VERSE DIVERSIFIED #2

THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW The Omaha Publican gives the following historyof this peoduction, whichThe London Spectator has pronounced the finest poem ever written in America. During the early part of the war of 1861, one dark Saturday night in mid winter, there died in the the Commercial Hospital in Cinncinati, a young woman over whose head only twenty and two summers had past. She had once been possessed of an enviable share of beauty, and had been, as she herself said flattered and sought for the charms of her face., but alas!, she had fallen.Among her personal effects was found the manuscript " The Beautiful Snow, which was carried immediately to Enos B. Reed a gentleman of culture and literary taste. who was at that time, Editor of the National Union. In the columns of that paper on the day following the girl's death, the poem appeared in print for the first time.When the paper containing the poem came out on Sunday morning, the body of the victim had not yet received burial. The attention of Thomas Buchanan Reed, one of the first American poets, was so taken with the stirring pathos of the verse that he followed the body to its final resting place. Such are the facts concerning her whose, " Beautiful Snow" will long be remembered as one of the brightest gems in American literature,