Sharp County record., 1877-11-23
that Dreadful Poetry.
eStern

cleS hen INST excuse us II we yield TO the
of the T. r''a and do a little weeping and
lived in our own account. Our theme,
MED BY q obituary poetry; that mys-
took ~ |,,;sfortune that overtakeS all
lrummoy ,.nral times a week and makes
was Ii Urden almost too great to be
lotel tor "f II St. Paul had been an office
ppearpd = instead of an occasional cor
paid II ort theOlogians would never
inc TO raged in controversies over the
,uld rem. Iibe flesh" that tOrmented him
he tbar 10 They would have known by
or tbro1 to any editor that all the trials
0 look st Efo combined would not equal
ceiyed Vance n he suffers in the recep-
the ! Ginosition of original poetry,
then doS ~Tr that of the obituary order.
and, AT 'n6st frequent poetic fever" says
apsed, Ifappy person in the Democrats
The III E'FsI lis that which affects the be-
ed for fl. "a nprson.n He continues:
GREW E5otber has lost child and yearns
laindpr i sympathy she is surely entitled
cared n I'll comes into the newspaper office
" of hy sive nothing but respect, whether
othino rn he Of calico or silk, and is
ncern2, likely to be one as the other.
visit rs a friend has written little
ciety br "A 70 her lost darling, evidently
rday rEg that the loss is known to all
sion Of wTd, so large is her grief and so
he noo, 4, there on earth for her outside
unScrrr II moy of that dead child.
when f ri he verses are good she is told,
on Snke average of these verses, but
a statW think them beautiful she inter-
upforA l. nconsciously as indignant as if
was a n Egrief, instead of the poetry, had
BurFh hfTticised. MY friends all think
she b rbeautiful and appropriate, and it
-, Of tbpir request as well as my own de-
er aAa Hat | come here
as acc4lSbe is told kindly as possible that
Lt B. Enblication would be no credit to
eturp III TO the memory of the child; that
aptemb. H. blication of one such poem brings
emrn I6sand more, and it would be i'm
N som rble of course, to print them all.
ompau MVe have taken your paper several
age W, she says with grieved look,
way h al would prefer it for this purpose to
der II. .r6tber:' and after a moment she
lid mai < ont, feeling hurt and Inundated,
ved in 4 1eaying the person she has inter-
less n rbd feeling somewhat as if he had
Street III stealing Sheep
le until is is true to the life. While read
office otf, we live over again a thousand
nd CRH interviews. We frequently meet
upon Ife street, cOuntenances that recall
in Sd be- raj recoltections of scenes in which
ming IA 4 ere compelled to fortify our hearts
on. v hist the inconsiderate but almost
er fru ft-broken appeals of mOurners who
m thai a come tdus with dreadful memorial
ude to Is for which they begged a place in
frieD ktOumns They could not be ap-
Ned by showing them that the poetry
eyecrable in sentiment and con-
es. tton, however good it might be IN
milton. Onein thousand such poems
Bruins be worthy of publication. Ninety
wing n NAV be regular in composition but
long aS commonplace as the al phabet,
Y am Lie nine hundred are without rhyme
:" eaSOn, without sentiment or emotion,
ok pl Eed as the edge of a saw, savorleSS
IS ca ID meal without salt, poor, limping,
grammatical, misspelled, burlesque
0luctions which, if published, would
nfgthe dead child, ,orparent,O or brother,
rgSer almost into rdicule with the
One a &ligent public. It's favor to these
endS and to the memory of their lost
note sures to refuse the request, yet that
tel" Sal almost invariably gives pain and
me& Dketmes ofense. Occasionally, the
little fOr in his good nature offers to mend
mjOinted thing, to patch up its dress
ed hewhat, so that it may at least pass
and UhOtiCed. But what task is that. 1t
hey NE better for him to grind out an en-
iRly original article. In other cases,
hurry pr rejection, he sees, with mournful
roug crest the same unhappy production
e w the corner of a cotempOrary; and tre-
I'd pd ently it is returned to him impercep-
add Il y amended, in some case three or
too rtimes, until the hideous nondescript
Pr an amtS him in his dreams.
There are not dozen memorial poems
na existence worth reading. Except
LII hOng men and women of the rarest
MlowmentS, grief does not express
IaHef naturally and forcibly in verse.
as NwOuld be just as reasonable to gauge
m pressure of q grave or measure a
W. pumer's tears by the pint as to sub
Ne his sorrow to the harness of rhyme
ley Adrhythm. We beg our friends to send
Y no obituary poetry. We will take
olas risk OF losing some Tennyson' " In
oS'1 emOriam " for the sake of exemption
lucI pm the annoyance, perplexity and
Ell pubic which inevitably ensue upon the
feSentation of those few verses III
semory of somebody's darling.-Bes-
M Herald.