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SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR 
(Died September 1, 1912, aged 37) 

Written for the London Daily Standard by ALFRED NOYES

I. 
Farewell! The soft mists of the sunset sky Slowly enfold his fading birch canoe! Farewell! His dark, his desolate forests cry 
Moved to their vast, their sorrowful, depths anew.

II. 
Fading! Nay, lifted through a heaven of light, 
His proud sails, brightening through that crimson flame,
Leaving us lonely on the shores of night, Home to Ponemah take his deathless fame.

III. 
Generous as a child, so wholly free 
From all base pride, that fools forgot his crown, 
He adored Beauty in pure ecstasy,
And waived the mere rewards of his renown.

IV. 
The spark that falls from Heaven not oft on earth
To human hearts this vital splendor gives;
His was the simple, true immortal birth!
Scholars compose; but this man's music lives! 

V. 
Greater than England, or than Earth discerned,
He never paltered with his art for gain; 
When many a vaulted crown to dust is turned,
This uncrowned king shall take his throne and reign.

VI. 
Nations unborn shall hear his forests moan; 
Ages unscanned shall hear his wind's lament,
Hear the strange grief that deepened through his own,
The vast cry of a buried continent.

VII. 
Through him, his race a moment lifted up 
Forests of hands to Beauty as in prayer, 
Touched through his lips the sacramental cup,
And then sank back, benumbed in our bleak air. 

VIII. 
Through him, through him, a lost world hailed the light!
The tragedy of that triumph none can tell, 
So great, so brief, so quickly snatched from sight;
And yet—O hail, great comrade, not farewell!

¶ The Negro lawyers of Oklahoma have formed a bar association, with forty members. 

¶ Dr. A. B. Terrell, a colored man, has been made assistant physician to the board of health of Fort Worth, Tex. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and of the Harvard Medical School, and has taken an active part in combating the epidemic of meningitis in Texas. 

¶ In Hutchinson, Kan., a jury composed entirely of colored men has been trying a case. Charles Fulton, deputy probate judge, remarked that he never saw a finer set of men on a jury than those six colored men, one of them a doctor, another a minister and a third a law student, and all of them men who have good education and character. It attracted a lot of attention, being a very unusual occurrence in Kansas legal circles.

¶ A company of contractors who are building automobile engines in New York are developing a new ignition system which is the invention of a colored man.

¶ In Perry, Ind., Higby Morgan, a colored boy, has taken the W. C. T. U. medal for the best composition.

¶ A man named Kelly, who is doing a turn called "The Virginia Judge" on the stage, so angered the colored people of Montreal by his use of the word "Nigger" that he had to have police escort home.


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