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Show WANTED A NATIONAL POET. We have many volumes of commemoration com-memoration odes" of quite respectable literary quality; but we look In vain for nn epic of tho war of the Revolution Revolu-tion which might fill each one of us with the heroic spirit and bind us all in that Jiving union of great-heartod humanity which is the supreme national na-tional pride. We look in vain for an epic on the groat Civil war, with one of the greatest of all Hgo's soldiers as Its hero; nor do wc find Immortalized Immor-talized in Aeneids those wonderful expeditious ex-peditious across this continent the travels or Lewis and Clark the settlement set-tlement of the Fort-nlnera, the opening open-ing up of Alaska, the reclamation or the deserts and the founding of Texas. Tex-as. How otherwise than through ro-otrv ro-otrv aro our children to possess tho bea'utv and tho glory and tho spiritual grandeur of the saga-flguros who foundod this marvelous union of states; of those heroes who "highly resolved" and so highly achieved. It Is true Walt Whitman chanted the song of democracy; but bis chant Is a magnificent prophecy of an Ideal U Is an exhortation, not a poetic manifestation man-ifestation The spirit that strovo and Is striving toward a realization of this democracy is best caught when exemplified In the lives and deeds of the men who lived and fought, who conquered and died righting, movod bv this spirit This is the creative work of tho poet we await Temple Scott In tho Forum |