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# Cornhuskers/Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs

POTATO BLOSSOM SONGS AND JIGS
    Rum tiddy um,
    tiddy um,
    tiddy um tum tum.
My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves.
I feel like tickling you under the chin—honey—and a-asking: Why Does a Chicken Cross the Road?
When the hens are a-laying eggs, and the roosters pluck-pluck-put-akut and you—honey—put new potatoes and gravy on the table, and there ain't too much rain or too little:
       Say, why do I feel so gabby ?
       Why do I want to holler all over the place?
    and I said all is yours
    the handfuls of nothing?
I bring a concertina after sunset under the apple trees.
The oats in the valley run a mile.
●●● Old foundations of rotten wood.
An old barn done-for and out of the wormholes ten-legged roaches shook up and scared by sunlight.
So a pickax digs a long tooth with a short memory.
Fire can not eat this rubbish till it has lain in the sun. ●●● The story lags.
The story has no connections.
The story is nothing but a lot of banjo plinka planka plunks.
●●● In Burlington long ago
And later again in Ashtabula
I said to myself:
    I wonder how far Ophelia went with Hamlet.
What else was there Shakespeare never told?
There must have been something.
If I go bugs I want to do it like Ophelia.
There was class to the way she went out of her head. ●●● Does a famous poet eat watermelon?
The Japanese bring slices of watermelon into pictures.
Summer mornings I smell new wood and the river wind along with peaches.
I listen to the steamboat whistle hong-honging, hong-honging across the town.
And once I saw a teameo straddling a street with a hay-rack load of melons. ●●● Niggers play banjos because they want to.
It is the same as why boys buy a nickel's worth of peanuts and eat them and then buy another nickel's worth.
Newsboys shooting craps in a back alley have a fugitive understanding of the scientific principle involved.
    away from a school-room geography lesson
    in April when the crawfishes come out
    and the young frogs are calling
    and the pussywillows and the cat-tails
    know something about geography themselves.
●●● I ask you for white blossoms.
I offer you memories and people.
I offer you a fire zigzag over the green and marching vines.
I bring a concertina after supper under the home-like apple trees.
I make up songs about things to look at:
    potato blossoms in summer night mist filling the garden with white spots;
    a cavalryman's yellow silk handkerchief stuck in a flannel pocket over the left side of the shirt, over the ventricles of blood, over the pumps of the heart.
# Cornhuskers/Prairie Waters by Night

PRAIRIE WATERS BY NIGHT
# Cornhuskers/Questionnaire

QUESTIONNAIRE
Have I sold ice to the poor in summer and coal to the poor in winter for the sake of daughters who nursed brindle bull terriers and led with a leash their dogs clothed in plaid wool jackets?
Have I given any man an earful too much of my talk—or asked any man to take a snootful of booze on my account?
Have I put wool in my own ears when men tried to tell me what was good for me? Have I been a bum listener?
Have I taken dollars from the living and the unborn while I made speeches on the retributions that shadow the heels of the dishonest?
# Cornhuskers/Prayers of Steel

PRAYERS OF STEEL
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.
Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.
# Cornhuskers/Palladiums

PALLADIUMS
                   with a speaking forefinger?
Who gumshoes amid the copy paper
                   with a whispering thumb?
# Cornhuskers/Portrait of a Motor Car

PORTRAIT OF A MOTOR CAR
The feet of it eat the dirt of a road...the wings of it eat the hills.
Danny the driver dreams of it when he sees women in red skirts and red sox in his sleep.
# Cornhuskers/Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight

PSALM OF THOSE WHO GO FORTH BEFORE DAYLIGHT
# Cornhuskers/Remembered Women

REMEMBERED WOMEN
For this memory of one mouth and a forehead they go on in the gray rain and the mud, they go on among the boots and guns.
The horizon ahead is a thousand fang flashes, it is a row of teeth that bite on the flanks of night, the horizon sings of a new kill and a big kill.
# Cornhuskers/Out of White Lips

OUT OF WHITE LIPS
# Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Marcellinus, Flavius

