People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — His Sonnet. [ARTICLE]

His Sonnet.

It is said that for a long time after a certain poet began to write verses he nursed his genius in secret, not daring to let his productions meet the public eye. At last, however, he composed a sonnet to the moon, with which he was so delighted that he sent it to a popular journal, and in imagination saw himself well on his way up the ladder that leads to fame. For some weeks he searched the columns of the paper for his sonnet in vain, it did not appear. At last, when reduced almost to despair, he one day in glancing over “Notice to Correspondents,” was electrified by the following paragraph: “We have received from some ono an effort at poetry, entitled: ‘Sonnet to the Moon.’ The first two lines run thus: ‘“Thou bright and silver medal, which tho night Wears on her vesture, buttoned with the stars/’ “From the figure of this couplet and the sequel, it is evident that our author is a tailor, whose goose will never waft him to the summit of Parnassus.”— Youth s Companion.