsilies-
Our own sanctnm has recently suf-
fered under such an invasion, and
our table oscillates between laugh
and groan beneath the accommodating
pile. ..... sse .rs7Iia-Fg i -df.
Miss JENNY sends us twenty verses.
from which, in order to CRAFTY her
ambitious wish to see herself "in
print, we selectthe first and the best
of the score: 31ieH @iil.
Think not, my dear, this heart of mine -.
Can e'er to thee prove tickle. !. flaslIsa
Ny loves the good old fashioned coin, 70
And not the modern nickel.
Miss JENNY T is the victim of one
of the many delusions which haunt
the minds of young people of both
sexes at a certain stage of life which
we,may term the romantic period. .s
Some one has said that the three
inevitable diseases of youth are
measles. whooping cough, and first
love. He should have made quar-
tette of these ailments by adding the
poetic mania. With this our fair cor
respondent is, just now, severely
smitten, but not to such an extent as
to preclude the hope of an early con-
valescenceg VI fT 90 I'd = q
So long as these offerings are con-
fined to the charitable criticism of
.indulgent friends, no particular harm
is done, beyond the fostering of I"
fond conceit to be rudely dispelled in
after years by the cold sneers of less.
charitable critics.
A disconsolate swain, who writes
over the tear suggestive name of
JEREMIAH, sends us, duplicate OF
lachrymose efusion, the original of
which must have !, been more than
penetrating to the obdurate heart-of
even his faithless Dulc.iinea. ile'6 w
Listen to the parting song which
the pangs of unrequited love have
wrung from the soul of this not very
'muteld lbptl sufficiently r ingloriols
MILToN:" .1Hof W82 ga
: Alden, false one, I shake thy parting
NJ hand, .s.1r
For love of thee quit my native land,
leave my home, my friends and kindred
To meet what Ills a wanderer may be-
faII.r ~ llo1I0 G5aA <o19Elvcl 80
q leave the happy home where I was
Z born srt si NAfe
For, oh, feel my occupati on's gone;
And doubly cruel is the blow that kills,
Dealt by thy hand false-hearted Susan
Mills" /
But it is too often the case with /
these embryo BYRoNs and Brown
INGs, that an insatiate thirst for lit
erary Immortality, prompts them to
infict on an editor what should have
been perpetrated only on sweetheart
or lover.
= Sometimes the poetic mania seizes
those who have passed the freakish
bounds of youth" and who might be
supposed to have seen enough Of the
rough realities Of life to eyaporate all
sentiment from their mental makeup.
A case Of, this sort is presented by
forlorn widow, who excites our COM
miseration by "a wall" not, as the
unsophisticated might imagine, &over
the loss of the dear defunct," for
she has too much philosophy to cry
for a tactical spill; but she lifts her
voice in rhythmic lamentation that
the place of the departed is still
a9pe.s 4 ~ -
"I've peaked and pinned for two long years;
I've shed flood of bitter tears,
And nursed Thousand gloomy fears zefi'l
Z ia In lonely, widowed state. = Il
OF all the sons of Adams race -
Is there pot one endowed with grace Il