Show LAPE OF AUTHORS MEMORIES 3 reat men have have been unable to expound written thoughts tha e ire arc several anecdotes which nay out the theory that a competent and rever reverent ont commentator may sometimes mos expound a work ol of genius more E than its writer himself could do especially ay such arks as tend to the allegorical when the fa famous inous in dolime was on his deathbed it Is s related that rose ot of Us followers came cama to him with tile the request that lie would explain a certain more than usually cryptic passage in his h s writings he puzzled over it to no purpose my dear el cl ildren le ie said as he be ia laid id the book feebly as aside de when I 1 wrote this I 1 understood its meaning and to no doubt the it god did ile he may still remember it but I 1 have forgotten A very similar story Is told of 0 other authors perhaps with as much truth klopstock the german poet whom his admirers compared to 1111 milton ton was once questioned at Got rottingen gottingen Gottl ngen as to the exact meaning of one ol of his bis stanzas lie he road read it over once or twice and then delivered this judgment 1 I cannot remember what I 1 meant when I 1 wrote it but I 1 do remember that it was one of the finest things I 1 ever wrote and you cannot do better than devote your lives to the discovery ot of L its meaning |