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Show SHE PAVED WAY FOR POETIC I PEN TO OPEN PEN DOORS PRIMROSE ilMI. f Primrose tini in rrclani. nd m j lii bolts and iars. MeHdOwswseC with budS ubreak And miles of jauntlnscdrS? liut stay avick, the soul of me lias pone to Join the pageantry I'm drinking In th- mdsic uf the lark i Uensth tho star.-. Springtime and the shamrocks, So tender green aroo, Kvery col'.cen In th.- land And grossoon on th voo This priest to shrlvs i"- pf sfl sin, 'l'he soul f me sons journsxln' ' To where he Irish April skies Put on thc.r robe of blue. JOHN R GIA'NN. Ml.VNLAruLlS. Jan. J. Mrs- Horace Hor-ace Lowry, wife ot" the presidmit of the Twin City Rapid Transit company, read the above verses cn ihe first page of "The I'ra" magazine. lt w.c a lover of poetry i i:.. v. t to thr, editor to Isam Somsthing .t John P; Glynn: She was Informed thr. ta' poet was a prisoner t the Minnesota state penitentiary a. Stillwater. Mrs. Lowry went to Stillwater and visited Glynn. She found that ' primrose Time" waa merely one ui scores of poems he had wr:'. i BOfhe of whl'h had been printed In 1 li Mirror." the prison paper. She took copies of sever' of Ins verses to Dr. Richard Burton, pro-fessor pro-fessor of llteratjure at the (Jnlvcrslty of Minnesota, and .'iskeci bij .n. : - -ment of them. Dr. liurton vraa greatly improssed. "The author,- h-- aid. "In thc-true thc-true it amp of genius." Recently, through the aid Of .Mr. Lowry, John v. Glynn, doiii time at Stillwater for tampering with u check while be was under thr in-fltier.ee in-fltier.ee uf liquor, was given h'.s freedom. free-dom. Shortly, through ths assistance of My benefactress, Glynn's poems Were printed in book form under the title of "Songs From the Silence." and the tu-t edition ha- been sold out. His volume is dedicated to "the brotherhood In gray" with the ex-' ex-' pressed liop- that aome of them may bo Inspired his verse. r H ' |