The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15

About their dim pavilions cast
Unfortunately the third line does not scan except
by poetic license making flowers a dissyllable.
Otherwise the quatrain is perfect, but l know
that Mr. Sterling cherishes certain hereto notions
about scansion Compare
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
a stately pleasure dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureess
Down to a sunless
| offer certain cunning quatrains by poet whose
name Carmel can not spell. They seem to fit the
situation at the beach:
Myself did linger by the ragged beach
Whereat after did and curl;
And as they fell they fell them hurl
message far more eloquent than speech:
I'VE that with song our pilgrimage begule
With purple islands which sunset bore
We, sunk upon the desecrating shore,
May parley with oblivion awhile.
The days are dressing all of us in white,
For him who will suspend US in row,
-, But for the sun there is no death l know
The centuries morsels of the night
McGRoARTY'S LAPSE
But the sweet singer of the southern citrus belt
the romantic McGroarty, lapses into prose and says
If you have back yard large enough to hold
chickens, seven blackberry bushes, nine rows
OF beans and dozen hills of potatoes, what need
you care?
While on the subject of California poets a Chi
cago humorist gives this free advertisement to John
Vance Cheney:
MIL-TONIC
To sport with Amaryllis in he shade
Or with the tangles OF Neaera's hair
Poetic hair, luxuriant and sheeny,
She uses tonic brewed by John Vance Cheney.
NO DOUBT
California, we learn from the Carmel Whirl is
certain to become the great art center of America
The climate breeds poets and tramps. In the
intervals of song and praise Mike Williams IS
growing radshes, to which he points with pride
as his visible means of subsistence. He raised one
and ate it all himself No evil fate the future may
hold in store can ever deprive him of that radish
A LOS ANGELES QUARREL
It is nearer truth than poetry wnen Harrison
Gray Otis and E. T. Earl go to paying compli-
ments. Thus Earl:
The chief motive that animates the Times in
its hatred of the public schools, in its incessant
effort to do them injury, in its opposition free
education, springs from this-that the egregious
vanity of its puffy proprietor, his intolerable wind
blown arrogance and insufferabe stuffed pomposity
pricked by the superintendent of the public
schools For the gratifcation Of this personal
enmity to feed this private spite and bandage up
his wounded and preposterous vanity, H. G.. Otis
repays community that has converted the poor
employe of the government print shop into rich.
man by striking frantic blows at its children
Otis in reply:
Pishl Too contemplate for ordinary words
is the nasty attack of the little Cypress upon
the boys and girls in the Imf n scholarship
large number of subscribers and the Cypress is
losing, the Inscriptions little sheet, in vicious
article full of low cunning and of malicious men
dacity as to what the Times has said spits out its
spite on these young people who are helping them
selves, while the Times IS helping them get
education. What impested cur E. Toopious isl
He needs insect powder.
How these Los Angeles folk love one another.
THE WILD ASS OF SAN BERDOO
Chief Justice Beatty is credited with the remark
that before the people can expect greater expedi-
ton OF legal process they must put bride on the
pernicous activity of the legislature which works
overtime cluttering up the statute book with use
less and confused legislation 1t is point well
made. 1t seems as if no bill is too foolish to get
a favorable hearing from the collective wisdom OF