Ebook Branches That Run, Over the Wall

Dear Sister:

It is wonderful how well the Book of Mormon narrative fits into blank verse. It must have cost you much labor, however, in writing "Branches That Run Over the Wall," to make your lines flow so smoothly and rhythmically, and I congratulate you on the accomplishment of this.

I like your device of prefixing letters to show which lines are historical, which imaginary, and which contain comments on the text. This will prevent misleading the reader, and yet allow you lattitude enough to weave into the woof of the poem some iris colored threads of idyllic romance. I was amused at the pretty conceit of naming the wives by transposing the letters of the names of their husbands.

I have enjoyed reading your composition, and believe thousands will do the same. I sincerely wish it every success.