Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14
GAZETTE SHORT TALKS.

invest this beautiful little poem with more
than poetry-it is prophetic.
George P. Morris. another true poet of
the past generation. IS now rapidly
being forgotten. Not few of his beautiful
thoughts still live in prominence, but com
paratively few now know whose
thoughts they are, as the following for
example:
Fare thee well-we part foreverl
All regrets are now in vain
Fate DEGREES that we must sever,
Neer 10 meet on earth again.
Other skies viii bend above thee
Other hearts may seek thy shr1 ne,
But no other e'er viii love thee
With the eonstancy OF mine
Yet farewell-We part foreverl
All regrets are now in vain.
Fate DEGREES that we must sever,
Neer 10 meet on earth again
Fare thee well!
Like the shadow on the dial,
fingers still our parting Rssl
Lie has no severer trial.
Death no pang 70 equal TINS
All the world is now before thee,
Every cline 10 roam at viii.
But within the land that bore thee
CEe fond heart viii love thee stiil.
Yet farewell-We part forever
All regrets are now in vain
Fate DEGREES that we must sever,
Ne'er on earth 10 meet again.
Fare thee well.
George P. Morris wrote only what he
felt. The writer of these short talks
knew him well personally, and could tell
an interesting story relating 70 this touch
ing little poem it would be purely story
of the past. however-all the parties cou-
cerned are now together beyond the dark
rivers
The1nan engaged in any particular call
ing that he desires to conceal from the pub
lie would do well to fight shy of literature,
for in literature it will crop out on him,
sure Take, for example, the BrieheSS
Barrister of John G.. SAKE. All persons
reading that production OF the gifted poet
would at once be convinced that John G.
SAKE was a lawyer. Then, read the second
and third stanzas as quoted in these
talks from Oliver Wendell Holmes, con-
corning the man with the hapd-organ and
monlzey-cannot you see at "a glance that
MIR. Holmes is q physician2 Such is the
fact-it is Oliver Wendell Holmes, M, D.
And thus It works in almost everything.
Some writer has said: Let me see a man
eating his dinner and can tell you exactly
what manner of man he is" We have
new idea to put in here, never before in
print It refers specially to printers. Let
us read the proofs of a large printing
Office and We can largely point out the
character of every composltor on the force.
SO marked are IneSe SnOWlngS that you
could scarcely fool u.s. We may not know
a single man among the compositors, and
the work of all may be we'll done, but if we
mark the ''talzes'' No. l, No. . and so on,
we can tell how to number each man on his
composition almost unerringly. If No. 1 is
an egotistical sort of fellow 1t shows up in
his work; if No is good. modest, we'll
nearing sort of fellow, his work shows it.;
if No is a fellow who has some fears that
ne may not be doing so well as he ought to
be doing, you may spot him all the same !;
if No. / sets copy merely to make a
''string" and don't care much about it any
way, you can easily put him down. We
put in this talk simply for the reason
that it is an Original. 4" There is no more
unerrihg index to character than the
proofs of composing room. OF course
we are having no reference to skill, but
merely to disposition. Study it, We proof
reader, and see if we are not entirely cor
rect.