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Show The aiost Popular Poem. Tho Cincinnati Enquirer answers a correspondent by saying that the most popular poem in the English language is Clement C. Moore's "Night Before Christmas." Christ-mas." We do not know that we concur in this opinion. Is Moore's poem mora Eopular than "Mary Had u Little Lamb?' iy "most popular," we tako it. The Enquirer En-quirer means the most wide'Jy known and the most frequently renated. The Mooro poem is popular only at a certain short seuson of the year; there ure other simpler lyrics that are taught tochildren every day of the year. The poem about 3Iary's lamb has been parodied oftener, i perhaps, than any other English poem; it has come to be a necessary part of one's education. Another universal poem is Watts' "Let Dogs Delight," etc., and another, an-other, "Little Drops of Water," etc., and a third, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little iSlar." These verses are known wherever the English language is spoken. Chicago News, |