The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-02-08
DROPPING INTO POETRY.
The Experience Of . Young Lady
Who Could Not Make the
Last Line Of Her Verses
Rhyme Properly.


Last Line OF Her Verses
Rhyme Propsrly.
Brooklyn Eagle.
IF you please. SIR said the young
lady timidly, as an exchange editor
handed her 4 chair. Il have com posed
Q few verses. or partly composed them.
and ] thought you might help me
finish them and then print them. M
says they are real nice q far a. they
60. and ps takes the Eagle every
day."
She was Q handsome creature. with
beautiful eyes and crowning
glory a. yellow as golden rods. There
was 40 expectant look upon her face,
. hopelessness appealed to the hottest
emotions. and the exchange editor
made up his mind not to crush the
longing of that pure heart il he never
struck another lick.
MAY I show you the poetry ?"
the ripe, red mouth. You
will eco that l couldn't get the last
lines of the verses, and il you will
please be % kind a. to help me"
Help her! Though he had never
read . line Of poetry. the exchange
editor felt tho spirit of divine'srt Good
bis soul a. he yielded to bewiidrring
music. Help her! Well. he should
smile.
.lIov softly sweet the autumn ar.
The dying woodland fills.
And mature turns from res;fui CARE
ITO Ambitious Pills" added the
exchange editor. with q jerk. Just
the thing. 1t rhymes and rs 40. You
take any BODY now. Half the people
you meet are
Il suppose you know best" inter
rupted the young girl. ii hadn't
thought Of it in that way, but you
have q better idea OF such things.
Nov the second verse 10 more like
this:
ne 0OVe eyeo RfuS wynn fsstSs
Look tender. meek. and sad.
While from the valley cotnes the ross-'"
.. OF tho matchless liver psd !
roared the exchange editor. There
you get it. That finishes the second
% q to match with the first. II
combines the fashions with poetry.
and carries the idea home to the FIRE
side. If only had your ability liz
starting . verss with my geniu. it,
winding it up, I'd quit the shears and
open 10 the -Poetry bus,DcAs tenor
row."
Think 90 ?" a.ked the fair youne
lady. ut don't strike me a. keeping
up the theme"
you don't wan: to. Yon want to
break the theme here and there. The
reader likes it better. o. yes! Wher.
you keep up the theme it gets monot-
onons."
perhaps that's So" rtjained the
beauty. Frightening up. Il didn't
think Of that. Now III read the
third verse:
Sadly droors the dyius dn,.
A. night springs from the glen.
And moaning Wight seems 20 ssy-
"'The old man's drunk sgain'
would not do. would i,?" asked the
exchange editor. Somebody elss
wrote that and We Nigh; he accused
of plagiarism. We mus, have this
thing original. Suppose we say-no~
just suppose We say: Why did ]
epout my Ben ;"
rs that newt" inquired tie sweet
rosy lips. "At least I never heard i,
before. Idon't know what it means. I"
New! should say twas, Ben i
the Presbyterian name for overcoaf.
and spout means to hook. 'Whv did
I spout my Ben? means Why did !
shove my topper? That's just what
twilight would think Of irst. you
know. o. don't be afraid-,La;'. just
immense.
swell. I'll leave it to yon." said
the glorious girl with smile tina. PIN
ned the exchange editors heart 10 HE
spine. This is the forth verse:
The merry miIkmsid's scn5er song
Re-echoes from the rock.
A silently she trips along"
"With holes il both her socks.'
BY jove!" cried the delighted editor.
"You See
20. no. no !" demonstrated the
maiden. "Not that"
Certainly" protested the exchange
editor, warming no. "hine u four
she's got EN-; and you get fidelity to
fact with . wealth q poe:ical ex-
preston. The worst of poetry cener-
ally is. yon cant state things rs they
are. It amt like prose. But here We
have busted all the established no
tions, and put up an actual existence
with . veil of genuine poetry ever it
I think that's the best idea We have
struck yet"
81 don't see to look at it a. you do.
but of course you are the beat Judge.
Pa thought l ought to say:
As silently she trips sioax
In autum's yellow tracks.
Wouldn't that dO?"
"Do! Just look at it! Does tracks
rhyme with rocks! Not in the Brook
Ign Eagle it don't. Besides. when
you say tracks and rocks you give
The impression of come fellow heaving
lhings at another fellow who.
for safety. Sucks. On the
other hand. rhymes with the rocks
lnd beauties them, while il .ouche.
up tho milkmsid, aud BY describing
Der condition shows her 70 DO child
Of the very nature you are showing
ap."
Il think you are right" said the
'weet angel. "lll tell pa where he
was wrong. This is tie way the fifth
7erse runs: