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Show POETRY WHAT IS POETRY. - Robert L. Grafton, some of whose rhymes we once published in an unguarded moment, mo-ment, was so overcome by seeing himself in print that he threw up a lucrative position as an ore wheeler at the Hanauer smelter and has done nothing but work the rhyming dictionary since. AVe have several specimens speci-mens in our desk now and the author claims to be able to "throw off" equally fearful and wonderful effusions by the column. He should throw it off so far that its recovery wmild he iriiiirisihl( Sn.ii p k fn.n ihe following to point a moral to a young man whose lii!e may be irrevocably saddened if allowed to follow the error of his way. Robert, you are young yet. The large, heavy hand of a cruel Fate "has never beat a symphony nyon the shaded portion of your anatomy. But it. will if you don't give up writin' poetry. If your nights arc troubled by dreams, try a quart bottle of sarsaparilla. If your digestion refuses to digest use a few-bottles few-bottles of blood purifier. The sad, melancholy melan-choly cast of countenance you wear is not caused, as you imagine, by the inward workings work-ings of a divine afflatus. Afflatus doesn't work in that way your liver is out of order. Give up poetry, Bob, and there is hope for vou still. Let us have no more "pieces" called "A SriHiTVAX. ASSUFAXCB." j 1 I carry with rne a spiritual aniirnce j That, was pt;kon to me some time ago; But 1 11 110 longer keep it a eerret. As it will be a mystery for anyone to know. ' o 1 One rij;ht sb I lay in bed soundly sleeping, A spiritual voice called out o"er me, 'Robert'" soft and low ; And when I awoke, there stood the form of my anpel mother bent o'er me. Although bhe'd passed away some fifteen years ago. 3 "I feel ro sorry for you my dr boy. As you have such trials, and hardship here; The reason I re come back," she went on to say, 'Is your saddened, aud lonely life to cheer." 4 'Cher np my boy, don't be broken-hearted, What'er befalls you bear it bravely, never fear; For when you die, you'll ascend with mo up iu heaven : And receive your reward for what you've suffered here." - |