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...which presumably was thought to be the excuse for publishing the verse. For in point of fact it is not accurate. Its implications, as far as they can be translated into English, are nothing more nor less than slanders. Take for example the first two lines of the second stanza. Powerful beyond a doubt, they yet convey a totally false impression. To quote from the "Question Box" (page 300) we find the question asked "If the Pope is the successor of Peter, why doesn't he imitate him in simplicity of life? Why ape the pomp and luxury of worldly...
...showing promise and some metrical skill. Here also is Mr. Pulsifer's Garrison Prize Poem, The Conquest of the Air, which would arrest the attention of any reader by the size of its conception and the telling choice of its words. It is awkward in part of the first stanza, but on the whole skilful verse as well as strong...
...poems none stand out except the one by C. P. A., the second stanza of which would be especially charming were it not for the "paradisal snow." Mr. Gray's "Utopia" is not an improvement on Shakspere. The stories are rather slight sketches than stories. "His Valley" by H. B. Wehle is not effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint...
...night-ride with a corpse which does not begin until the middle and stops long before the end. Otherwise it is up to the usual standard. The poem called "The Grain Elevators at Duluth" by H. B. Sheahan '09 is distinguished mainly by the inaptitude of the last stanza and the vision of wheatmills that both "loom" and are "outlined...
...verse is very much better. The first stanza of Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "The Game" is as good as any undergraduate verse one is likely to see in a long time, and the entire poem, though it does not keep up to this high level, is notable in its sincerity and vigor. Mr. Pulsifer's "The Riderless Horse" presents a striking idea with effective brevity, the difficult verse-form is fairly well handled, and the phrasing is at times admirable. The same writer's "Third Down," however, suffers from its close resemblance to four lines of Browning's "Meeting...