Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-20
Concerning Rhymes.

I In a Late issue we commented. on the
tendency of people to send their dirty
linen to a newspaper Office to be cleaned,
and gave an. example of the sort of item
we were daily called on. to publish
! Next to the average item referred to,
our, ehiefest- and most desperate struggle
is with the poets. They inundate ns.
They overflow odr. quiet with rhymes:
They si,lle into. the office. and deposit
their epics with the self possession of a
: book agent. they occupy, the. mails
! with ink and paper, that have lost their
qsefulness, and calmly propose TO US to
| drive our readers one step nearer the
grave with praises Of Spring and Love
and Hope, and the. rest Of. it. But we
don't, do it. We have unfiinchingly met
the lightning rod man; we have repulsed
the man with shirt patterns; we. have
gloriousIy. conquered thu. corn and bum
ion extractor and have even stood firm
under the establishments of the map.
| man and the individual with campaign
+! charts !; and think. you, that we shall
| finch from the. torrent of stanzas when
our duty demands us to stand. firm |?
!: Milky 4 tz....e -el 800. "a o.
|. ;. Once, IN a While, however, we run
/ across. something of such wonderful and
+ prerneditated ferocity of imbeeihty that
! we quail, and. retire. for a time. to our
| inmost den, there to indite furious arti-
.cles on the innate depragity of man
and woman; There is one of these effu-
!. .sions under our eye at present and,
/ since there is 40 punishment 50 awful
+ as Exposure, we submit it to our read
er$, With the confidential advice not to
read ii; -...s
How nu h pve heard of Old Vermont,
~ And OF y woudrous fame;
4 I Thought ito he more pure than all,
4. -. When 30. the place came. rsrsrrs-.t
i hui it.trA II continual absence
i - of tile int * ,t'ng drink.
4, e. c 3l,4-reel lIg in the street
~. / Gid not sven hfnk
Brf eos OF th1,k my writing K
! ~ 'ipf t.hiS ssFr.tt-4,HA crue strife. ~,
1 Tha' 4 ,taf ,llv,ty-. a"eHpg fault -zes ---l
!. r. With eNeENth1nS IN life. t-..,s l.. =
! No. indee But just to. show yea. !. :.
H., How .dirapp inll q oBe can be :, s-f-
I In GO 1!i ny. ia. Vermont state t.' .- ..
t. Great te peEance to see. -....s.. 4.
! Always w.he., d a iigof Vermont,
IT.: L noNer has Il I Il ...'. -. -,'...s..
T. Of.in sIn-y,ltr Sc y and woe. T., . p
H.. From THE cause CAME here. .... ,.-
i Batnow / have neluded, -
! 90. SifeC. c nan ane, III this place; -.. g..
f. Eve Awheis j. W q rs sw eli as JOY. ~
j. q, And we, uluet iiittt thein face to face
l.. We have never before regretted the
I good name. of Vermont, butif it really
i was this reputation Which brought the
author here, as he intimates in bis first
stanza, we pray for such a Sodom-and-
Il Goniorrah revelation as shall send him
to Troy, OF. st. .AlbaDs, or some other
i impure and unholy village, -.........-
/ The second verse is evidently a slui
l on A. j.. Smith, and is, the more uncall.
ed for as that great and good man is al
+ present out of town, II is ungeneroHs
! thus to attack the absent. .s...-.sss
The third grist is apparently a con
.tinuation of the adventures. of the same
!, person; and the great and cruel strife
probably allutes. to the efforts of the
ninions of the law to eliminate Smith
/ and to ]persecute the downtrodden.
I I t''Great Temperance, in the fourth
section, may allude to the majestic pro
! portions of Crawford, our police force,
or it may be a general allusion thrown
in to fill out line. Each reader must
determine this for himself
If the illusions to misery and woe in
the next division are aimed at the editor
ial force Of the Globe we Indignantly re-
pudiate them on behalf of our colabor-
ers. They are not miserable nor Woe
begoue-not half so much so as they
ought to be. -.
We haven't the least idea who the
author means when he refers to meeting
"woe and joy face to face"
This screed is signed with the name
of Cook and purports to come from
Rutland. But we know that this is a
malicious fabrication, and we scorn the
author of the weak invention 1t is
evidently the work of an out-of-town
Cook-perhaps Captain A. s., of Brap-
don. But after all it isn't likely that
Captain Cook would write poetry at all
least of all such rhymes as these.
And then again, conversly the sentiments
are those known to be held by the Cap
tain, and the orthodox temperance doc
trines of the rhymes are in perfect ac-
cord with the moral tone of Brandon.
1t is too much to say that the Captain
was the author, but defense from the
imputation is in order.