Arizona republican., 1914-05-20
STEPHEN PEACOCK SPONSOR FOR NEW POET
 OF NATURE

The discovery Of poet is always joy to the cultivated world IL is. therefore with the est pleasure that able that ourselves acting quite independently and without aid from or the English reviews of the day have dis covered one. In the person MT Ram Spudd. of whose work give specimens below. feel that reveal to readers genius of the first order. Unlike one of the most recently discovered English poets, who is Bengalee and another who is full booded Yak, Mir. Spudd is believe. Navajo Indian
 What particularly like about Ram Spudd and do not say this because discovered him but because believe 1t and say it. is that he belongs to school, but to all of them. As nature poet doubt very much if he has his equal; psychologist. sure he has not As clear. lucid thinker he is undoubtedly of the first rank; while mystic he is in the very front of it The specimens of MT. Spudds which append herewith selected, are happy to assure our readers, purely random from his works. We first blindfoIded ourselves and then. standing with our feet in and having one hand tied behind back, groped among the papers on our desk before and selected for our purpose whatever specimens first to hand
 As have sad-or did say it?-it is perhaps nature poet that Ram Spudd eXcels Others of our modern school have carried the observation of natural objects to high degree of very nice precision but with MT. Spudd the observation Of human nature became almost scientific process. Nothing escapes him. The green of the grass he detects in instant The sky is sooner blue than he remarks it with unerrng certainty. Every bird note every bee call is familiar to his trained ear Perhaps we cannot do better than quote the opening lines of singularly beautiful sample of Ram Spudds genius which seems the last word Tn nature poetry It is called; with characteristic daintinesS sprinq Thaw in the Ahuntsic Woods. near Paspeb'ae
 Passam aquoddy County
 (Wewould like to say that to ears. at least there music in this title like the sound of talllng water, of chopped ice. But We must not interrupt ourselves We begin. Listen:) As consequence 1t is freezing in the shade, hut il
 is thawing in the sun.
 There is certain amount oi snow on the srouh'
 but of course not too much The air is what you would call hunlld, put not u's-
 agreeable to the touch
 Where I am standing found myself practically sur
 rounded by trees.
 It is simply astonishing the number of different va
 reties
 I've grown so wise can tell each different tree by
 seeing it glisten.
 Bu, if that fails I simply put my ear 10 the
 tree and listen
 And. well. suppose is silly fancy Of mlne per
 haps
 But do you know I'm getting to tell different trees
 by the sound of their saps After have noticed all the trees, and natned those
 know in words,
 I stand quite still and look around to see if there The thermometer standing this morning at thirty
 decimal one
 And yesterday close where was standing sitting
 in some brush the what practically absolutely certain was an
 early
 snea1ed up close and was nearly beside It
 when say.
 It turned, and took one look at me and flew away
 Stephen Leacock in. Life.