The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-08-21
THE KENOSHA TELEGRAPH
KENosHA WIS.,, AUGUST arss 1873
THE PILOT-THE LITTLE BUGLER

pilot and The Little Bugier-by FL. W
Roby. on the inside of this paper. MIR
Roby not only writes testimony in acoqrt
with the speed Of speech, but writes
poetry out Of court with due delibera
ton we have but few as good poets a
Mr.. Roby-perhaps none better. He !
one of Our Home Poets who docs credi
to the West ID - ~
We have followed the punctuation 0
the copy except where there seemed to
be typographical errors, and then, have
punctuated as the sense seemed to. re-
uuire. There is one error in the first
word of the first line of the, last verse
but one, not noticed till the papers we're
nearly all printed, where the apostro9he
in the word Md st is between the d and
in place Of before the " where it should
be. It is in the right place in, q few OF
the papers
The Pilot and The Little Bugter are
both good poems-and both are worthy
of criticism. In measure both are. per-
feet. And if the word her is justly en-
phasized or accented in the captains
command In the eleventh verse of The
Pilot, Head her to the southeast" both
are perfect n verse. Never having
heard such command given under such
circumstances, u we are unable to say
whether the captain would emphasize
the word her or Lot. Our frst impress
ion would be that Head would he the
emphatic word, but the impression, might
be wrong. Wewiti leave tito captains
or those who have heard captlins give
the command under like circumstances
to decide, and let Mr.. Roby apply to
them for their decision NAJ ss''oa'''A- .
In sense both are generally goed---trst
rate. From this statement however We
except the tenth and sixteenth verses of
The Pilot.
The word 1icSd in the third line of the
tenth verse-"The livid faces, pallid
lips,"-we do not believe expresses the
meaning intended to be conveyed, or
else the poet is mistaken In the appear
ance Of the faces. Perhaps some pur
plish red face might become livid bu:
it would be an exception and not gener'
al. The lips becoming pallid, deficient an
color, pale, aOan, it would be unnatural
and unusual for the face 10 become livii,
6IacI and blue, Of a lead color dis:olorsd,
as flesh By confusion, but natural and usu-
al to become pale, 6Ianched, rchStGsh, .a0hit-
ened.
We have followed the copy in the Or
biography of the word bndWs in the last
line of the sixteenth verse, 1.-THE raging
fend Lnous at his hands," though we
should prefer the usual photography
qnaac8 The words knaa0S at may or may
not express the meaning intended. But
they do not express the meaning that
should be conveyed. The raging fiend
does more and worse than to gnaw ATTIC
Gte at, John Maynard's hands. 1t reaches.
and scorches them. And this is the mean
ng which should be conveyed but which
mans at does not convey, RI e..
The Little Bugler is good-Very goo d
Still it has some faults. "'''~''.it (
"When that night OF awful terrors
Passed way, and came the morn,
On the hill top, pierced with bullets
Lay the bugler and his horn" ......
The bugler and his horn were bott
pierced with bullets, both lay on the hill
Cd. Substitute p5t6 for and IN the last
me and the bugler only is pierced witt
outlets. And why not say Of the Little
3ugler as we'll as of John Maynard
"And dies to live again in fame, - and
ellis deeds be sung while time snail last'
And sacred be his honored dust.
And why not allow John May
lard and Little Bugler to llv
gain in fact "a we'll as in fame? Mr.
,oby is too good a poet to confne hi
oetry to things of time and sense. TIL
title Bngler is not finished even as tn
ilot is finished, and until it is. Mr.. Ro
VS. work with il is not done. When
thus finished we would suggest that t
,mplete both poems John Maynard an
title Bugler should live again in fact a
ell as in fame. John Maynard may &c
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