Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Poetry or Nothing. [ARTICLE]

Poetry or Nothing.

“See here,” said a citizen of St. Louis to the proprietor of a book stored “you’ll have to take the book back, 3} asked yon to give me a volume of poe- | try to put on the parlor table, but eyeryj durnedword in this book is straight prose.” “Why, man, alive, that was written by Shakspeare.” “I don’t care who wrote it, it’s prose; I’ve looked it all through. For instance, here’s a specimen: *• How silver sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, Like soft music to attendin ears 1 “Do von call that poetry, rhymin’ ears with night? Yon can take it back. I don’t want it.”— New York Times. Insult not misery, neither deride infirmity, nor ridioule deformity; the first shows inhumanity; the second, folly; the third, pride.