Show the good gray poet walt wall whitman tile american poet la Is but little known to uio tile people of the old country and in tho united states the place of his birti and of his love it may be I 1 eaid said with truth a ie is not appreciated to tile extent ho lie ought to bo be this may be accounted for in some degree by tho the fact that his writings are of a somewhat Boroo what eccentric kind aut this walt watman asin is in eve every respect a most remarkable map man a and 11 jy 0 ono no whose personality and writings in a r 0 well worth knowing fo some m e rough notes an on ilia his work w ar together with a hasty sketch of his career may inay theresey ther efey be interesting to your readers adera re tho a good gray poet oct iv wai n born at ram Pam long inland d j in n the tile S state tato of new york in ili 1819 hu ho was still a child listening to the soothing soot lung rustle of the waves aves and inhaling the odor of the edge edge meadows tiam lam digging barefoot bi with pants pints rolled up tumbling on oil the hay fishing in tile ponds or making fiort noy voyaged es in ill tho tile pilot boat boats bis parenia moved to brooklyn here still amid aril rural scenery and within easy reach of the BOB ima walt wait whitman spent ills his youth and aila days and served his ap apprenticeship m ns printer and find journalist st between 20 and 32 years of age ho lie lind had travelled through many of tile states and thereby gained know fedgo of men and of work which arc are shown in every page of his writings in 1855 lie proceed ins 1118 most fa moua book leaves of grass chilling ng and cold enough N was as its race reception ti 10 11 to have frozen the poetic fount 0 of any rl man heart was less warm a and az manly than his on the outbreak of the civil war ivar whitman hurried to the front where he lie served with all ilia devotion and tenderness of his great ea nature na ure as nurse to the wounded how keenly he felt the painfulness of f his ilia task may bo be gathered from the following lines the crabbed held I 1 dreis poor crazed hand tear not the bauda e aw a ay sy the nock ol 01 the cavalryman cavalry man nian with the bullet buli I 1 et through and I 1 through hard the breathing rat rattle em quito quite glued already the eye yet life str tru tulen hard co corn ewett sweet earth be bo persuaded Q beautiful elul death lu ill mercy come quickly I 1 iam am faithful I 1 do not give glye out the this fractured thigh the knee the abo wound in ibe the these and faoro I 1 drw dress with hand band yet deep la in ray breast a are a burning flame this work undoubtedly broke down his splendid constitution and loft left him an 1 invalid and its ti aces are it is raid palpable in his face and figure il m lie ile nisio also served as a government f clerk is rl forbore time but the anointment appointment ointment was taken from him aV by v certain e squeamish queaa A im mor alitta alib objected to ins Is advanced notions on on the physical dignity of fiuman humanity it S since 1 I 1 n e ti alien let walt whitman lias has lived almost M st in in poverty a poverty made nona the less bitter tr from nl the neg neglect icet almost universal of his work ho ile has won tile admiration of such men as emerson En ierson pres lincoln ruskin and yet ye t lie lias liar failed to reach lie tile class for wi eliom lie sacrificed hie his lealah and his genius the great denlo democracy crACY of qt the world orld p better idea of ins his life may inay be gathered from a few lines of his poetry than from any amount of dry detail 7 darting from fish absee litre I 1 wa as born well eg ottell and raised by apere a cl mother mot ner after ro many land loi ion e of f populous pavements paye mente ments dweller deper in mandatta Man wan hatta batts ray my city or on southern iSar annas 0 or r a soldier camped arcu or carrying ing my knap kack back and CUD gun or a miner rila in Villi california fornis 0 or rude rde in lay itly home in dakota s wood my diet meat most my eny drauk from the pring or withdraw to mils mus and meditate modi tate in tonie some deep recess far from the clank ciani nf n crowds intervals Inter calu pasting rapt and happy aware kware 0 ot tte be fresh tree free river the flowing Ul naurl aware of niagara awn aware r e of buffalo herda grazing on the plains piston the hirsute and trong bell ball of 01 earth rocki fifth month mouth flowers experienced barq rain rata now my a amabe a n tfx the 1116 moo aird r a annl th abe e night of the mountain rs hawk hak and he rd a at duk tho the unrivalled cpuz one the hermit thrush front the swamp cedars solitary in the tilt wet 1 I strike UP tor a blew world probably one of lie the chief causes uses of whitman failure to catch the public oar car lies in lie ha Bume what A hat peculiar form lie ile hoa has chosen for alie expression ot his thoughts lie ile has even beyond milton in his contempt for forthe tile ingle of like endings ending slie he has abandoned both rhyina and rhythm tm his poetry Is neither verse nor bank blank terso nor prose and krikes the general geni gelli era I 1 reader aa as being nor flesh nor fowl nor ni good red herring tile east and west are mine hd writes and 1 lia brings a subtle aroma of to fil flavor I 1 tho ideas of lie the new world la work suggests recollections recollection of the artl great tt master of the hebrew Scrip it maybe may be however b 0 that this faivor fla voir in i the western estern poet ariew ans in soiha measure ine from his manner which makes his linea lines read like a prose translation of an eastern poem loth as aslam I 1 am to leave the good gray poet still it trust oven bo be so but yi I 1 munt ae ghe a selection from his Dram Taps ia a graphic and thrilling war song a marching song that ma marches relies with all its feet beat beat dru sl ablow blosl 1 blow through the windows window through atio 0 doors butt like it le a ruthan ruth ass force into the tile colemn church end scatter the con e catlon ar ato ahe w chool school where the scholar li is lug ig lt leave we not the lule 10 m talt quit no ba api nei neis taut be ue now aavo with his bride kor the peaceful farmer any suy plough son ing his hi field or ga herlog bit his grain so fiem elle you VA w r aa a ami A pouted drum go 0 o bria brill y you bugl deall beall beat drums Blow bugle bugles blosl make lie 10 parley r le atop tor for no expostulation uund not the h e timid mind dot not the he weeper or prayer rarer not tile th old man bestic hing the young man let le not the childs voice be heard nor the mothers hers entreaties even the to the deab lie awalt ng the h harta so Soi trong th thoa thump 1 Ot eark erble b had e rum 0 o loud yo you u bugle T les blow there arc are many a walt now published iet let I et your read ere era who aro ara 0 of what is manly and good gi purchase so one ct of them and an study stud it with v ill a sympathy tit and care tat and the they will sill only have themselves to blame if f they do not confess walt whitman a man worth know knon ing 1 they varo A a I 1 IV at A t a late aa sunday di diona when the door bell rang and the servant se liam handed IM a card ard C to the inifi tress of the hatim good gracious aho the a ex laimer lai iva it our car minister and ive been eating onions I 1 never mind my dear r replied e plied her husband you need no not t ats N h him today to day 11 |