Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-25
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THE SAKE CENTENARY.
Gillian SAKE Holmes in Boston Tran
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| Gillian SAKE Holmes in Boston Tran
| script)
John Godfrey safxc, whose centen-
| airy occurs this month, was once a
well known and popular humorous
poet and lecturer. As early as May,
1858. William Cullen Bryant wrote
| the following criticism on "rhe Proud
| Miss Mcbride" This delightful poem
shows uncommon facility Of versifl-
| cation You will not find a single
sloyenly line in the whole book. no
| slipshod English, and no loose ends. .
| In the early '70s, when the Lyceum
| Lecture bureau was a fashionable en-
| tertainment of the time. Mr.. SAKE
drew equally along with Beecher
George william Curtis, and other or
ators of the time. He twice ran for
governor Of his own state on the DEM
| ocratict tlcket---a venture which, as
grandson Of his recently suggested.
might well have inspired him TO write
Of such experiences as humoronsis
as he did in his witty ballad, DThs
Briefess Barrister" Mr. SAKE prac-
ticed law and held the office Of state 8
attorney The following verses are
from the poem last mentioned:
Unfortunate man that | am
I've never a client but grief.
The case is I've no case at all,
And in brief I've ne'er had a brief.
I've waited and waited in vain,
Expecting an opening TO find
Where an honest young lawyer might
gain
Some reward for the toll of his
mind.
0 how can a modest young man
Fer hope for the smallest progress
sion?
The profession is always so fun
OF lawyers so full Of profession!
one incident In Mr.. Saxe's political
career is often without due credit.
When he ran for governor of YER
mont in 1860, he fully realized the
unpopuarlty Of his party and there
fore The slenderness of his own pros
poets in accepting the nominations IN
doing so he happily concluded with
the words. For my further political
views and opinions, ! Will refer YOU
to my inaugural message Another
saying OF this witty man that Boston,
ians have sometimes loved 10 quote
is. Man horn in Boston needs no sec
uud birth
lie was generally considered at his
best when mixing the sad with the
sunny the funny with the fine. In
consequence of having received serl-
GUS injuries in "A railroad accident a
few years before his death, followed
hs the loss Of Mrs. SaXe-his "dia-
mond edition OF a wife, ms he called
her-and several children who passed
away near together, TINS once merry
soul became finally a victim of mel
anehoia. As this change was APP
preaching he wrote "A few poems OF
a most serious character. Some Of
his relatives feel that these are of
his very best, though not as well
known. Among the latter is a SON
net IN memory Of his youngest daugh
ter. which was published in The Cen
tury. poem entitled IF Love and
Life Were one" and another som
net called somewhere. | quote the
second and part of the last.
Much have | mused if love and life
were one
How best were love! now beautiful
were lifel
Which now SO oft are alien or at
strife,
OF lamentation knowing wen its own.
Each needing each, yet evermore
apart
Here saddest of the twain, the yearn-
ing heart
And there the barren life, Ali thus
alone,
Existence empty Of its chief delight.
Creeps dun and shallow to the weary
close
And like some plant shut up in ray
less night
Love pales and pines that in the sum
mer sun
OF life, had flourished like the garden
rose
Would God that ever love ana life
were one.
The sonnet entitled Somewhere"
Is, IN part, as follows;
Somewhere somewhere happy
cline there Is,
a land that knows not unayalling
woes
Where all the clashing elements of
this
Disoordont scene are hused in deep
repose,
Somewhere somewhere an end OF
mortal strife
With our immortal yearnngs, never
more
The outer warning with the inner
life
Till both are wretehed. An that hap
by shore
Where shines for aye the souls re
fulgent SUM-
Aud life Is love, and love ana Joy are Z
one