This reads so much like an urban legend, that I had to poke around a bit. It appears that it was a piece of fiction written by a Williston Fisk for Harper's Weekly in 1898, and has been given various backstories as time went on.
technothrasher
My favorite Iranian poet, via an Irishman…
XCIX
Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits--and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
This were the writing skills of a random dude who was stuck in an asylum. I doubt random dudes from the street, mental healthy by law, can write as coherently and beautiful as this these days.
LucifersCat
I found the piece quite lovely. Proof that clickbait titles existed long before the Internet.
cf100clunk
>"Most Beautiful Will Ever Made"
Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.
FpUser
here's a poem by ryokan expressing a similar sentiment
My legacy—What will it be?
Flowers in spring,
The cuckoo in summer,
And the crimson maples
Of autumn...
pasquinelli
>I, Charles Lounsberry, being of sound and disposing mind and memory...
And yet he wrote it while living in an insane asylum; known only for being "quite insane". The exact opposite of having a sound mind.
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technothrasher
chasil
LucifersCat
cf100clunk
Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.
FpUser
My legacy—What will it be?
Flowers in spring,
The cuckoo in summer,
And the crimson maples
Of autumn...
pasquinelli
And yet he wrote it while living in an insane asylum; known only for being "quite insane". The exact opposite of having a sound mind.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/disposing_mind_and_memory
1970-01-01