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The Three Songs

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Day
30
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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A poet in the rosy prime And blitlie and dewy mora of time, Wheu song was natural as breath. Three songs sent forth to flght with death. And one he made to please the orowd: It pleased them, and nis pralse was loud ; It pleased them greatly for a day, And Uien its music died away. And one he made to please the few ; It lived a century or two ; 'Twas sung wlthln the halls of kings, ïhen vanished with forgotten things. And one he made to please himself, Without a t lought of fame or pelf, Bilt sent it forth with doubt and fears, And it outlasted all the years. No other song has vital breath Through endless Mme to flght with death Than that the siiiger sings apart To please his solitary heart. - Sam Waller Foss in the New York Sun. The return of Julián Hawthórne, the Special Commissioner sent out by The Cosmopolitan to investígate the famine and plague in India, confirma the worst fears. British officials in India vvere not anxious to have Mr. Ilawthorne risk his life by a close inspection of the horrors of plague and famine, but he is a typical American, and having undertaken to see the real conditions, was deterred by no dangers. Eight and a half inillions of people have already perished, and the reading of Mr. Hawthorne's description will open the eyes of the world to a condition of affairs tha is almost inconceivable in this year of jubilee.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier