The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-07
a FAMILIAR LETTER.
no SEVERAL CORRESPONDENTS.

Res, write, if you want to, there's nothing like
trying;
Who knows what treasure your casket may
I'm sl1ow You that rhymings as easy as lying
"a yoUpl listen 10 me while the art unfold.
EEs-,'s book full of words; one can choose as he
LEncicG,
M a painter his tint, az a workman his tool;
ssst think. all the poems, and plays and romances
wnr drawn out of this, like the fish from pool
E0u can wander at will through its sylabled mazes,
And take all you want-not a cOpper they cost
What il there 10 hinder your picking out phrases
Eor an epic as clever as Paradise Lost.
Eson't mind If the index of sense is at zero,
Use words that run smoothly, whatever they
T.eandor aud Lillian and Lillibullero
Are much the same thing III the rhyming ma
chine.
'-aore words so delicious their s@eetness will
Taat boarding-school flavor of which we're
@,tere ia Lush " is good one, and "swirl IL
Hat both in one stlnza, it. fortune is made.
with musical nunnurs and rlythmical closes
pou cheat us Of smiles when you've nothing
YTaV hand ms noseeav Of mil!iner's roses
And we cry with delight, "Oh, how sweet they
do srnell!'
Y'e,aaus vo,, will answer all needful conditions
9,or winning the laurel 20 which you aspire
LSy decking the tils OF the two propositions
4 the style O the bards you 80 greatly admire
"a Cor subjects FOR verse; they are only too plenty
T'lr ringing the changes ON metrcal chimes,
4 tlaiGen. a iuoonbcam. "A lover OF twenty
Haye filled that great BASKET with bushels OF
rhymes
Let NE show you pcture-'tis far from irreie-
want
IVA famous old hand in the arts of design;
,i,a1s l,pfa1 ole
Tyae name of the draghtsmap was Rembrandt of
Rhine.
sIow easy, no troublesome coors to lay on,
Sc can't have fatigued bim--no not IN the least
a dash hare and there with hap-hazard crayon
And there stands the wrinkled-sknned, baggy-
hmbed beast.
=ust so with your yerse-'tis AS easy stetching-
You can reel of a song wlthou; knitting your
brow,
rs lightly as Rembrandt drawing etching;
IS IS nothing at all, if you only know how.
yVen, imagine you've printed your volume of
verses
Gour forehead is wrcathcd with the garland of
xo1r poems the eloquent school boy rehearses,
Ser album the school girl presents tor your name
Ici, morning the post brings you autograph letters;
NcU1l answer them promptly-an hour ism much
},E the honor OF sharing page with your bctters,
With Magistrates, members OF Congress, and
such.
as course, you re delighted to the committees
shat come with requests from the country all
round,
Pom would grace the occasion with poems and dit
ties
Nhcn they've got a new school house, poor
house, or pound
With hymn for the saints and song for the sin
ncrs,
You 60 and are welcome wherever you please
You're privileged guest at all manner of dinners,
you've seat on tie platform among the
grandces.
AT length your mere presence becomes a sensation,
Your cup of enjoyment is filled to its hrim.
A. the whisper round of That's he !" or
That's him :"
25Ht remember. oh dealer in phrases sonorous,
80 daintily chosen, so tunefuliy matched.
Though you soar with the wings of a cherubim
The aegos was human from which you were
Matched
SO will 81 your own with its puny compusion
Can summon the spirit that quicbens the Tyre;
NL c"rucs, il at all, like the Sibyls CONFUSION
And touches the brain with finger of fire.
A. you've nothing you think is worth saying in
prose,
'>s ~ furnish meal of their canuiba diet
II the critics by publishing, as you propose.
-fCt to all of no usc and I'm sorry I've written
shah sec your thin volume day on my
ELci;
soS the rlyming tarantua surely has bitten,
and music must cure, pipe il yourself
---,FirerF aadeH Hot0eS, an Atlantic for January.