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$&$&?" Bfv--?" . "$ V ' W l . f THI COURIER. ,,"f,:iSTi',??S? m 1"- 5 r yv-- ,1 L if irE: ' u hard; she has done her level best to soften the feelings of her contemporar ies and failed. But she means to go on her old way at seventy-one! and if she can persuade a single soul of the reality of ideal virtue, will eay her time has not been lost. And all will come right. As for the world going to the dogs, or dying of feebleness not a bit of it. Tho groaner only echoes his own miserable condition; new force is springing up on every side of him. This sturdy optim ism can be tolerated when the experi ences of seventy-one years lie behind the speaker's words. The Bookman for March, An admirer of the poem mentioned in these columns last week questions the fairness of criticising a poem by para phrasing it. Ho said, "you can make any poem ridiculous by that treatment and by parenthetical remarks." So? Here is a book called "American Son nets," containing the best sonnets by American writers selected by T. V. Higginson and E. H. Bigeiow. In study ing them I tind them characterized by lucidity and simplicity. Paraphrase cannot make them ridiculous. There are so few inversions that a prose rend ering follows the poems word by word. Poetry is only an omission of the thes, ands and therefores of prose. Poetry is feminine, prose the masculine of lan guage. Poetry arrives in a stanza by aerial flight on the heights that prose has crawled to reach. This excellent collection has so many examples of cleanness I hesitate to select ,any. The first one by Oscar Fay AdamB, first be cause the first two letters of his name happen to be Ad, I subjoin. INDIFFERENCE. What is indifference do you ask of me? O well I know the meaning of the phrase. It is to find gray ash instead of blaze That warned you once; to lose, alas! the key Which turned in friendship's wards;.to sometime see The eyes that shone for you in other days Now coldly meet your own in passing gaze; To know that what has been no more shall be. It is to find that you in naught believe. To know that youth has fled far down the past, To feel that hope will ne'er again be born, And love is but a poor worn cheat at last. It is all this, yet not for this to grieve, To live and heed not that one lives for lorn! I have purposely chosen a little known and minor poet that the unit of measure may not appear to be selected without regard to its use. The lines of Shak peres sonnet leap like an electric spark from point to point of m .anirg. The vast prose spaces betwten are felt by the dullest even if he can not express them. Indeed to express them is to make a worm of the human mind by giving it something to crawl on. Shakspere ex hilarates by allowing his disciples to make apparently unforeseen discover ies. He does this by never allowing his theme to be blurred or confused among others quite as large and important. However ho may choose to mix his metaphors his subject never performs two simultaneously impossible actions at once. He is a miracle worker but his miracles are those of a creator .never those of the mountebank or wizard. It is interesting to find a sonnet by Daniel Webster in the aforementioned compilation, one by Margaret Fuller Ossoli, by Garrison, Allston and Parker They are probably included because of the historic interest attaching to these personages. The poems could not have ot in of themselves. They are not so "very, very good" nor yet so "horrid" either, only mediocre like the poetry that most anyone who has learnt a little trick of rhyme can make. I hope that Chancellor MacLean will not be too much impressed b the re monstranco addressed to him by the body which calls itself "The Ministerial association." Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont might as well get up a pn tion to congress and sign it "The United States of America." When three of the largest churches in Lincoln withdrew from the Minister ial association because it would not al low the Universalist minister a voice in its proceedings the body lost all repre sentative or advisory importance. The association has a right to call every body who does not believe just exactly as it does "unclean," and I presume that the Lord will not tske the trouble to let a sheet down before it, filled with other creatures into whom He has breathed the breath of life. Paul was an honest man, honest with himself and with others but a miracle would be thrown away on that part ot the ministerial as sociation which remains in Lincoln. Think of trying to convince the Rev eroao Stein and the Reverend Ludden that the Universalist church does a good work, or that they might learn much of patience and -true religion from the Catholic and Jewish churches! They have a right, I suppose, to exclude from their holy company all who do not wor ship God with their motions, but the chancellor is probably unacquainted with the history of the association and ought to know that it Joes not represent the church-goers of Lincoln. The armory is the students' and the floor thereof. They should use it as they see fit. Most ot them are working their way through school. They come from the wide prairies of the state where loneliness has made them and their mothers and fathers melancholy and awkward. The university life is one of unceasing toil. The students have a wisely unconquerable longing for the society of other young things. A month ly hop in the armory would be wholiy beneficent. There is probably no asso ciation in the state, religious, political or educational, that contains so much ot moral purpose, of heroic self-sacrifice for culture's sake as the student body of the state university. The ministerial association is influenced by political machinations as well as by financial hopes. The student body loves truth and beauty for their own sake and bo cause ot its nature and composition will never vote for any measure opposed to morality. There are vicious students as there are ministers, but the character of the ministry as a whole is unassailable only the ministerial association is not a whole. 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