Word: trynin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...told, intended to be a "Poetry" number. It contains four poems and a piece of metre which essays to imitate a freight train crossing a bridge, and succeeds. Of the four poems the best is that by Herbert Bates '90, which serves as a heading to Mr. Trynin's story. Mr. Garland's verses "The Lee Shore" have spirit and simplicity, two excellent things. The other two contain such lines as "to take life naked at primeval hands," "that men have meant me nothing," "crossing the languorous lilts of water," and other phrases which are neither beautiful nor sensible...