Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-20
THE PEOPLES POET.

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Dead by mule. a martyred CLARION.
man,
AT patriot since the end doth glorlfy
A mausoleum hath old Ragbag built
AS tribute to Tomato Kahn's brave
At morn at night his bitter tears are
The fair Amlrie wears a widows
weeds.
Nothing that Field wrote in Denver
provoked more laughter than his "Tn
re Spring, ascribed to Judge g. q
symes. o pompous deep-voiced lawyer
VINO subsequently was elected to Con.
gfess.
whereas, on sundry boughs and SPRAYS.
Now divers birds are heard 10 Sing
And sundry flowers their heads uprlse.
Han to the coming on Of Spring!
me songs of the said birds arouse
The memory Of our youthful bours
As young and green as those said
boughs.
As fresh and fair as those said flows
ers
The birds aforesaid. happy pairs.
Love MIDST the aforesaid boughs en-
In household nests, themselves, their
heirs
Administrators and assigns.
o, busiest term Of Cupids Count
Nhen tender plaintiffs actions bring;
Season Of frolic and OF sport.
Han! as aforesaid, coming spring.
Fields ability as a punster and trick
versllier INDUCED without restraint at
Denver repressed at Chicago and az
terWard delicately revived in the para
! phrases Of Horace Is fairly illustrated
IN the following.
Suppose" he said, In accent soft,
"a fellow just like me
Should axle little girl to wed.
what would the answer be-"
The maiden drops her liquid eyes,
Her smiles with bushes mingle,
why seek the bride halter when
You may love on sur, cingle?"
And then he spoke "Oh, be my bride,
ask you once again
You are the empress Of my heart
And there shall ever rein!
"Tll never tire Of kindly deeds
To win your gentle heart
/ And saddle be the shaft that rends
Our happy lies apart
| Upon her cheek the maiden felt
The mantling bushes glow.
| She took him for her faithful hub,
To share his wheel or whoa.
Although the Denver volume discloses
! the crudeness and Aippancy Of much u
! Fields earlier verslflcation. It win serve
| 70 prove the expansion Of his talent un-
/ der severe study and with happy en-
| yironment At first loose and vulgar in
| composition, needless Of literary grace
! or elegance, he became I'm time stick
Ter for all the verbal niceties of ex-
| preston, delyed 10 the depths of phi
| biological technique. and eventually
/ prided himself on his acquired knowl-
edge OF the shade meaning Of words.
! His Yyetot a fanciful Saxon legend,
| the rounding out OF which occur ia his
] spare moments for a year. he priced as
/ his greatest literary achievement Ca
| pacity for work be- regarded as his only
! genius He fattered himself. Justly,
! that he could initiate or paraphrase all
! the poets. His mastery OF the style OK
! Horace. Heine Beranger, Nillon. Hugo,
| Dr. Watt Chaucer Spencer Butler and
| English folk lore, was complete The
| Horace Of himself and his brother Ros-
! we'll now the editor Of Youths CONF
panion.' is considered the best In Eng
| lish. once he composed q number ~
/ hymns. after Watt, had them published
I'm the New York Sun as the posthu-
nous discovery OF the London Stand
ard. and the literary sharpers Of Chi
| cage. in a series Of interviews In the
/ News, agreed that they must be genu-
inc. Their chagrin may be imagined
when the joke was exposed
| Although vershcati0n was easy TO
| Field. story writing and dramatic COM
| position tortured him. he wrote two
| acts Of a comic opera, "The Begun"
and then destroyed the manuscript
| All OF his allegorica tales were re-
! written many times and then rarely
satisfied him. The Wer.WOlf for
| which Edward Box paid $500 after
| Fields death. he rewrote eight times.
and then cast aside as unfit FOR publ
cation. ! have the fourth manuscript
and it Is mars Of erasures and inter-
| lineations.
Fields fertility as a maker Of copy
/ was phenomenal, and renders the hui
NOR polish and excellence OF so much
that he wrote. the more marvellous.
/ Slason Thompson, who explored the
"Sharps and Flats columns OF the
I News files FOR SCrlbners informs me
that by actual measurement-and this
does not include the stories and maga-
zine works-Field wrote In eleven years
600 600 words. As near as can be esti-
mated. be produced. In all classes on
work during eighteen years. more man
10 000 600 words or lH volumes, Of $50
pages OF bourgeois each.