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Show What Would Bryant Say? "To him who in love of nature hold cemmunion with her visible forms, sh speaks 9 various language." So wrote William Cullen Bryant in his famed poem "Thanatopsis," published pub-lished in 1817. Cargill, the cartoonist, cartoon-ist, takes this quotation as the caption cap-tion for a recent cartoon depicting a motorist wending his way through a maze of biDbnards, which also "speas a various language," ranging from praise of El Punko cigars to an invitation in-vitation to patronize the Rowdie Dow dance hall. In terms more eloquent than pages of text, the cartoonist characterizes the present disgraceful marring of natural scenery by blatant and offensive offen-sive billboards, which not only obscure obs-cure the beauties of nature, but are in many instances a menace to traf- tie. What would Bryant, poet and nature na-ture lover, say if he were to come back seeking inspiration for a modern "Thanatopsis?" |