Show STRANGE inspiration A new york who dreamed remarkable hoem A new yorker famous in the world of letters awoke ono night recently from a sound sleep so far as he knew world he had not been dreaming iio composed himself again and was sinking into slumber when there camo into his mind aa though out of tho darkness two lines of verse rhythmical but senseless they kept him awake and after a time two lines more equally smooth and absurd presented themselves to his consciousness it seemed to him as though some ono ono were dictating nonsensical doggerel to him from the shadows of the unable to sleep be arose and went down shaira to his library lie sat quiet in the darkness for awhile hoping that bo would fall asleep in his chair but second verse perfect in form but absurd in meaning came into his mind and then a third and fourth lighting lamp he took up a pen and wrote down rapidly the lines that had come to him As he new verses fell from his pen and when he bad finished his task a poem of eight stanzas lay batore him he was surprised to find that taken in their entirety the verses were far from meaningless he at once put the poem in an envelope and directed it to a publishing firm placing it among other letters to be mailed by servant in the morning he returned to bed and at once fell asleep upon awaking he was uncertain whether he had dreamed of writing a poem or bad really transcribed on As his letters had been posted he had no means of deciding the question his uncertainty was pleasantly relieved the next day however by the receipt of handsome check from his publishers and a letter praising his poem the peculiarity culi arity 0 this case which makes different from the celebrated instance of coleridge and his poem of kablau khan lies in the fact that the author had not been dreaming he awoke from what seemed tu him a dead sleep and found that his imagination had produced without conscious effort on his part perfect poem |