Poets Of Today

Poets of Today.

  "And so you are a poet?" smiled the young lady as they sat beneath the dappled shade of the oak tree by the lane and watched the horse flies and other insects that were not charged extra on the bill.   

   "I try to be," was the rather modest rejoinder of the young man.

  "Ah," she suggested, "what we need now is more poets like good old Omar the tentmaker."

  "Very true," assented the young man "but the circuses have been consolidated to such an extent that no more than one poet could make a living by providing them with tents."

   Truly the path of literature is a rocky road today.

   --Judge