Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OP WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OP WALT MASON

' How' hegutiful thU old world la, along abotM this time of y«*rt 1 look around and cry, "Gee whla! It makes me glad just to be here! I would not give a picayune for one who lets the teardrops leak; these are the famous days of June, of which the well known poets speak.’ In all the ages bards have spieled about this season’s Joys and charms, have sung the lilies of the field, and handed nosegays to the farms. Inspired by June, the poet squirms, and, like the groundhog, leaves his hole, and chants a lay In ringing terms, with all the fervor of his soul. And though we pelt the bard with bricks, because we're down on odes and things, he voices thoughts that we poor hicks can’t give expression, when he sings. In June we all would poets be, If we knew how to handle lyres; the brooks, the woods, the flowery lea, all serve to light poetic fires. Emotions strange our bosoms thrill; we wish we had a harp or pen, and we'd embalm the sunlit hill, the zephyr singing through the glen. We’d like to voice the thoughts that throng, about the landscape and the skies; we strive to plan a noble song, and end by saying, "Dern the files!”