Marcellinus (7), Flavius, a tribune and afterwards a notary (Böcking, Not. Dig. Occ. p. 408), brother to Apringius, afterwards proconsul of Africa, where Marcellinus appears to have usually resided. He was a Christian of high character, taking much interest in theological matters. In 410 he was appointed by Honorius to preside over a commission of inquiry into the disputes between the Catholics and Donatists, an office for which he was singularly well qualified, and which on the whole he discharged (in 411) with great moderation, good temper, and impartiality, though not without giving offence to the Donatists, who accused him of bribery (Aug. Ep. 141; Cod. Theod. xvi. 11, 5). With Augustine an intimate friendship subsisted which the behaviour of Marcellinus at the conference no doubt tended to strengthen; several letters were exchanged between them, and Augustine addressed to him his three books de Peccatorum Meritis et Remissione, his book de Spiritu et Littera, and the first two books of his great work de Civitate Dei, which he says that he undertook at his suggestion (Aug. Retract. ii. 37; de Civ. Dei. i. praef. ii. 1). Excepting letters about the conference (Epp. 128, 129), the correspondence appears to have been carried on chiefly during 412. It arose mainly
out of the anxiety of Marcellinus for his friend Volusianus, who, notwithstanding the efforts of his mother to induce him to become a Christian, was swayed in a contrary direction by the worldly society in which he lived. In 413 occurred the revolt of Heraclian, suppressed by Marinus, count of Africa, who, bribed by the Donatists, as Orosius insinuates, arrested and imprisoned Marcellinus and Apringius. Several African bishops joined in a letter of intercession on behalf of the prisoners, whose prayer Caecilianus affected to support, and he even paid an express visit to Augustine, giving him the strongest hope that they would be released, with solemn asseverations of absence of hostility on his own part. But on the following day, Sept. 15 or 16, they were both put to death. Augustine mentions their edifying behaviour in prison. See Dr. Sparrow Simpson's S. Aug. and Afr. Ch. Divisions (1910), pp. 102–126.
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# Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Mar Aba or Mar-Abas

Mar Aba or Mar-Abas. [NESTORIAN CHURCH; THOMAS (8).]
# Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Marcellina, a sister of St. Ambrose

Marcellina (2), a sister of St. Ambrose, older than himself. His three books de Virginibus, addressed to her, were written by her request. From iii. 1 we learn that she was admitted as a consecrated virgin at Rome on Christmas Day, by pope Liberius, in the presence of a large concourse of virgins and others. The address then given by Liberius is recorded by Ambrose from what Marcellina had often repeated to him. Ambrose praises her devotion and advises her to relax the severity of her fasting. She is mentioned by him (Ep. v.) as a witness to the virginal purity of Indicia. A constant correspondence was kept up with her brother. She is his "domina soror vitae atque oculis praeferenda." He wrote three of his most important letters to her: Ep. xx. describes his conflict with Justina and her son the younger Valentinian; xxii. announces the discovery of the bodies of the martyrs Gervasius and Protasius; xli. reports a sermon in which he had reproved Theodosius. In his discourse on the death of his brother Satyrus, Ambrose speaks of the warm family affection which bound the three together, and of the sister's grief (de Excessu Satyri, §§ 33, 76.
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# Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Mammaea or Mamaea, Julia

