The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-04-26
TIE PoET LARRYAT OF CALiFoRyI.

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\ new poet has arisen in California
| who seems to possess more of the d" fine
frenzy than all the rest of the " out
CHOPPERS put together-a perfect
revelier, in fact, in the gushing spon-
taniety of sPasmodic sublimities Of,
attic genius. he is not a " Lake >
poet, bat seems to have arisen. like
Venus, from the sea, emerging With his
Tyre from the crystal grottos of Goat
Island, from whence he pipes his soul
enslavipg strains. Here are some of
his effasions, which we .ffnd in the Ora
matte Chronicle. Says that paper:
Brother Austin of the New Age must
look to his laurels. or the new poeticaI lun-
mary who signs himself Job Skae. Poet
Larryat uv Goat Island will eclipse his
brightness. The following lines from
Sonnit Onto the Big Oke NV Oke,and,
Sitooated Onto the Place Vt the Hon. q.
". Dwinell, Corner NV I lit and Clay Streetes.
Okeland," viii give an idea of MIR. Skae's
genius
Umhrajrs m0n1rk. toweri1 to the skfzc,
o. who'd Il tlIunk a ole Of saci. a size ,
Out NV littel akorn could arize
Ion ar a buster FL not, darn my izc AMI
Charley Stpdur' kin take mi hat and {
Be Ipet larry at himself {
Tho not fit for the poZist-fur frun1 r
1t niede. :
Nur bret Hart, neither, nur no luther 8
Stuckup croputr
Tho say il tibet prars shOOitfent d
You must be l. foot round the bo!e res. &
Or prapS Is or twenty-more or less r
How proud yu look and how alniity inf ~
ges when yure cut down. yule cut M ruff n
And him tibet he z the job will git euuff :
A fore yure reduced tn kindiin stuf :.
There, we should like to see what Bro d
Justin can Go il. that vein. -
The same paper has the following:
Job Skae, the 90 Poet Larryat Nv Goat Is =
nd, has been singing the "praise. " of
lie Cow County Metropolis. in the faultless
axanleter verse of Longfellow's Evan
cline JOB thinks that Rome and Az I
ems" and sc Veniss." and all the other e
lclent cities renowned in song and story, qr
a1e not circumstance to the City of the st
ermini. He says-or sings: Vi
1 poets a thousand years dead have sung the
praise Of old cities:
Troy, where the Greeks ana the Troians fl.
like Injuns and slortered each other
ID flung spears and hcaved rocks, and shot
arfers, and cavcrted around in their charry-
OTIS: II
d the cid heethen Gods comm down from i
their fea>ts and their fun on Olympus, dt,
* Il hand in the fight with a 9encepee. a vii
helpin' side the othe- lee
70 OF Aythens and Rome, ard Of veniss and
ner gorat:s goniolars
at ssyIei rite thro the streets by mo,n,ite c
with luvYers on board EN- -
siASin' and playin, gittars anu loots, and r.
ionkln' sweet ct each other.
tieT do at SACRAMENTO in mudsco.s, wien the
river busts over the Ievvys.
)lsdalning these old-time themes, the r.
1t Island Poet bursts into the following
ush " of song:
sing the praises CT Gke,ani the butiful NM
city NV Okeiand
city nv evergreen trees, with narled trunks
and wide spredin' branches
hadn't emmy such trees nor Wit Anthems.
that ever heed on
no young ladies' c,ligis neither, nor Nc
Presbyterian Churches.
5 tr' e home had some fine s:retes, but our
broadway and Twelfth strete kin diskuunt
Venss had her canals bat she hadn't nary
ralerOde:
none NV 'em all, CRATE or small had a
stene ferry Town Dai.
city lots wuth several millions
Il water front wuth several Billions
q CRATE terminusses
travelled in horse mnibusSes,
compared with the priyiligis AM opportuny-
ties enjoyed BY modern Gkeanders they We
must appear 10 The unpreiudycel mind to
be an uuio; tunit lot NV cusses
re we have ut last genuine Califor-
poet, who draws inspiration from ma
ources. Skae's gen Jus has the genuine
oTnian favor. We crown him % Lar
not only of Goat Island, but of the
: Pacific Coast.