The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-07-16
Pau, HAMILTON Hayne.

earth to Heaven on July 7th in NIL its grandeur
aud nobleness. The Nesos and Courier thus
speaks of him:
Though the "poet of the South,' he was ever
the true loving son of Carolina and of Charles.
ton, and towards her were turned his longing
looks and thoughts as the end drew near. In
his closing article on "Ante-bellum "Charles-
ton," published in the Southern Bipouac, he
thus speaks of Charleston, the city of his birth
aud childhood:
~, her poet and her son, here in the shelter
ing arms of my beloved adopted mother, Geor-
ga, cannot but thrill at the thought of the
true mother that bore me!
''She may sometimes seem cold to her chill
dren yet hers is only the coldness of Hecla.
which carries beneath its surface heart of
deathless fame.
"Oh! Queen oh madre imperiaie, when the
sunset has faded, and tn o twilight gone, aud
the night descended, wilt thou not call the
wearied exile home
"He would fain sleep within the sound of
thy waters, under the shadow of thy immemo-
rial oaks, near the sacred dust of his fathers -
Can such an appeal fall upon deaf ears?
The Register speaks of him so eloquently and
gives such true narrative of his eventful life
that we cannot refrain from copying it.
The death of Paul Hayne will carry 10 many
q heart in all parts of the country sincere
pang of sorrow. For many years the deceased
hos lived the life Of n confirmed invalid, so
that his nelr and dear friends would have suf-
fered no surprise had he died long ere this.
Paul IIayne had the sensitive nature of q
true poet. His genius was of n tender yet
highly ardent character. The loving, tender,
him with the high strung patriotic citizen.
The deceased was born in Charleston January
1st, 1881, and hence died in his flfty-sixth
year. He was reared and educated in Charles
ton and tenderly nurtured as the darling Of
widowed mother, TO whom he was ever pecu-
liarly devoted. The poet bore the name Of his
maternal grandfather, Paul Hamilton, who
was Secretary of the Navy from 1909 to 1873
MIR. Hayne was also o near kinsman of the
great Carolina Senator, Robert Young lIayne.
or distinguished lineage OH every side, the
deceased was singuarly exempt from that un-
due pride of birth which was 80 common
characteristic Of the city of his birth. Few
men valued men at their true worth rs did this
child of song The truth is one Of his most
striking characteristics was his manly justice
to oil men of all degrees. Nor was this an un-
common trait 10 others Of his name, who were
noted for their square man liness and high
sense Of justice among men.
The deoea sed, though lawyer by profession
soon turned his attention TO literature and was
welded to the muses. almost from his cradle.
He was frequent contributor to the Southern
Literary Messenger at an carly age, and was
recognized from the first as o man of remark
able gifts for time the editor of the Charles
non Literdy Gazette, he was also connected
with the Charleston Eveniny Necs, and was
from its beginning the editor chief of Rus
SETS Magazine, one of Charleston's brightest
| and most admired Journals.
Mr.. Haync published q volume of poems in
Boston in 1854 another in New York in 1857
These volumas consist chiefly of brief poems,
sonnets aud lyrics, "The Temptation of Venus
| Monkish Legend being the longest third
volume "Avolio and other Poems,' was pub
| lisaed in 1859. In 1873 tho author published
fourth volume under the title, Legends and
Lyrics"
In the same year he edited the poems of
Henry Timrod.
The deceased poet, Mt the close of the war,
| removed TO Georgia. where he has resided ever
since. near 10 Augusta, in his pine land cottage,
which was gem in itself Of taste and comfort,
| for which IL was indebted, not only to tic pcet
master, but to tho fair hands or. its loving
mistress. The poet married early in life the
deughtar of the elder DR.. Michel, of Charleston, :,
and a sister of the highly distinguished DR..
Myddlcton Michel Of the same city
Well, the task of life is over now with Caro-
lina's most distinguished bard. lie has long
| ranked high at home and abroad as lyrical
poet Of the first water.
Though noble Georgia fondly adopted and
nonored him, Paul Haync is our own son by
birth, Lineage and temperament. No heart
| ever beat truer to South Carolina than his. and
he leaves in his gifted son one who will walk
in his fathers footsteps geutls, loving, brave,
just and generous nature
Bring us back now all that remains of Caro-
hnas child of song and bury him beneath the
palmetto and the magnolia. which shall mur-
muir their soft dirges over the grave of the
gifted one in the old home of his ancestors for
generation after generation,