Mammaea or Mamaea, Julia, the daughter of Julia Moesa, and niece of Julia Domna, the wife of the emperor Septimius Severus. She played for a short time a conspicuous part in Roman history, not without some interesting points of contact with the Christian church. By her marriage with the Syrian Gessius Marcianus she became the mother of Alexander Severus, and soon afterwards was a widow. With her mother and her sister Soaemias, the mother of ELAGABALUS, she went, at the command of Macrinus after the death of Caracalla, to reside at Emesa. On the election of her nephew Elagabalus as emperor, she went with him and her son Alexander, then 13 years old, to Rome, and it speaks well for her prudence and goodness that she continued to secure the life of her son from the jealous suspicions of the tyrant and to preserve him from the fathomless impurity which ran riot in the imperial court. There are sufficient reasons for assigning this watchfulness to at least the indirect influence of Christian life and teaching. Possibly, as in the time of Nero, there may have been disciples of the new faith among the slaves of Caesar's household, whom she learnt to respect and imitate. On the death of Elagabalus, a.d. 222, and the election of her son by the Praetorian Guard, she attained great influence. Her leanings to the Christian society were shewn more distinctly when she was with the emperor at Antioch, and hearing that Origen, already famous as a preacher, was at Caesarea, invited him to visit them with the honour of a military escort, welcomed him with all honour, and listened attentively as he unfolded the excellence of the faith of Christ (Eus. H. E. vi. 21). It does not appear that she ever made a definite profession of belief, and her religion, though it won from Eusebius (l.c.) the epithets of θεοσεβεστάτη and εὐλαβής, and from Jerome (de Script. Eccles. c. 54) that of religiosa, was probably of the syncretistic type then prevalent, which shewed itself, in its better form, in Alexander's adoption of Christian rules of action, and in his placing busts of Christ, Abraham, Orpheus, and Apollonius of Tyana in his private oratory (Lamprid Vit. Sev. c. 29, 43), and in its worst when Elagabalus wished to build a temple on the Capitol in which Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Romans were to unite in worshipping the Deity whose name he had adopted. Both mother and son, in consequence of these tendencies, came under the lash of Julian, who sneers at the childish unwisdom of the latter in submitting his own will to Mammaea's and gratifying her greed of gain (de Caesarr. p. 315), and represents him as weakly bemoaning his disaster. Mammaea shared her son's fate when the troops rose and murdered him in Gaul, and her last moments were embittered by her son's reproaches for the pride and avarice which had wrought their common ruin (Gibbon, cc. vi. and vii. and authorities cited above).
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# Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Marana and Cyra

Marana and Cyra, two ladies of birth and education of Beroea in Syria, who in their youth devoted themselves to a solitary life of the extremest austerity, which they had persevered in for 42 years when Theodoret wrote his Religiosa Historia. According to Theodoret they left home with some female servants whom they had inspired with the same ascetic fervour and built a small stone enclosure,
open to the sky, the door of which they closed up with mud and stones, their only means of communication with the outer world being a small window through which they took in food. Only females were allowed to converse with Marana, and that only at Easter; Cyra no one had ever heard speak. For their maidens a small hovel was constructed within earshot, so that they could encourage them by their example and by their words to a life of prayer and holy love. Theodoret often visited these recluses and in honour of his priestly office they unwalled their door and admitted him into the enclosure, which he found devoid of any protection against the heat or cold, rain or snow. Their heads and the whole upper part of their bodies were enveloped in long hoods, entirely concealing their faces, breasts, and hands. They wore chains of iron round their necks, waists, and wrists, of such weight as to prevent Cyra, who was of weak frame, from raising herself upright. These they laid aside at Theodoret's request, but resumed after he left. Their fastings equalled in length those of Moses and David. Fired with a desire to visit holy sites, they made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, not eating once on the journey nor as they returned, and only breaking their fast at Jerusalem. They practised the same rigid abstinence on a second pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thecla at the Isaurian Seleucia. Theod. Hist. Relig. c. 29; Basil. Menol. Feb. 28; Tillem. ii. 64; Ceill. x. 63.
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# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Crosthwaite, Sir Robert Joseph

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​CROSTHWAITE, SIR ROBERT JOSEPH (1841–)
I.C.S. : son of Rev. John C. Crosthwaite : born Jan. 17, 1841 : educated at Merchant Taylors and Brasenose College, Oxford : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1863 : served chiefly in the N.W.P. : was Judicial Commissioner of Burma and Central Provinces : Agent to the Governor-General in Central India and in Rajputana : called to the bar from the Middle Temple, 1868 : K.C.S.I. in 1897.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cunningham, Francis

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​CUNNINGHAM, FRANCIS (1820–1875)
Son of Allan Cunningham, and brother of Sir Alexander (q.v.) : born 1820 : educated at Addiscombe : joined the Madras Army, 1838 : was distinguished as an engineer in the defence of Jalalabad, 1842 : served in the Civil Commission in Mysore under Sir Mark Cubbon, and retired in 1861. He edited Marlowe, Massinger and Ben Jonson, by which he is best known : also wrote for the Saturday Review : he died Dec. 3, 1875.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cross, John Kynaston

