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Show l'ootry. A young lady a.sks if we think alio can write poetry, and vvu answer yes. It's easier than skinning eU. Go up iu the garret, bit down ou a broken chair, mo a broken legged table for a desk, and then start out like this Th'To wa. u-i uncivil Ioiu'.t - Mt'L'nukt I mi i liini now , Siui-ij; -v liit c ktnn .l -.r itti r.irr.MVi j:i hit In w. 1 1 you don't likowtiting that kind of poetry start out iu this strain Oj,v! to know Hutu's mio fond lioirl II, au ov.t Ira" to m; It -i-U i ui mi li'spm lun a lyro In wcotcaL nu'loJy. It in w be your laVcs do not fancy lint style; if not, run along A wim m-m to market Hint, nil t. on hit . liouKlr; ' If Vi-nm ttiroA-te rv, r m. tniU- iu.r - Or WljJoill all(lli Uli olilif. Vile last is the easier kind of poetry to write. Alter you have couiposiil leur or live thousand verMsyuu miglit turn your attention to writing epitaphs epi-taphs lor your dead friend. Tuat class of writing is a tnlle more ditll-cult, ditll-cult, Btill it will flow rciul ly when you get used to i(. Think of your subject and then start out aj if von were in j ear ne : I AU ! wliy should I cry to day i For out w li. cu .1 no 1.,; Puy ' Ou- 1 til,, lhon s!i Th clnM eonlJ rvl.wi i wriUMiJ , CcuKl tAV her "Utnos" vo-y woll, Atid piny on m piano 1 Oh ! M.'.t hu: U,t u ii ! V Ito pi aj a n. w ii- avyri'i pitno. You can write poetry. All you I reipiire is to jiial oil down and do it. |