The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-23
TIE WOOERS OF THE MUSE.

set down aught in malice Wien he made
a distinguished lady pride herself on
her own lines TO SO unpoelical a thing as
an expiring frog. The human under
standing for the most part III ght as well
not exist SO far as verses are concerned.
Intelligent and successful men ana
women may be almost certainly look ed
upon in every instance as strangers to
all manner OIL judgment III the poetry
business. There is The liking Tor poetry
there; but one verse answers as Well as
anOtner, ana the poorest Is as llkely TO
be cherlshea ana Wept over as the pest.
W e may adu, lesI some hearCS De hurt
by these sweeping REMARKS, tuaC IL may
not De ueslraole 10 oe aple 10 aiscrlmin-
ate nicely III ms niaVtel' slnce tne
! faculty IS usuahy h"u ~ lne eAPohse OF
some gliI Ilhely 10 DFthg money, ana
| IhereIoIe ho'e a'uHpie.
Anyhow PeopLe WIZ uIe' ana Will get
mafLIeu, anu wiz 40 ottef IhIhgs calru-
| lateu 10 iuNlte 'ne p2eIic sehCtment, anu
MI NurI's mas ne quenIly Feliarkeu Jhat
pam WolUe are Ihe pest' mere came
10 US yesterday man suHlcieAtly soma
anu pt"cIiEaI W D" aple 10 swap lorses
ana make money az II. lnat man
sheaked Ill as IL ne nao sonlethihG 10 be
ashamed o. anu inslhuateu lOul verses
|
Wlote 'neln, anu Ino hHiHe AAueI Wy Ho
means oe permitted W 90 p2iore the
puptlc'
| 'DuI," we salu, 'Cne verses are not
| Sooo, Iuey mu3 hoI 20 Ia Ill an! shape'
| o"lGl9 w "iG JoAlns
o.l' 'aiu 'ne seH1ienlau p.ushl"g
anu cNluehtlS "SSo"lsue"' III hoG
inucn "a Ju'S VI sun 1nlhs' out L
VuoushI as "n olu s"oscI4OeF
n.y., you seI out'
mere are huh"feds OF TINS class. The
puoilc VIII be astoulshed, but there are
aOsoEdIely hunoreos OF lheM; aud in
the poo"! h.LnGh's VI IhoSe ol Ihem VINO
drink you WILL ma Ihem suffepllilousIy
taking verses from the sWsal-Danus OF
their haIs anu growing SICK over Them,
The most lfequenI Roetlc leVer, now
ever, Is 'n%C "nlcu an Gus the pereaNeu
person. "A nJCAeF mas Iost cHll" and
yeafn5 lol 'le syihpaCn! she Is surely
euItleu w. HHo Voulee luCo Iue news
iaper once 10 receive holhlhg put re-
| spect, WAtthGi het Gown be oI cRliCJ or
SILK, aho IL ls quiIe as Hhely TO Dc one
as the otner. She says friend has
written lltt'e tflDute TO her lost dar-
| ling, evidently thlhklhS That the loss io
known 10 all tHe WoIlu, SO large is her
grief ana so llItIe Is t"ele on eaith Tor
nel o"''1S " @J VI 'A"u NS"u
chiiu.
"Ile verses are as goou," she Is told,
'as the average OF these verses, but
-"
Il think them peNuu,uI!' she inter-
runts, uneoneclously us indignant as II
0ef grle', lhsleau o! tAe poetry, had Deen
cTltlclsea. MY lrlehuS aA tnihN tuem
beautiful ana appropriate, ana II Is at
thelf ieque9 as wen as my own desire
that come mere"
She IS to.u as Nlhuly as possible that
their pupllcatloh Would pe no credit to
ner OF 10 the memory Oh lhe child; that
the puDilc%lioh OF one such poem brings
a thousand more, ana IL would be lmpos-
s1Oie, Ol course, TO PRINT them all.
"N nave taken your paper several
years, sue says WIN g[leVeQ looN,
'anu woulu prefer IL lOr TINS purpose TO
any otheI;, ana alter moment she
goes out, leellhg hurt ana AumIllated,
and leaving the person she mas Inter-
viewed leellhS somewhat as II lie had
been steallhs sueep'
There are lhousahds OF THIS class, and
mere VIII De thousands more. Dealh is
always Dusy, ana gFlei VIII have this
pecuIlaf outleI "heh al !he rest are
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