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​CROSS, JOHN KYNASTON (1832–1887)
Son of Thomas Cross : head of the Firm of Crosses, Winkworth & Co. : Under Secretary of State for India, Jan., 1883 to June, 1885 : died March 20, 1887.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Crowe, Sir Joseph Archer

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​CROWE, SIR JOSEPH ARCHER (1825–1896)
Journalist, art-critic, and diplomatist : son of Eyre Evans Crowe : born Oct. 20, 1825 : artist of Illustrated London News in the Crimea : present at the engagements : appointed Superintendent of the "Sir Jamsetji Jijihbai's School of Design" at Bombay, 1857 : Editor, successively, of the Bombay Gazette and Bombay Standard, and correspondent of the Daily News and Times during the mutiny : Secretary of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce : left India owing to ill-health, 1859 : Times' correspondent in Italian war of 1859 : present at Solferino : appointed Consul- General for Saxony, 1860 : entered diplomatic service, 1880 : Commercial Attache for Europe, 1882–1 895 : joint author with Cavalcasella of Histories of Flemish and Italian Painters, Lives of Titian and Raphael : published a volume of Reminiscences : died Sep. 6, 1896.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cross, Richard Assheton, first Viscount

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​CROSS, RICHARD ASSHETON, FIRST VISCOUNT (1823–)
Born May 30, 1823 : son of William Cross : educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1849 : M.P. for Preston, 1857–62, and S. Lancashire, 1868–86 : Home Secretary, 1874–80 and 1885–6 : Secretary of State for India, Aug. 4, 1886, to Aug. 19, 1892 : Lord Privy Seal, 1895–1900 : made a Viscount, 1886 : P.C. : G.C.S.L, 1892 : D.C. L. : LL.D., Cambridge, 1878 : G.C.B. , 1880 : F.R.S. : author of legal works.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cubbon, Sir Mark

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​CUBBON, SIR MARK (1785–1861)
Born Sep. 8, 1785 : went to India in the Madras Infantry in 1800 : Captain in 1816 : in the Commissariat Department in the Pindari war, 1817–8, and in Madras. When the people of Mysore rebelled, in 1831, against the oppression and bad government of their Hindu Raja, Lt-Colonel Cubbon was a member of the Commission of Enquiry : after which the Government of India assumed the administration of the province and Cubbon was made Commissioner, first joint, and in 1834 sole, of Mysore : and soon afterwards of Coorg also : this post he held for 27 years, governing the province despotically but successfully, through native agency, and exercising a profuse hospitality : Lt-General, 1852 : C.B., 1856 : K.C.B., 1859. He never married or left India until he retired in 1861, after 60 years' service in India, when he died at Suez, on April 23. His equestrian statue is in the Cubbon Park at Bangalore : when unveiled, it had been daubed with the three Brahmanical marks on the forehead.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Csoma, De Köros, Alexander

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​CSOMA, DE KÖROS, ALEXANDER (1784–1842)
Traveller and student of philology : son of Andrew Csoma : born April 4, 1784, at Koros in Transylvania : educated, 1815–8, at the College of Novo Enyed : Doctor of Medicine at Gottingen. To ascertain the origin of his countrymen, the Hungarians, whose primitive seat he expected to discover in the heart of Central Asia, he left Bucharest, Jan. 1, 1820 : travelled to Constantinople, Alexandria, Syria, Bagdad, Teheran, Mashad, Bokhara, Kabul, Lahore, Kashmir, Leh : studied Tibetan thoroughly in monasteries in Ladak, chiefly at Yangla, in Zanskar, 1823–6 : was at Sabathu, 1824–5 : allowed Rs. 50 a month by the Government of India : made a third journey to Kanum in Kunawar, studying Tibetan at a Buddhist monastery till 1830 : reached Calcutta, April, 1831 : published a Tibetan grammar and dictionary, vocabulary, etc. : made Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1834 : studied Sanskrit, and was appointed Librarian of the Society : travelled, 1836–7, to study Oriental languages, to Jalpaiguri and Titalya : at Calcutta 1837–42 : started for Lhasa in 1842 : reached Darjeeling, March 24 : died April 11 : and was buried there : "an indefatigable and unpresuming student" a scholar of extreme modesty : knew 17 languages, ancient and modern.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cubitt, William George

