The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-01-08
THE POET.
Just the Same Old Poet, But
Rather Has a Corner on
Some New Ideas.
He Fai0f q Moral and AdOrns a
Tale in the Most Touch
ing Verse.

any KIM Oh AL INDIVIDUAL believes
that he or she can write poetry and
no newspaper in the land is ever quite
able 10 get rid of the stuff that is sent
in for publication under this guise.
Waste baskets are filled until they
run over with their burtben, but still
the poetry fiend turns up at regular
intervals along with the changes in
the moon and screeds which are moth.
ing more, in nine cases out of ten,
than mere doggerels are sent in as
"a favor" of coucse, with the request
TIA they be published.
Lit is of no use to tell the authors
that their efusion are not poetry,
that there is "neither rhyme or res-
son" in them, that prosody does not
admit a poetic license which makes
"love" rhyme with "cove" as one en-
te-prisiug poet tried to make the
BAzoo believe, but it avaiis nothing
and every week poets heads drop
regularly beneath the BAzoo's
saickersnee, into The waste basket aud
Is smile, with sort of a solemn JOY
as TIE decapitated remains are throw
from the back window into the
sacred precincts of that "happy
hunting ground" known as 'Pearl
River Truly the BAzoo sympa-
thizes with its fallen victims. 1t
wishes they would escape its clutches
, and believe they are not butt for
poets, bat il is no use, aud such speci-
mems as the following are doomed to
provoke murder.
In an Introductory the ''poet says
eff you thing it worthy, please print
IT," also, "resd carefully as it contains
a moral aud is dedicated to Miss
1t begins 10 this fashion, reader"
"The autumn leaves have fallen long ago,
The coidsst DAYS of winier are now here.
Young bicds nave quit thei- chirping
'mong the trees,
And ali 'he meadows are Blown and
sere'
The coolest days of winter ought to
b. here, probably, but they are not,
hence there is point blank ialsehood
10 the above.
But hear him again /:
"The nicker OF coils on the gree h;llsides,
Bleats OF the lambs thai wee driven
slowly.
And the 10 of cs,ile BY running brooks
Ali OF these have hushed Tor a line
onlr.''
"Nicksr is extremely expressive,
aud $50" OF lie is not exsctlv cor
rect as 10 photography, but it leaves
Kate Putnum Osgood in the shade,
and that was probably the authors
object. To be sure SLOWLY" and
''onIy" does not rhyme, but there is
jingle about it which Is very sweet
and hence is "go."
Hear these two beautiful verses
"Last summers hot sun is set for awhile.
And lis heat has now gentlv passed
away,
The ground is covered with the beautiful
To cheer alike both the sad aud the
gay.
IT'S then you can hear on soae Silent
street,
As low and sweet as the COO of a dove
Sounds of music lover is making
Beneath the window OF his lady love-"
1t does not seem to strike the au-
thor, that to sit around 10 the snow
and "make music" uude- a ladys
window, would be pretty considerable /
of an undertaking, bat then be might !
be prepaced with a foot stool and a |
buffalo robe aud almost anything is
TO be conceded to lovers on s1ch oc-
casions and this will be allowed to
pass muster. But read the conclusion {:
"Go 10 the hall and look through its |
windows,
And there you'll hear the Joyous laugh |
of youth,
Where there is jov and laughter ringing
Which doesn't seem to them al all un-
couih.
The maiden that now puts her hand 10
his,
And is tempted 10 plant on his cheek
kiss
Her years will then be full of pain and
And'lI bid farewell to celestial bliss.
Der he. green grave The birds will come
and sing.
OF a land far away and free from pain,
But of all sad words, tongue or pen could
say
The saddest, different it could have
BEEN"
The conclusion shows that Whit
tier has rival in the field of poesy
and that the "moral," referred to by
the poet in his introductory letter is
that if the girl hadn't cone and loved
the other fellow, she would live to a
ripe old age and not give the birds
chance to sing of ga land far away