Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-12

| breath of the sweet-scented flowers of | love, friendship and ccnstancy, unan-
 moved by the hibernian furies that rage
 without, and unchilled by the winter | winds of poverty and ill-success. ''Then the spell of his hypnotized | dream is removed, and he is reminded | that he is in real world of follies and | inconsistencies. Then, to get the reader 1 in jubilant spirits, he is taken to hear Uncle Nose preach who introduces him
 self thus:
 My belubbed cullud brudders, Havin' lef' at home my specks, I'll have ter aX yer pardn', 1 Fer not readin' of my tex; But yerll find de inspiration Of what has ter say.
 In de 'pestle of de 'postle
 To de church in Africa"
 'tDr. Dozier is a poet born, and this is
 distinction in a day when most of our
 metrical literature is the production of
 poets who are made. His poems mean something and say something. "The physician-poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes has lately died; but in Birming- ham, the Magic City of our southland, | another physician-poet has arisen.' Still nearer home than Atlanta we find
 true appreciation, as the following from | the Rome (Ga.) Tribune indicates: 'Dr. o. T. Dozier, formerly a popular Roman and now a leading citizen of Birmingham, is in the city on a visit and is gladly welcomed by his many friends Dr. Dozier will read poem at the meeting of the Confederate Veter- ans at Houston, Tex. The Tribune has been permitted to see a copy of it and finds it beautiful and patriotic poem,
 one of the best of the doctors many ex- cellent productions. He is not only leading physician and surgeon, but is talented writer"
 The foregoing is supplemented by the testimony of the Anniston Hot Blast, as follows:
 "Dr o. T. Dozier. an eminent medical specialist of Birmingham, is in the city
 en route home from Rome. Dr. Dozier
 is not only physician of prominence, but is also poet of extraordinary abil- ity, being the authon.of Pebbles of Fan cy and Rhymes of the Times, one of the most valuable books of poems written in recent years. He has written a poem,
 "A Galaxy of Southern Heroes,. to be read at the Confederate reunion in Hous-
 ton. that is one of the best and most stir ring poems of southern sentiment and history ever written"
 This volume of praise will be swelled when all the Confederate Veterans who assemble at the reunion in Houston
 meet pr. Dozier and read his poetic works. It was happy thought of Dr.
 Dozier to have souvenir edition of his
 poems published for the reunion This
 edition was published in Birmingham
 and is fresh from the press. It is cer-
 tainly very beautiful and very appropri-
 ate. A Confederate flag in colors adorns
 the cover, and the volume is dedicated
 ito the men whose four years record of
 courageous warfare in defense of that
 freedom, enunciated in the declaration
 of independence and vouchsafed by the
 constitution, and in defense of the eter-
 nal principles if Caucasian regnancy in
 land purchased with the blood of our
 forefathers; to the men most valiant in deed, most brilliant in exploit, most lib- eral in sacrifice, most unyielding and un-
 compromising in their fidelity to their cause to the ex-soldier of the Confed- eracy-this volume is dedicated with all the love and fidelity of the author"
 This dedication rings with the spirit of the warrior. and this same spirit inspires Dr. Doziers master poem, "A Galaxy of Southern Heros" The light of battle falls full upon these ringing verses-no man could have written them without