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Show Declined. A young man sends us some lines which he dignifies by the title of poetry. Now we arc free to admit that "some things can be done as well as others," but this does not seem to be one of thciu. Almost any one can make rhyme after a fashion; but few arc capable of making mak-ing genuine poetry, aud wc have sometimes almost felt constrained to say we arc glad of it. It is said that all poets are more or lessinsane,and that they arc seriously allectcd by the moon and Springseascm,und just nuw the poetic fever seems to be at its height. We can stand a moderate amount of this sort of thing; but when hues are sent us that contain n-jt the slightest vestige of either rhyme or reason, wc feel constrained to exclaim, ex-claim, with Josh Billings, "Voting mnn, you may be a fool but you're no poet." We advise the writer to change his base and take n new departure. |