Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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TRANSLATIONS into verse, in order to pass muster, have to be very good indeed. A tolerable poem in a college paper can be excused, so long as it is original and has promise; but, versification being the only difficulty in translating, good versifying is the only merit of the translator. The thought being the only creditable part of the "The Flower and the Cloud," in the last Yale Courant, and that belonging to its original author, we can see no possible object in its publication...