| Show p 0 SOME CALIFORNIA POETRY m HE m HERALD BEGS TO ACKNOWLEDGE GE the theP T I I receipt P of Jf an SU esteemed volume volum of jw tey f from rom 1 California Cali ornia It is entitled e Turquoise and Iron The author is Lionel J and A M IL Robertson of San Francisco is the publisher Like Lika the tramp in inthe in inthe inthe the soap advertisement dY we rise to bear testimony tee mony that t anyone who reads one of Df Mr liEr pomes will win winI I read no DO others that is none written by Jo JoI The book starts out with a stirring irring s tribute to The I Winged Heart It begins Hail HaU thou thuu my heart That bat with rapid winge wings apart Upward without cause eans or t care car Iest fest the last air uld anything be lovelier I In fancy w we can see that heart Sitting through the atmosphere singing a amerry amerry amerry merry lay From shave above the tho clouds cloud srn the e sweet music of its while the ie from whose fond bosom it i has lias flitted goes goes heartless through his daily grind wind But flut the pete pote J ote satisfied to let that heart of 01 his lus continue its it wanderings Fearful perhaps that it itin nay may in a be corralled and branded by seine som sprite prie of the upper regions ho he Jets lets out ant a 1 yell lIti thou wildly winging heart W the stars or ie Iff 1 l falling clouds louds thou art Downward D to my vacant breast breast t Come and know now mft n for r thy tIt j Folded be thy wings win rg and dreams ts and long on be thy rest It certainly looks as if any old heart would like a arest arest rest 1St after arter 4 i l soaring stunt And it isn t natural for a aman am man m to go around with a vacant breast either Now if it was as a vacant stomach that troubled him it would be easy for fr the hoi polloi to understand Something must be wrong with a man mait who lets his heart get away from lOl fc hi bun in steh st h fashion anyway Why Jo J 0 look after his old heart Had he kept it impounded rd within his chest it would have saved everybody evel body a lot Jot of trouble The Tb pome ponie runs rUBS through I Ol good long lOll verses A careful reading fails to enlighten us as to what happened to t Joe Jee J ea In the thelast thelast thelast last verso verse verso he is still standing around waiting for his heart to come corae home He really deserve to have havea a heart heartH If H ever he Ite does get got it back we advise him to hitch a weight to it such as they use to hold bold livery delivery d horses in cities That ought to lv ld any heart beart en earth e rth even if it had llad a k gasoline motor and a screw propeller in ad addition I to rapid wings 0 I |
