Rose "Benet, The Gaieway" Posts, Methuen. "London. 20, ese. Verses reveal a delightful mind allied to a real gift of descriptive writing. The rhythm is lawless and the author's choice of words "so charmingly appropriate and yet so well in tune with the spirit of poesy that to read him is a real pleasure, The major poem on Harlem 1s. oxceedingly clever—it is more. than clever, it has caught the atmosphere In wafd and turn of the rhyme and metre, Here is a stanza:
And. want to sing: Tarlem, Oh. 1 went to sing Harlem wild ave Ju Nineteen Hundred Twenty Five; The Negro City, the dream-book town, Metropolis of black and brown:
Number-gambling round the clock, Bones and razors on every" block, Coonsenn rating, thirst nasuasin mpierouged and allsengal Drinkiny, daneing on til days Swarmini. to church oF cabaret, Wihiriwind gay with leopard power, Rolting 1 Holy Ghost shower, "long the Mansions tu the sky!
But special note should be made of the fantasy of the New Forest Ponies, It ends thus:
And 1 wish that st was duke and we were homing, Turning oft peslde the pond, Almost taunhing once again to hear them "snorting Tu the dusk dove beyond, Where they huddled thrusting cross the Wicket OF our cottage to report Fo the rabbits and the badgers tu the Whether we wore of their sort, Mr, Benét has full right to enter the select company of the Gateway Poets, ta
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