I culture and literary tastes who was

at that tinw editor of the National

I nion In the columns of that pa H citizens National Bank

per on the morning following the held st their banking house

girl s death the poem appeared in —

print for the first time When the

paper containing the poem ca me out

on Sunday morning the bodv of the

victim had not yet received burial

The attention bf Thomas Buchanan

Re« d one of the first American poets

was soon directed to rite newly pub-

lished lines who was so taken with

their stirring pathos that he immed-

iately f dlow the corpse to it rest-

ing place

Su t h are the plain facts concern-

ing he r whose Beautiful Snow will

loitg be regarded as one of the bright-

est gems in American literature