The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-05

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t0aafIt are ~ efnlbently % tioal tbst IN
lotto ,dmlfstion must have greeted them
The Jyupleti
lyaf rus, my old compartment Genius has NJ
IN The batd,
N4ting on the tempest with ~, every tfsli
No command,
What regular wooden.legged couplet,
one loe being several inches shorter thar
Me other. Oath grievously battle-scarred
sq W. I'll know, my old companions y
iis etclaims, with singular, modesty
"Geninsh has us by the hand, and we walk
Or the tempest TO command every crisis.
Any ialow that can walk In tempest can
Certainly command n crisis but why not q
BALLOON gas inilated like Gath?
There are thirty or forty stanzas OF the
same sort OF senseless gnsh and gamm In
this 80 called poem which everybody should
read that has nothing else TO do and can't
End Last years almanac TO amuse
themselves withal.
LINCOLN AS BEEN BY GATH.
Gath says solemnly in this grave pc.
etioal address of Lincoln, that, to save old
soldiers, HE watched your marches,
bither, thither, wayward years" "On
his map the road you followed" you
can trsce him by his tears"
The rave and the old soldiers, it seems,
danced sort of hornpipe, and old Abe,
plrouetting along their path, was regular
NiObe. His Jokes were, after all, only
ieremiads. Then the blissful poet tells chat
Lincoln's calls for troops went ringing
round the world mighty bell, and the
races of creation came, the proud revolt to
quel." The rebels used to say
that when they captured New Eng.
landers they spoke all languages except
their own, and were of all colors and races,
L,,k ri q q a n
universal fact that the traces Of creation
combined to "guell the revolt" But Old
Ace never was guilty, "whate'er his duties
r no This stsnza is thus con
structed not that it means anything, but
thai IL may wag the word "monotony" at
it's tail and jingle like a tin cup attached to
small dog. With duties be- "monotony,'
comes in mighty nice it will be observed,
and poetical genius and taste OF high order
il bhus Illustrated.
GATH's STUPIDITY.
But the absurdities of this series of alb
surdiy constructed verses are crowned with
wor5c than stupidity, when we are told
that "a Dram Lincoln" 1--WE put It in plain
prose- like Moses, contemplated the realm
b Sy T9g richmond, thought him Wash.
ington, and then an 'envious bravo (mean-
ing RoothJ snatched him from the theatre
of things, and he became a saint in the
Pantheon of kings" Old Abe among
kings! How absurd the rail and side
splitter among despots "Iheatre-of-
things" is fine, But all Gath,s figures
of p0eucal beech are simply ludicrous or
yiilsinoug. He writes good prose, but his
verses are simply frightful. The suggestion
In the next stanza that "old Abe's white
spirit is q cotton belt for free negro" is
ludicrously, pitifully absurd. See the two
lines es written and as read before the
amazed Old sldiers:
".-. "a. T. hnan's zone of cotton his (old
ahe.0 W lite spirit seems to be:
d. pG SIC ua Is IN the harvest beat his armys
Grssshoppers in Virginia wheat fields
kicked the drums and butted against
them in their light. How beautifully
Gath tells the historical fact. If Gath
doesn't refer TO gTasshoppers, and will tell
us what he means we will explain further.
The verse is not clear.
But look a. this! What does he mean?
Gath is still discoursing about old Abe, and
says:
" IN around him spolled greedy woman vain
and honors spent,
Stlll his faith iu human nature lived without
diScCura sament.'
That nav be the tune, but if old Abe
could read he would lose faith in human
truth, intelligence end decency. But who
would not wonder and who not admire
OLD Abes faith 10 spoiled and greedy wo-
men Spending Donors" and all that. 1t is
a grand eu!ugium. Mixed, homogeneous,
distorted, unnatural and absurd is Gath's
poem. Il has not 4 redeem'ng virtue.