The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-02

r.a-and rogf. his eyes ans sssnps bis feet
like 1e.lL
The lazy, dreamy disposition. 20 'ges the
world eide" il saen-nos sosi--sn many
wars beside ;he poor victims CONTINUAL rep
etittSns ~ everything he says. and especial
~ Of -sss doesn't matter" II had a. VITA
ozee. bnt shes dead new. People said
killed her by taking 10 the black smoke.
Perhaps / did, bat IT'S SO long since thai
II doesn't matter. Nothing matters In1ch
"a rne--orly WISH Tsin-E-iaE wouldn't put
bran into the black smoke" Is not this
rot holding. as 'twers, the mirror up "a
nature.
Fer poetry The Barraek-Roon BalIass''
FIRST attracted The worlds attention -
their originality. spirit ard the human ma
tare with which they hrsrn over.
The sRecesssonai'' Ia certainly "a great
poem. carrying beneath the ''tamult" and
the shouting" an unGertone OF political
warning. What q witty well as wise
reply to the cars invitation TO the IA
tions 10 dtsarn in The Truce OF the
Bar. The lesson OF this reminds one Of
the use made. according 10 Roman history.
% the fable Of the belly and the limbs.
Nothing could be more significant and pa.
20 the times ard circumstances.
s.. too the burden OK THE White Mans
Burden fits rs just row. as well as his
own great nation, on which the sun never
sets. Il Is the price oe what IS called ex-
Birds Of Prey reminds one of Burns
Scots VIVA Haze WI Wallace Bed In its
stern bur triumphant welcome TO a worse
Yts.F sN=
THE Vampire is not pleasant, but
it Is a powerful arraignment Of folly. No
one likes 10 be called a fool, even If the
caller calls himself one, too: nor does
any one like to think OF wasting his sub
stance on foolish women. But such things
are sometimes done i'll this world Of
Things as they are not as they should
be-" and what stroke Of genius the de-
scrip;ton Of such 3 woman "a rag and
bone and hank of hair" Whoever repre-
scented the fnery. figure and the glory OF
a wornan-all departed in such few but
foreible words:
The Vampire.
A fool there was and he aside his prayer
fEsyen as you and II
To rag and d bone and hank OF hair
1--WE called her the woman who did not
carel:
cAt VIC iHos AE sHt!eG HeT iiS lazy lar
Gwen as you and ID
Oh. the years We waste and the tears we
waste.
And the work Of our head and hand
Belong TO the woman who did not know
tAnd now We know that she never could
know)
And did not understand.
A fool there was ard his goods he spent
Gwen as you and H.
Honor and faith and a sure intent
tAnd II wasn't the least what the lady
meant.
But fool must follow his natural bent
Even aa you and ID
oh. the toll we lost and the spoil we lost,
And the excellent things We planned
Belonged 10 the woman who didn't know
why
tAnd now We know that she never knew
WHY
And did not understand
The fool was stripped TO his foolish hide
Gwen as You and ~
Which she might have seen when she
threw him aside
GBut IL Isn't on record the lady tried
SO some Of him lived. but the most of
him died
Gwen you and ~
And It Isn't the shame and It ism. the
blame
That stings like a white-hot brand:
It's coming 10 know that she never knew
why
Seeing at last she could never know whyl,
And never could understand