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​CUBITT, WILLIAM GEORGE (1835–1903)
Colonel : son of Major W. Cubitt of the Bengal Army: educated at Laleham : joined the 13th Bengal N.I., 1853 : served in the Sonthal campaign, 1855 : in the Dafla expedition, 1874–5 : Afghan war, 1878–80 : Akha expedition, 1883–4 : Burmese expedition, 1886–7 : in the mutiny won the Victoria Cross at Chinhut on June 30, 1857, for saving the lives of three men at the risk of his own : in the defence of the Residency at Lucknow : ​wounded : D.S.O. for his services in Burma : retired 1892 : died Jan. 25, 1903.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cuningham, Sir William John

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​CUNINGHAM, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (1848–)
I.C.S. : born Nov. 20, 1848 : son of Alexander Cuningham : educated at Edinburgh Academy and privately : went out to Bombay, 1870 : served as Assistant to the Chief Commissioner of Mysore : Under Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 1885 : Secretary in the Foreign Department, 1894–1901 : C.S.I. , 1894 : K.C.S.I., 1897.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Crosthwaite, Sir Charles Hawkes Todd

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​CROSTHWAITE, SIR CHARLES HAWKES TODD (1836–)
I.C.S. : son of Rev. John Clarke Crosthwaite : born Dec. 25, 1835 : educated at Merchant Taylors' and St. John's College, Oxford : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1857 : served chiefly m the N.W.P. : Chief Commissioner of British Burma, 1883–4 : Chief Commissioner of Central Provinces, 1885–6 : Chief Commissioner of Burma, 1887–90 : Member of the Governor-General's Supreme Council, 1890–1, and in 1892 : Lieutenant-Governor of N.W.P. and Oudh, 1892–5 : Member of the Council of India, 1895–1905 : author of Notes on the N.W. Provinces of India, 1870 : K.C.S.I., in 1888.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Audibility Of Sound

Audibility Of Sound. M. Savart, speaking of the inferior limit of the number of vibrations per second which compose a sound just perceptible to the human ear, says he had before proved by experiments, that the limit was much further extended than he had generally supposed. For example, sounds are very distinctly heard which result from more than fifty thousand oscillations in a second. By means of a new apparatus, he can now show that sounds are distinctly perceptible, and even strong, when composed of no more than eight vibrations in a second.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aubert

Aubert, musician to the Duke of Bourbon, was engaged at the opera at Paris, as violinist, in 1727. He died in 1758. He composed some sonatas and other music.
AUBERT, son of the preceding was first violin at the opera at Paris till 1771, when he re-tired with a pension. Either he or one of his brothers wrote a refutation of the principles of J. J. Rousseau respecting French music.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Auberti

Auberti, a violoncellist at the Italian Theatre at Paris, published some music for that instrument. He died about the year 1805.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aubigny Von Engelbronner, Ni-na D'

Aubigny Von Engelbronner, Ni-na D', the youngest of two sisters, who were celebrated composers of songs in Germany. She went to the East Indies with an English family.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Audace

Audace. (I.) With boldness.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aubert, P. F. Olivier

Aubert, P. F. Olivier, (sometimes written O,) a violoncellist at the Comic Opera at Paris, was born at Amiens, in 1763. He has written an excellent instruction book for the violoncello, also much instrumental music.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aubin, Madame St

Aubin, Madame St., at one time a very celebrated singer of the Opera Comique, died in 1850, at Paris, at the advanced age of eighty-seven. She was performing during the worst period of the first revolution, and was in communication with Marat, Robespierre, and Collotd'Herbois. She exerted her influence with these men to save victims from the scaffold, although there was a certain risk in so doing ; and during all her life was remarkable for charity and kindness. She left the stage at the age of forty-two. The Empress Josephine appointed her one of her readers.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Audinot

Audinot. Author of the petit opera "Le Tonnelier," at Paris.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Auenbrugger, F

Auenbrugger, F., a female composer of vocal and instrumental music, died at Vienna in 1786. Her sister, Mary Anne, also published some music.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Audinot, Mlle

Audinot, Mlle. Singer at the Opera at Paris about the year 1782. Gretry composed the music of some particular parts for her, especially "Colinette d la Cour."