. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. PREFATORY NOTE. HE contents of this booklet were originallycommunicated to the Pennsylvania-GermanSociety, at its Annual Meeting held at Eph-rata, Pa., in October, of 1S99. The sub-stance of the address of the author on thatoccasion, on The Capability of the Pennsylvania-Ger-man for Poetic Expression, in illustration of which -anumber of the poems were read, is given in the introduc-tory essay. With one exception the poems have neverbeen printed before. They appear here for the first time,and are published according to a special resolution of
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. PREFATORY NOTE. HE contents of this booklet were originallycommunicated to the Pennsylvania-GermanSociety, at its Annual Meeting held at Eph-rata, Pa., in October, of 1S99. The sub-stance of the address of the author on thatoccasion, on The Capability of the Pennsylvania-Ger-man for Poetic Expression, in illustration of which -anumber of the poems were read, is given in the introduc-tory essay. With one exception the poems have neverbeen printed before. They appear here for the first time,and are published according to a special resolution of theExecutive Committee, and as one of the official publica-tions of the Pennsylvania-German INTRODUCTION. The Capability of the Pennsylvania-Germanfor Poetic Expression. ? ^ H ^HE verses which follow were^^ written at odd moments in anendeavor to show that the Pennsyl-vania-German as such is not incapa-ble of poetic sentiment and of beingstirred by poetic emotions, and thatthe dialect he habitually speaks is notinadequate to express those emotionsand sentiments, nor to lend itself toall the usual forms of versification, with all its require-ments of metre, rhythm, and rhyme. Until quite recent times the current conception of thePennsylvania-German has been that he is a very common-place, somewhat dull, slow and stolid plodder, albeit hon-est and thorough in all he does ; a thorough materialist,concerned exclusively with material occupations for ma-terial ends. Thanks to the labors of the Pennsylvania-German Society this erroneous notion is being pretty welldissipated. His rightful place in the political, economic,social, educational and religious history of the state and(5
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