The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-03
TWOWARS:MEXICAN, CONFEDERATE
By Gen. Samuel G, French

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Of the poet Timrod. from the original
portrait in Gil, on Japan paper. and con-
Lains the poem read by Henry Austin at
the dedication of the Timrod Memorial
at Charleston; the poem written by Carl
in 1877, entitled AT Timro6s
Crave and an incident which took
place in 1865 between the poet and VIII
liam A. Courtenay. when the latter
promised the poet that If possible his
poems should be published In book form.
How we'll the promise was kept is known
10 all The Timrod Souvenir will be sent
to any address postpaid cn receipt of
80 cents. Address w L. Washburn, pub
Usher, Aiken. S. C.
Coronation Odes are appearing In
every direction-odes at the right of
us. odes at the left of US. odes
at the front of US. volley and thun-
aer-and about the only quality that they
have in common is the sonorons, high
pitched note of imperialism. The inspir-
auon OF world-empire is behind them all.
Yet even before Kipling's first jingling,
together of Kandahar and Cairo. Bonn
bay and Gibraltar, Quebec and Hong
Kong, Esquimalt and Jamaica, Cape Town
and Melbourne, a British poet had hailed
the world-empire destiny of England. We
reprint some typical stanzas from his
Ave ImperatriX'' and wonder how many
Of our readers will recognize the poem
and be able to name off-hand it's au-
thor, once a literary arbiter elegantiarum,
now an exile "unwept, unhonoured and
AVE 1MPERATRIX
Set in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen OF these restless field of tide,
England! what shall men say of thee,
Before whose feet the worlds divide ?
The earth, brittle globe Of glass,
Lies in the hollow Of thy hand,
And through its heart Of crystal pass,
Like shadows through a twilight
land,
The spears Of crimson-suited war.
The long. white-crested waves of
fight,
And all the deadly fires which are
The torches Of the lords OF Night
The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows SO
well.
With gaping, blackened Jaws are seen
To leap through hail Of screaming
shell.
The strong sea-lion Of Engla1d's wars
Hath left his sapphire cave Of sea.
To battle with the storm that mars
The star Of Englandsschivalry.
The hrazen-throatad clarion blows
Across the Pathan's reedy fen,
And the high sleeps of India. SHOWS
Shake to the tread OF armed men.
And many an Afghan chief. who lies
Beneath his cool pomegranate trees
Clutches his sword in fierce surmise
When on the mountain-side he sees
The fleet-footed AIarri scout, who
comes
To tell how he hath heard afar
The measured roll Of English drums
Beat at the gates OF Kandahar.
For southern wind and east wind meet,
Where grit and crowned by sword
and fire,
England with bare and bloody feet
Climbs the steep road of wide en-
pire.
Bliss Carman's Coronation ODE"
published by L. c. Page & Co, Bos-
ton, is a composition of twenty-eight
stanzas, beginning and ending:
I.
There are joy-bells over England,
there are flags on London town;
There is bunting on the channel where
the fleets go up and down;
There are boniires alight
In the pageant Of the night;
There are bands that blare for SPLEEN
dour, and guns that speak for
might;
For another King in England is COM
ing to the crown.