with Lanier's name and the date, and the motto -- `Aspiro dum Exspiro';
upon the reverse appeared the closing lines of the Hymn of the Sun,
taken from the poet's `Hymns of the Marshes' -- and beneath,
a flute with ivy twined about it."*3* The exercises,
which were interspersed with music, were as follows:
addresses by President Gilman of the Hopkins and President Gates of Rutgers
(now of Amherst); selections from Lanier's poetry, read by
Miss Susan Hayes Ward, of Newark, N.J.; a paper on Lanier's
`Science of English Verse', by Professor A. H. Tolman, of Ripon College, Wis.
(now of the University of Chicago); poetic tributes by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull,
Miss Edith M. Thomas, and Messrs. James Cummings, Richard E. Burton,
and John B. Tabb; and letters from Messrs. Richard W. Gilder,
Edmund C. Stedman, and James Russell Lowell -- all of which may be found
in President Gilman's dainty `Memorial of Sidney Lanier'. Again,
a replica of the above-mentioned bust, the gift also of Mr. Charles Lanier,
was unveiled at the poet's birthplace, Macon, Ga., on October 17, 1890;
on which occasion tender tributes*4* were again poured forth
in prose and verse, by Messrs. W. B. Hill, Hugh V. Washington,
Charles Lanier, Clifford Lanier, Wm. Hand Browne, Charles G. D. Roberts,
John B. Tabb, H. S. Edwards, Wm. H. Hayne, Charles W. Hubner,
Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Dudley Warner, and Daniel C. Gilman.
But more significant than these demonstrations, perhaps,
is the steadily growing study devoted to Lanier's works.
Mr. Higginson*5* tells us, for instance, that, when he wrote his tribute
in 1887, Lanier's `Science of English Verse' had been put
upon the list of Harvard books to be kept only a fortnight,
and that, according to the librarian, it was out "literally all the time."
Moreover, it would not be difficult to cite various poems
that have been more or less modeled upon Lanier's; it is sufficient, perhaps,
to point out that the marsh, a theme almost unknown to poetry before Lanier