Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-20
PSYCHIC PROPHET"
STIRS PENN CAMPUS
Samples of Free, Very Free,
Verse, Strangely Signed,
Excite Students


on the campus of the University OF Penn
syNania. That's the name he calls himself
and nobody around the University feels safe
in contradicting him.
As yet the newcomer has been seen by
no one (; indeed, he had never been heard of
until this week. but from present indications
he will soon be Philadelphia as we'll as a
college celebrity.
So far nobody pretends to understand the
=. p. OF p, but. they say in apology,
Nobody expects to understand the best of
new poetry and the least ineligible it is
the better
As yet only three gems from the pen OF
this new gqnlus have been discovered at
Penn. All were typewritten and two of them
were unsigned but at present students and
faculty alike who are interested at all in
the poetizing art edge with impa-
tence for some new development.
The first OF the three poems was found in
the farthest recess of the most retired al
cove Of the library. II appears to be. so
general opinion agrees, the new poets greet
ing to Philadelphia, II, as is thought. he is
stranger from "cimes unknown Thus the
poet rhapsodizes on the city of Penn;
Scanning the mater i0dres.
A'break across the blVe-greoh oigae Of
predatory
Politics,
Can toe see the heart Of thee,
or only think ice seer
As the garden SnGt'-yed, eVeB the ting
garden snail
WHO erddicates the toothsOme Jeds or
maSticdtcS
The pridejul pea,
10 M, -, yI., al.
HoW eau a COsDiic Globoid feH'"
Somebody at the, University was cruel
enough to declare that this specimen OF the
Cosmic Globoid's verse reminds him of
seed catalogue, but that is unjust TO the
new genius.
Second Message Discovered
At the other extreme of the campus, just
outside the door Of Botanical Hall, the sec
ond message from the p. p. Of p, like the
first, untitled and unsigned, was found late
yesterday afternoon.
1t appears to be intended as in honor OF
the newly rushed freshmen, but no one has
as yet entirely decphered IT, This is how
the poet sounds wheli he gets on subjects of
local interest:
"Oh 0lotoa0 oHes. most hotly. brightly
glotciR0 oIes
FancUm phantasics Of a le,vid phGwas-
HId0Oridi
PheHomenon--
BeUdre!
The snOWs Of 'ointer. aye, the miokcSs
SnoWs OF
The most pi'itry t1inter
Are as nau0ht, or less than Haught beside
What ioiH be betaH
Yott-yo1L-you,
Aerial ar0oSies cannot saue nor jRgger.
uautS dpdiL
When comes tho ni0ht
The night of nights itself
When mystic rites entaH0le
And you no longer are yourself, the petted,
patted,
Friend Of all the Gods.
But only good, yea, alas, are only good
TO fr the furnace"
Poet Hints at Identity
This morning shortly before chapel di-
recty in front of College Hall steps, a third
innocent piece of paper was discovered this
time capped with the fateful signature,
Psychic Prophet of Poetry, and which con-
tanned four short lines, written with the
usual direct and simple vigor of the new
poetic genius. They are;
"I am that oHe-bur not he alone
Most positively not, for he Is NOT like me
More than Boisheyik, yet not as much
For BolshepikS are such as one can see
But I--not so, most certaflIu not So
am the i0ind that rIstleS dotDn Uoai,- ,leoI,
As you standing toditin0 for rhe r. r.
am the Utad, the rain, the topnIost specE
Of all
al. the psychic prophet Of all poetry
Now everybody at the University is looking
further deVelODmenta