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December 1898 Issue
December 1898 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Among the Birds of the Yosemite
    John Muir
  • The Wholesome Revival of Byron
    Paul Elmore More
  • The United States and the Control of the Tropics
    Benjamin Kidd
  • The Name of Old Glory--1898
    James Whitcomb Riley
  • European Experience With Tropical Colonies
    W. Alleyne Ireland
  • Our Government of Newly Acquired Territory
    Carl Evans Boyd
Poem

Quatrain

By John Albert Macy
December 1898 Issue
Saved Stories
WHY fear the night ? The sun may sink
And never rise again on me;
Yet some one that I love shall see
It blaze above the eastern brink.
John Albert Macy.