The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-06
A CAUTIOUS CRITIC
He DaIIies With Some Noted
Verse Makers and Kicks.
TOO MUCH POETIC LICENSE.


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'I've been dipping into poetry re-
marked the casual caller, mot as
writer vou understand. but rs n read
or A. that fhinl, ! could do rs we'll
T.. can, oe ,no,,.is 7 could olso writa
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ne mere Vcf$ihtf must SUCK 10 Ill
I the rules o. The game or be treated as
q joke, lat .ie fellow who can get
across wit' The idea that he's n real
poet cen Hia',e bis own ruleS ana take
Sri.sr 'll a'11iI make II gargoyle
usIti~ri l..ase,l, which no one
cou'i = :csrar journeyman
poets ra.r
''.ai.a '.7'eA.lrar' for instance:
SO liat 10 ne Group the fair lady he
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no" '"'a ne "sN you mat.
~ IA ~ ltthH 'f-hN lhIHi4lNu bON 'clih
he spring q he saddle without kick
ing her Oh IN the aet-unless he mount
ed baeliwadG And who but a poet
himself would license poet to make
his hero do such Il fool thing ms that?
Those Netherby people would have
died laughing at the spectacle. And
that's only the start, for we also have:
and save his good broadsword he weap-
ohs nae none, 1,
'4o a JoT
"cn,r isp.t - En- craoi. q man nm nc
ridirg nn.rn,nd whan ho CARRIED -
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And with his harness on his back.
Plunged headiong in the tide
"Can you imagine it; 4 man with a
couple OF tons Of iron attached to his
Eerson and very likely spiked helmet
diving head first into river, Why.
he'd have spiked himself to the bottom
so hard that he'd be there yet, It's
supremacy ridiculous, and no one but a
major poet would have dared even hint
at such Il thing. What Horatius really
did if he bl1 the sense of n brass nun,
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was s''liiil7 O"ni 80 VA q" p'i
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nc era,,, was ne"F''S i"ue''' 80 'e' nay
Climbing the grading slowly till we reach
ed the upland's crest
II nut that up to railroad man once
and he told me with much emphasis
that any engineer who let his engine
rest on an upgrade with heavily load
cd train would be chased Off the right
OF way with bricks-if he got his train
through. which he probably wouldn't.
rho .bo,cas ore tba .roin would. slim
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p"NA "nu pile w III :" ui.en SUNNI iie'e
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W! li"u oVon ~ III muse anu inv
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iusei ~ ~ 'ne '''i'ien s"o MN pe
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