The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-20
JOAQUIN MILLER
Gets Up a Calendar and
Writes Poetry.
Gems in Verse by the Long Haired
Poet of the Sierras. g.

The Londoners watch each year for
Phil Mays Calendar, because it has
numberless comic illustrations in pen
and ink by this well known cartoonist.
Encouraged by Mays success Jimmy
Swinnerton, the artist in bears of the
Examiner, this year infiicts one of his
own on a confiding public. Joaquin
Miller, 1.-THE poet of the Sierras," can
not paint, so he makes word pictures
in rhyme for a very pretty calendar
for 1897 A few have been received
here by Mr. Miller's friends, and they
are priced highly.
1t is a beautiful souvenir, arranged
under the direction of the poet by Mr.
Harr Wagner, San Francisco. The
calendar is gotten up like Christmas
card, containing four leaves, repre-
senting the four seasons of the year,
and is enclosed in a box. The leaves
are bound together with silk cord.
On the front leaf is picture of Mr..
Miller. To the left and below are the
days of January and February, and at
the bottom the following lines by the
poet, entitled, There is Only One To-
day."
Come listen, o love, to the voice of
the dove!
Come, hearken and hear him say:
There are many Tomorrows, my love,
my love,
There is only one today
And all day long you can hear him
say,
This day in purple is rolled;
And the baby stars of the milky-way,
They are Graded in cradles of gold.
Now, what is the secret serene, gray
dove
Of singing so sweetly alwayS?-
There are many Tomorrows, my love,
my love,
There is only one Today"
On the second page of the calendar,
are the months of spring-March,
April and May. Around the calendars
peoples are entwined, and below is
the following sentiment from the poets
pen:
Behold, The Holy Grail is found,
Found in each poppy's cup of gold;
And God walks with us as of old.
Behold The FURNISH bush still burns
For man, whichever way he turns,
And all Gods earth is holy ground"
On the third page, where are The
summer months, is view Of tall pine
trees and palms, the sea and the rising
sun, and the following musical accom-
paniment from the poet:
Come to my Sunland; come with me
To the land l love: Where the sun
and sea
Are wed forever: Where pine and
palm
Are filled with singers: Where the
tree and vine
Are voiced with prophets: o come
and you
Shall sing a song with seas that
swirl
And kiss their hands to the cold white
To the maiden moon in her mantle of
blue"
Turning the calendar again, and all
that suggests the advent of winter in
Northern chimes appears. On the left
are tall mountain peaks, capped with
snow; below, a winter scene on coun-
try road in the right-hand corner is a
house, far up on the mountain heights,
with everything about it suggestive Of
the season. Here and there over the
page are arranged the months of Sep
tember, October, November and De-
cmber Above mountain scene at the
top are the words: Lone as God
white as winter moon" Beneath the
scene of the house on the heights ap-
pears this verse:
And, oh. the voices 1 have heard!
Such visions where the morning
grows!-
A brothers soul in some sweet bird,
A sisters spirit in rose"
Altogether, the calendar is one of !
he prettiest seen this year. Mr.. Miller !
has sent copies to several Honolulu |
friends