Excerpt from In Memory of Edmund Clarence Stedman: A Meeting Held at Carnegie Lyceum, New York, on the Afternoon of January 13, 1909 At an hour Of pause in the stress Of a tumultuous time and city we have come together to celebrate the life Of a poet and to keep his memory green. It was a year ago that Edmund Clar ence Stedman passed, in full strength, as he had Wished, beyond the veil. Though his song and service were for the nation and the English tongue, he was our poet in a close and peculiar sense. Though he sang Of New England and of the Carib sea, and Of that no-man's-land of the poet which is the land Of all men and of all times, he chanted ballads and lyrics Of our own town; he echoed its spirit, in the early and the later day; he put into forms Of poetic art its love Of heroes and love Of country - in war time and in times Of peace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.