| Show COAT COATES ES kanney tito tho author AIM or of the dorni TI tile rain on tile kunf tho name or of coate kinney in the august number of harpers and the kiugo of melancholy anil and pensive sentiment Benti ment in tho poem to which it is attached bring to many old leaders tile tho pica pleasant sant knowledge that tile tho author of tile thu rain on tho the noot is still all the same saino lit in mind that lio bat was tome to doity ty 3 cars ngo ago As a 11 student in the Waynes villo 0 academy I 1 0 o then acquit acquitted acquited ed boine faine among his fellow students indents as n writer of lilo most youl young ig s C 1 lo 10 0 iti me poets liis his effusion sentimental rather than apical and a wite wife ant iii 1 1 M I 1 P t 4 q COATES KINNEY KIEY mother of today either remembers or has treasured tm up nil and laid away poems full of 0 sentiment which were ad d diessel i essed to them by tho the rhymester ster coates kinney ile he caught an inspiration ono night while trying tomoo to woo sleep in tile tho ol oli old I collego dormitory and put on paper that beautiful bit of verse c I tho rain on oil the roof this poem mail mad coates kinney famous it began traveling in awl ami is if on the jo journey urney yot yet who doea not remember it when the humm shadows bover oser all the blai j y i A anil ad the melancholy dark darkness nesi gently firmly cops in tears what a LIs to pre pran the ibe pillow ot of a bed and lio lie listening lisl culos to the ratter iatter OS of the tott boft rain the author has very little poetry and ail no great amount of alobe yet several of his hia productions will live lio he was born near penn yan yates county N Y nov 2 24 was taken to ohio quito quite young antl aal got his college education at antioch Antio cli college yellow springs ile ho studied law with the famous tom corwin Cor winand anti practiced a 1 little then turned his attention to journalism i and finally gained wealth and the title of colonel by four years in tho the army as a paymaster lie was a delegate to tho republican national convention of 1603 1668 and a member of the ohio senate senate in S ile ho lives in in an ele c lagant 0 ant residence lesi dence in xenia 0 and lives w well ell having acquired one moderate fortune and married a lady with av another iother the daughter of a banker named allen alien ile iio is described as keln keen ad and witty in conversation and quite lite ai a agi i ele enable able save when his talk takes ona oita sarcastic tone in fact his opponents in discussion insist that lo be puts almog altogether more acid in his talk than is ia desir desirable ablo lie ile has hag one married and one dinglo daughter arid and has always been domestic in his habitan li abets not ot at nil lill ambitious and not inclined to lard hard work |
