The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-20
EXTRACTS FROM A POEM.

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! We received some time since for pub
LEGATION poetical efl'usion of some gay
and festive youth, which, at the time,
not having the leisure fore careful peru
sal, we laid aside for future reference.
Rumaging among old papers the 9TH
er day, we brought it to the surface.
| We have read it.. 1t is fine in fact it is
| downright touching. We are sorry we
have not space to lay. it before our read
ers in its entirety. Comment, howev-
er favorable, and extracts, however jul
| diciously culled, cannot do it justice.
In the language of the illustrious Mr..
| Sparkler, cit is an admirable affair with
no bigodd nonsense about il" We must,
however, content ourselves with giving,
as our readers must be contented with
having, only such choice selections as
our taste and judgment will enable us
to extract. Let us, however, by way Of
preface and for the purpose of giving
our readers some adequate conception
of the bard's great notoriety, make
mention of the fact that before begin
ming his poem he takes care to say that
he is the author of "God in Nature and
Mind :" ''The Old Rustic Bridge" "All
in Life Time" "etc., etc." thus pre-
| pairing our mind for proper apprecia-
ton of the merits of his rhyme for how
could we, in fact, have discovered its
great merit if the author had not given
us this inkling of his reputation? But
| enough, let us return to the poem
| Our readrs are to understand that the
young poet had spent a week in our
city, and had met at the hotel, whose
honored guest he was, a beautiful
Young creature with whom he evident
Iy fell desperately in love. The poet
heads his lines with
ga KIND ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO MISS -
OF EMPoRIA."
This is the first stanza:
{" Take this to remember me- she said,
And a little flower gave,
Then smiles as she bows her fair young head
AS the stranger grew more grave"
He don't explain why the stranger
grew more grave, but it was probably
owing to state of indigestion, as GER
tainly the bestowal of little flower by
one so fair should have delighted rather
then saddened him. Another stanzs
runs as follows:
81 accept your gift, my fair young friend,
With its fragrance sweet and pure;
IT'S but flower, but twill tend
A friendship 10 make secure"
AS an example of faultless metre we
commend the last two lines to the at
tentive consideration of non.inexperi
enced bards.
.sMy stay beneath Emporia's skies
A most pleasant week has been,
And Memory seeks with glad surprise
The pearl that Friendship shall VIM
/ We give herewith another stanza, the
last of the bard's present production al
well as the best:
sand now something tells me we shall meet
Meet again in course of time,
And how in true friendship we shall greet.
And then for another rhyme"
We would advise our poetical friend
when he writes this "other ryme" tC
send it directly to to his fair young en-
chantess herself; for the crowded con
dition of our columns will not admit
of the publication of even so excellent
q poem as this forthcoming one, judg
ed by the one before us, is pretty GER
tain to prove. We will also state tha
the authors request to ''send me s
dozen copies containing the little poem
1 herewith enclose to appear in youl
merit ISSUE" cannot be complied witt
until he sends US about sixty cents tc
pay for the papers and five cents to pay
postage.