The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-08-30
"PoEMs ASKED FOR"
Leading Citizens I'm Atchison Have
Great Yearniug for Verse.

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Leading Cifizense I'm Atchison Have
Great Yearning for Verse.
We have often referred with admi-
ration to the Kansas City Stars de-
partment headed Poems Asked For"
1t is valuable as we'll as interesting,
says the Atchison Champion. Every
body knows what 1t means to retain In
the memory a fragment of song or
poem and be unable to secure the bal
ance Of it. The Stars admirable de-
partment helps you to get the lines
you are suffering for. We have been
so much impressed by this department
that we have decided to establish a
similar one In the Champion. When
our determination was made known,
great many leading citizens sent US
communications, some of which appear
below.
N. H. Todd wants some kind friend
to send him the poem which opens as
follows:
He stood on the bridge at midnight.
As full as son of a gum
And two moons rose over the city;
Where there should have been but one.n
D. e. Good writes us: "When l was
boy was very fond of song that
was popular in those days. remem-
Der only few words of the chorus,
but In order that the measure may be
preserved interpolate sundry sylla-
bles which have no particular meaning
or relevance. If some dear sister Of
the Cozy Corner would send me the
correct words Of this beautiful song
my gratitude would be overfowing:
And If in the lumty-tum battle l fall,
A lumty-tum's all that 1 crave;
0 bury me deep in the what-you-may-call
And plant thingumbobs over my grave"
W. V. Ingham writes: II would
cheerfully pay 30 cents for the four
stanzas Of poem which moved me to
tears when was young man. have
forgotten the name Of the poem as
well as the name Of the author, but
some sister of Our Home Circle may
be able to identify the following verse,
and send me the companion verses:
took her little hand in mine,
clasped her beauteous form;
l vowed I'd shield her from the wind,
And from the worlds cold storm;
She turned her hazel eyes on me,
Her tears did wildly flow,
And with her pouting lips she said:
"Confound you, let me goy"
Capt. John Seaton sends us the fol.
lowing as the first verse of very Gu
rious poem that he knew when he was
a boy. Read 1t carefully and you will
see that 1t is simply a string of con-
Capt. Seaton informs us
that he will give a large bar of strict
ly pure pig iron to anybody who sends.
him the other two stanzas:
TITS midnight, and the setting sun
Rises in the far glorious west;
The rapid rivers slowly run,
The frog sits on its downy nest;
The pensive goat and sportive COW
Hilarious leap from bough to bough.
D. E. Farnsworth asks us to try to-
recover for him beautiful poem
which, he says has Influenced his en-
tire career. He cannot remember the
name or any Of the words of the poem,
but he would be profoundly grateful
to any person who can send the rhyme
to him.
Jacob George asks for the words Of
a poem beginning Beneath spread
ing smithy tree the village chestnut
stands"
W. R. Nelson Of the Kansas City
Star writes that he would like to CO.
operate with us in this matter of re-
covering lost poems and expresses his
anxiety to secure "a very old rhyme
which opened as follows:
She sang soprano sweetly, her voice was
like Tyre;
But one Sunday she ate onions and busted
up the choir.