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Show POE'S LOVE FOR CHILDREN. Preferred a Romp With Them to the Society of Their Elders. ' Edgar Allan Poe. America's most erratic er-ratic if not most brilliant poet, had the faculty of describing a character in a. single sentence, says the Chicago Chronicle. Chron-icle. Thtre was in Richmond. Va., when Poe lived there an erratic Journalist of whom Poe said: "Brilliant, yes; but so erratic that you might as well attempt to make an astronomical observation suspended sus-pended from the tail of a comet as to follow him." Poe, like Thackeray, was extremely fond of children and was most Joyous and happv in his intercourse with them. He would romp -with them by the hour and in their childish sports he would become himself a child again. Once he took in bis arms a little arirl, then about 3 years of age. with whom he had been playing, and said, his great eyes beaming with happiness: "I do not wonder that Christ said of such as these is the kingdom of heaven! Oh! that the human race could always in this world continue as pure and innocent inno-cent as this little girl." |