Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-03-08
VIEW PUBLICATIONS.
e,,vx uon.,,1y PoEIs. Edited by A. J. S san,
"'E EXP n Principal Of MIddlebGry niSn
school. ClaremOnt, n. H., Clareinoh'
featuring Company, l542'

"NLhS NJ Principal Of Middleoury -
school Claremont, n. H., CiArenoN'
featuring Company, l542.
We .bould be very glad to let this oooN pns'
Nth the commentator Of minor cetsHs wiz
rb;ob ,misble editors often thinly conceal 'ns-i
,.;,,-o 70 find more substantial grounds Of
prsise. We might say Of it that II Isl sUC'
Iookipr volume Of 5l1 pages, in green ana g0iu'
that n,per and presswork are fair and near
,b,. the eonpiler has shown much enterprise IN
the collection and publication Of SUCH '4l''-
collection and that there arc some pre''J
things in it, and stop there But 1t comes 70 Us
nth note from its editor, asking our - eriu-
osm..'' Thus appealed to for our honest JUG
rnent Of the book, We are compelled % say 'HA'
:, s for the most part, collection Of very poor
vsrsss These were originally contributed N
most casea, we f4ncy,to the columns Of the ooun-
ty newspapers, and most Of them are not Al IL
above the average of very ordinary - newspaper
noe;rv.'' or worthy CT any more permanent per-
petuation in print
The compiler's preface tells w, IN not as s0'-
English as we might expect from the pFincipal
of an important Academy, thst the volume l.
presented to the public in response to the urgent
REQUEST Of many Of the lovers Of poetry, and thst
the poems of Vermont should be preserved ior
t,.pre times" But we can find but Is"
rosm, in it, that future times will be hkeiy
70 thank US for. The authors, no less than
ssr,p,,,-siylt in number, are thus fer, with very
few exceptions. quite unknown to fame anu
We can understand the reasoP why, as we real
their commonplace lines. They are undono'ed-
" excellent people some of them We kro" 10
he esteemed in every relation Of private LIE
Int tbsy are not poets, and We can only COZ
slider :, unfortunate for them and for the State
that thew should thus be held up to the public
as sc the poe;s Of Vermont" "a specimens q
tho trash thus collected. take this stanz1.
Rlsss thee little winsonae Katie
With thy azure eyes ..
A7i thy rosy tinted sunl4SAL
That thy pale cheek ayes.
IT'S rough r0ad thou'st o uaFel a.
Or this, by another pen
The rain drop Is a lizzie thing.
But when they come IN NIT
Rsfresniuy showers @ earth they brin-
Enliyening al the gas
Or thil By still another
Farewell, my native valley
Farewell my native valley
sweet scenes Of love and peace adlsu'
For must leave lly native VAlley.
There are half dozen more su'h verses II
,bi, O" poem an pages on pages Of lines 10 'e''
cheap AMI puerile, By other &c p'e;s OF TAT
same es,ibre. But absence Of merit Is not all
What sb.n We s-y Of such atrocities as this
,-,n ~ ambitious ode on " Fate, Law, an
God -
Free. tloulh1ess. wild
As any child,
DER power she rode
with heed sss strobe, ,'tc1
Ofc5urse al the pieces in this volume are no
quite a. bad a. these specimens. There are naal
thu, have the simple fsui- Of mediocrity The!
we're well enough. doubtless. for the ParPose
and places for which they were written an.
their writers probably are net at all to b-Sm
for their appearance between boards, "a ' th
rosr,, of vermont" Others. If not highly
p5et.sal, have the meri; Of humor There a.
.evers! pieces By SAKE, not Of his best by ap.
me.n,. snia Tragcsl Tale in the style
s,re's Fisherman and shout as gooi' by R
NJ Bailey. We have found slso few rea''-
pretty things. One ofthe pre;tias. is tie follow