Smyrna times., 1879-03-12
Spring Poets, Arouse!
,re 70 EDUCATE EDITORS TO AN APPRECIA-
TION OF POESY.

sva are due. In the fulness of time we
,.,ld he on deck, ready to grapple with
,otural enemy, the editor-I may say
w. nnappreciative editor. Spring, that
-i.rt season, when all things green start
t..,, the circumambient earth, is on the
of fruition, and we should sprout, l
NAV say, with natures other productions
These we're the opening remarks of Dio-
rv.us 0Gall, Chairman of the Spring
Boots Mutual Admiration Association, that
t.l5its first public lamentation in this city
one day last week.
II was a gathering of lofty souls. Both
..rss were represented largely, and, al
,boucb the hall was large, there was not
,oom sufficient to admit one-third of those
who claimed admittance.
But two questions were discussed. These
were, "Why should the scrap-basket sur
vve?" and " Is it possible to educate an ed
i,Or to a proper appreciation of poetry on
Sprng?'
The opinion was unanimous. Inc scrap
basket was voted an insatiate devourer of
scptillations OH Spring, and the editor was
a.olarad TO be an obdurate animal, with q
soul too small to ever arrive at proper ap-
precation Of the Spring muse.
Having settled these points, the associa-
ton decided to enjoy feast of reason, and
every member, male and female, arose and
drew forth yards and yards Of exquisite
verse upon the subject of Spring.
Romoe Jaffr Jifsplitter, an ethereal
youth in black, wearing long hair and a
dirty dickey, was the first to give vent to
bis burning soul. His bosom heaved as he
unrolled five yards Of foolscap, and turned
bis rolling eye in the direction of the cell
ing He had concentrated his voice in his
socks, and got off something sounding this
wise:
81 "Gaily Spring poet,
In frenzy fine,
Get up and 60 it,
And isrk out your rhyme
On Spring;
As green as an emerald,
Or as green pea,
As green as a cheese,
Or as green as you be-"
~ have here" said Dionysius O'Gall
Esq, "what strikes me as being very
happy thought on the subject that distend:
our bosons. 1t is in eighty-seven verses
and clt - 6 IL
run, is infused with fine poetic feeling
Tie eccentricity Of the versifcation vol
will observe, is one of its hidden charms.
The first lines run thus:
"Who would suppozit
That any good poe-it
Could parse
Spring time and know it,
and not compozit
= varse"
BY the time the last verse was read tn
association was palsied with admiration
1t was observed that the cork-screw curls G
some Of the poetesses gradually untwine
as the reading progressed until they hun
Ike sea weeds on a clay bank. Miss Pene
ope Ann Bouncer, lady with a heavenl
elevated nose, with many palpitations c
the heart, unrolled seven yards of manl
script, and read in high soprano key
poem, beginning:
Editor do envy thee
Thy lot how rosy.
To ait by hours and days and read
Odes, ste azas verses and poesy
IA hvyi
his gem had q most soothing effect.
A was remarked that the editor who cou
not appreciate this was an unholy, unchri
tan thing.
From profound lethargy the associate
was reused to a most exuberant state
me reading of a pastoral composition
Fygmallon GalIatin, which opened wi
these lines:
! Ellls lari and allus sing;
sat right down with q very broad grin
snatch my pencil. or some sieh thing
iWrite like thunder; do by jng.
About the grass and the sass,
Green fruit and the lass
Colly wabble which pass.
And other joys of Spring"
Inc glory of being the parent Of the Of
splc production read fell to P. Pew
bangs, Esq, a lobster.faced man with bre
IKE crab. lie heaved out forty.se,
S~hzas, about as bad as this
NY prophetic feet knew IL.
sensitive buninn, that nestles between my
IN and the great toe joint swels with raptures
I'ery individual corn aches aloud:
MA Se still my throbbiag heartl
NJ. e4' Ossar! What mean these exquisite omens /?
"Ay ache and groan. these monitors of cham
seasons?
"a siO@ and groVellng man. take heed spri
mere; the poet feels it in his feet and bosom
=. ultaneously.
~ 70. his sympathetic pen, 0, Editor, but lot
puchP
y -, Weazened little lady, with a per
"AAue voice, with knob of thin
"'a'ed lightly between her ears, arose