Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-04-18
With Scissors and Paste
MINDoM.PANE POETS.


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Throughout the country. particularly
4 in the smaller towns and villages.
there stlll remain many inns and old
tayerns on whose window panes have
been scratched rhymes. verses and
eplgrams by people who afterwards
became, or who were at the time
more or less famous
The poet Burns was what might b.
termed great Offender" in this re-
Ispect-one wonders where he pro-
cured the necessary diamond-and
several Of his glass-borne rhymes
have been preserved to this day. It
was on window Of the old Globe inn.
Dumfries-a fayorlte resort Of his
that he inscribed the well known trib-
ute to the beauty Of the young daugh.
ter Of the factor Of Closeburn estate,
near Eliisland.
O lovely Polly Stewart,
o charming Polly Stewart
There's not a flower that blooms In
May
That's half so fair as thou art.
on another occasion the poet was
dining at the inn at Moffat. when the
charming lovely Davies Of one Of his
songs rode by, accompanied by a lady
tail and portly A friend who was
with him asked why God made tho
one lady SO large and the other 50
little. Whereupon Burns scratched
the following on the pane at his ell
bow
Ask why God made the gem so small,
And why SO huge the granite?
because mankind meant mankind
should set
The higher value on It.
No one has apologized more pretuly
for those Of "scrimpit stature"
ON the inn parlor window at Mold
In Flintshire. are the following lines,
which are attributed to Sheri ian.
We're l 10 curse the man I hate
From youth till I grow old.
OH might he be condemned by Fate
To live his life in Mold.
While on pane OF glass in the par
Tor window of the Red Lion at Henley.
Shenstoue, the English poet. scratched
the following
/ fly from pomp, I fly from plate
/ fiy from Falsehood's spccious grin
Freedom ] love, and form ] hate.
And choose my lodgings 81 ana
inn
Whoe'e has trayerI LIES duh round. !
Where'er his stages may have been.
May sigh 10 think, he sull has found /
The warmest welcome Mt an inn.
A verselet which is both amusing
and true may be seen on a window +
pane in a hosiery in the lake dis
riet in the neghborhood of the
Langdale Pixies. It runs as follows.
Little bits of Iangdales.
Little bits OF Piloes.
Make the little tourists
Walk their little bikes.
Advertisement not infrequentlv
finds place among the juggling Pc
RODS Of a pthy rhyme. as Is evident
from the practical advice given be
low. The landlord himself claims the
Of the lines, which are
both original ana amusing in style +
Should you start With your clothes
a size on two large.
You will find when you've dined al
this inn
Your buttons rs of like a cavalry
charge.
Aud you'll have 10 make fast with
a pin
Don't grim
But be sure 20 lay pin or two In.
The following. Inscribed on the cof.
tee-room window Of a Thamos-slde
tavern. was promptly removed by the
landlord, who, however. sdm pre-.
serves the cut-out pane as curiosity /
behind the bar
told the waiter James
To fetch for my piohn'
Some Bcaume og 81
And a tender little chicken.
lie took my order in n trice,
But as ] hope for heaven.
Tho wine was bottled Ia tho spring
The bird was $50.