Show MAKING POETRY there Is I 1 often irl hard clork ad J well as a there nrc are yet some persons pen ons left who faney that eliat poetry is the product of a tine rne frenzy that the poet of genius awakes from a sublimated cataleptic trance to fill page after page with effortless fort less beatitudes A number of manuscript sheets of Long fellows ex calior celi col bior or which may be found in harvard should not only explode this theory taco writes a boston correspondent b but t give VL hope to many a discouraged amateur m As longfellow Longfe lloy first constructed ted the birst verbe ot of this poem it ran the shades of 0 night were falling fast fait As through an alpine billage passed A youth who as the peasants wag sung responded in nil an a tongue excelsior this was manifestly weak is as tile the only obvious reason why the alpine peasants sung was that they might ifford afford a rhyme for the youths response luau iu an unknown tongue A second trial at t the A erse however not only failed to improve it but arranged it in such huch form that it is difficult to believe longfellow g guilty of the fault the two last lines of treverse th the verse everse were made to read A youth who tore bore a pearl of price A banner with the device there are arc not many even among the magazine ma azine poets of today to day who would cament to refer to a banner as a per pearl art of price hut but the poet hid by b this time three lines to his li liing and the substitution of a youth u ho bore mid snow and ice completed the cre ere as isit it has been read and throughout abrou bout the length and breadth ot of the land all of which goes to show that the genius of the poet is i in tit tin conception and that the production ol of the poem being quite another matter lies solely in the direction of patient labor |