The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-10-12
Another Posthumous Poem BY Edgar
Allan Poe.

Many Of our exchanges have recently
published what purported TO be a pos.
thumous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, en-.
titled Leonainie /" The editor Of a
kokomo, Indiana, sheet in which the
production originally appeared, claims
that the poem was copied from the fly
leaf Of an old book belonging to gen.
tlemen Of that city, who obtained il from
his grandfather. The latter kept an inn
in Virginia village, and one night
just before bedtime young man, exhib-
ting signs of dissipation, stopped at the
house and secured lodgings. When they
went to his room next morning TO call
him TO breakfast he had gone away and
left the book, on the fiy1eaf of which
he had written the poem :. Leonainie. y
with the initials " +. A. P.- appended.
u course the poem is genuine, for the
editor Of the Kokomo p per says so,
though Poe must have been wrestling
with one Of the biggest DRINKS Of his
life when he wrote il.
Not 70 be outdone in enterprise by a
Kokomo paper, the Herald dispatched
a correspondent to Virginia with in
structions TO spare neither time nor ex-
pense in the effort to capture a postum
nous poem by the gifted but cratic
Poe. After an absence of nearly two
weeks he sends US the poetic fragment
given below, with the explanation that
he discovered it written in chalk on the
inner side of barn door, on the prem
ises Of an old farmer living near Win
chester. One night, the farmer saws.
young man, with wild and berry look,
applied at his house for lodgings, and
was given accommodations in the barn.
At daybreak next morning when the old
man went out 10 feed his stock, the
stranger was gone and the following
poem, with Poe's initials attached, was
found written on the barn door:
MARrExxE.
Mary Ann her parents named her,
But she wrote IL Marienne,
And though angels have not claimed her,
shes a. lair "a any.
For her Eyes are dark and gloomy,
And her mouth T. rather roomy-
And have angels whispered TO me.
No, not any.
When fantastic shapes and shadows.
Danced In darkling glens and meadows,
Fairies gay and bright and bcaming.
With pale starlight luster cleaning,
lowered DER the fair and dreaming
Mariennc.
hut my dream Of life r. broken
And my tale Of love unspoken;
For with gloomy eyes wide open,
Leaving neither sign nor token.
She elOpcd with fancy fellow
one whose hair was long and yellow
Anu his head both thick aud mellow -
And do You think that shall below
For Mariennes
Nary any. r. A.. n.
The asterisks in the poem, II may be
as well 10 explain, represent gap made
by the farmer inadvertently backing up
against the barn door "a scratch his
back. The beautiful thoughts thus OBJ
are forever lost 10 the literary
world. Jealousy may impel some Of 4
our contemporaries 10 insist that the poem
would have been vastly improved If
he farmer had wiped ont the whole pro-
luction, but they can not conscientious
y declare that our poem by Poe dosn't
contain more sense 10 the square inch
han the Kokomo effort. The Herald
wished 10 send us the en-
ire barn door rs guarantee Of his
rood faith, but the farmer objected. ne
occurred one Of the hinges, however,
which any one who doubts the genuine
less OF Mariennc" can see BY calling
i his residence. Nerristown (Pa) n
Herald