January TO TIME, THE OLD TRAVELER They slander thee, Old Traveler, Is to scatter ruin, far and wide, But in thy flight, thou changest it "T is true thy progress layeth And for the brave and beautiful Thou hast caused our tears to flow; Nor thou, nor we can stay; WILLIAM HENRY TIMROD January First Some thunder on the heights of song, their race Godlike in power, while others at their feet Are breathing measures scarce less strong and sweet Than those that peal from out that loftiest place; Meantime, just midway on the mount, his face O'er those who lost and those who won, JAMES RYDER RANDALL Paul Hamilton Hayne born, 1830 James Ryder Randall, Laureate of the War between the States, born, 1839 January Second In a word, Mars and Minerva both in him concurred Into his foes; while they confess withal It was their guilt styled him a criminal. . . . From Epitaph by “His Man" In this epitaph we have what is in all probability the single poem in any true sense-the single product of sustained poetic art—that was written in America for a hundred and fifty years after the settlement of Jamestown. WILLIAM P. TRENT Nathaniel Bacon, "The First American Rebel," born, 1647 January Tbird The only calendar That marks my seasons, Of winter seasons. Alfred Mordecai born, 1804 MADISON CAWEIN January Fourth The strange and curious race madness of the American Republic will be a study for centuries to come. That madness took a child-race out of a warm cradle, threw it into the ocean of politics-the stormiest and most treacherous we have known—and bade it swim for its own and the life of the nation! MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY The Social Equality Bill passed in Louisiana, 1869 January Fifth What the cloud doeth The cloud knoweth not Knoweth the artist not? SIDNEY LANIER |