A RARE PICTOGRAPH 



may be made to those who may go out of 

 their way to prove that the last five lines 

 given were suggested to their authors by 

 similar ones by Omar Khayyam. As Cole- 

 ridge once wisely observed, "There are peo- 

 ple who cannot conceive of original springs, 

 great and small, but must charitably derive 

 every rill they behold flowing from a per- 

 foration in some other man's tank." 



Another class of critics there may be who 

 would attempt to trace in this unique master- 

 piece the influence of the Italian Renaissance 

 or the Rossetti school of poetry. But again, 

 one may waive the findings of all such 

 inconsequent big-wigs, and for once feel cer- 

 tain that this pictograph would have been 

 no different had there never been any such 

 thing as The Italian Renaissance or any 

 such man as Rossetti. This is a great com- 

 fort, when one remembers how many other 

 things have been made to feel the influence 

 of some renaissance or other. 



And now the question arises, has recogni- 

 tion come too late to warm with glory the 

 hearts of the composers of our pictograph, 



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