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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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went like this: WHEN I AM GONE Oh, bury me deep neath the starlit sky, Oh, bury me deep and long,Where I can hear the whippoorwills twilight cry And list to the robins song.And drop no tear on my new-made mound, Nor moan oer my lifeless clay.Tis true that my body is underground, But my soul will be far away. Mabel said she never knew any onewho seemed so anxious to have her bodyand soul in different places, but I re-minded her that all poets were like that.It goes with the artistic temperament,and I said I had often felt it myself.Then Mabel giggled, and I didnt mind abit. She said she was giggling at thepoetry, and I laughed, too, and I cannottell you the strange relief I felt all of asudden. Sister Irmingarde says the ar-tistic temperament is mercurial, and Iguess she is right. My nature is verybuoyant except when Im writing stories.Then I most always feel sad and lifeseems terrible. Mabel Blossom says she SUNSET ALL THE GIRLS WOULD FOLLOW VERY QUIETLY 306 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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We came to Adeline Thurstons Room feels just the same, but Im sure I dontknow why she should. She doesnt writethe stories; but she says it is because sheis in them. Perhaps that does give her aclaim to the artistic temperament. But Im away ahead of my story again,which is one of my most serious literaryfaults. I will return to Maudie and thepoems she and I read by the river bank. Maudie thought all the poems werebeautiful. Of course, she said, they werenot as good as Keats—she raves overKeats—nor as good as one or two thingsBrowning did —■ Blue ran the flashacross, violets were born, for instance.She is always quoting that. But shesaid Adeline Thurston was young, and ifshe lived a few years more would givesome great songs to the world. She saidit just that way. And she said theyshowed that Adeline was a deep studentof life, like us, and probed humanitysheart to its core. She took that abouthumanitys heart from a lecture we hadlast month. She said Adeline had saidshe might brin

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