. Newspaper poets: or, Waifs and their authors . with a holier mien, and gentler talk,Will tell my story to the friends I meet— Of how the King did stoop His name to write Upon my brow, in characters of light ! Then, till I go to meet my Fathers smile, I 11 keep my forehead smooth from passions scars, From angry frowns that trample and defile,And every sin that desecrates or mars ; That I may lift a face unflushed with shame. Whereon my Lord may write His holy name. There are some who beUeve that nothing is trulypoetical in which the heart shows chiefly. We do not •—: ^ —-^^^ MA V RILE V SMITH
. Newspaper poets: or, Waifs and their authors . with a holier mien, and gentler talk,Will tell my story to the friends I meet— Of how the King did stoop His name to write Upon my brow, in characters of light ! Then, till I go to meet my Fathers smile, I 11 keep my forehead smooth from passions scars, From angry frowns that trample and defile,And every sin that desecrates or mars ; That I may lift a face unflushed with shame. Whereon my Lord may write His holy name. There are some who beUeve that nothing is trulypoetical in which the heart shows chiefly. We do not •—: ^ —-^^^ MA V RILE V SMITH. 17 estimate poets by this rule. It would rob Burns, andByron, and Moore, and Hood of half or all their begotten of passion is evei debasing; poetry bornof real heartfulness ennobles always and uplifts. MayRiley Smith, then, is a truer poet than is Swinburne, be-cause truer to the purest instincts of the soul; and Long-fellow and Bryant are not truer than she, unless they havemade deeper impress on the heart of o.^ f \ ::=:^ ::^ «^ LEWIS J. BATES.
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