HER ONLY POEM. It Was Short, but Made a Very Decided Hit.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 6

HER ONLY POEM. It Was Short, but Made a Very Decided Hit.

< A VEttY bright girl, fcho daughter of a Con- | gressman and well-known in Washington society during the past winter, is a great reader of poetry. ' I love poetry, 5 she said the other day, • and would give anything jf I could write it.' ■ ' Did you ever try ?' asked her companion. ' Never but once,' she said, hesitatingly and with a poetic blush ; * never but once, and that ended my muse's career for ever. I was in school then, and the teacher insisted upon every girl in the rhetoric class writing a poem for next recitation day. I couldn't do it, and avowed I wouldn't, but she insisted, and finally I just had to.' ' ' What was fc 1 * c poem ?' inquired her friend, cautiously. Bub the caution was 01 no avail, and she refused to divulge for some time, but at last she crave up. • vyelli if I must I must, I suppose, so here it goes : 4 '• Now fancy my delight Fox- 1 am asked to write A poem for tho rhetoric class to-day. My only hesitation To do tnis for recitation Is that I haven't thought of one darned word to say.' • Wasn tit awful ? she continued ; ' bu*j the worst of it was the teacher made me re. cite it before the whole school, But it brought down the house. And a very satisfied expression foil over her face.