Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — A RARE POEM. [ARTICLE]

A RARE POEM.

It Was Written by a Poet Who Has Since Won Fame. In the house of a gentleman in th s city, says the Kokomo, Ind., Dispatch, we saw a poem written on the fly leaf of an old book. Noticing the initials “L. A. P.” at the bottom, it struck us that p'ossibly we had run across a bonanza. The owner of the book said that he did not know who was the author of the poem. His grandfather, who gave him the book, kept an inn in Chesterfield, near Richmond, Va. One night a young man who showed plainly the marks of dissipation rapped at the door, asked if he could stay all night and was shown to a room. That was the last they saw of him. When they went next morning to call him to breakfast, he had gone but had left the bpok, on the fly leaf of which he had written these ven -