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October 1901 Issue
October 1901 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.
  • The Undoing of Reconstruction
    William A. Dunning
  • Reconstruction and Disfranchisement
  • Yale's Fourth Jubilee
    Bernadotte Perrin
  • Lighthouse Village Sketches
    Louise Lyndon Sibley
  • The Piracy of Public Franchises
    R. R. Bowker
  • Carnival in the North
    Francis Sterne Palmer

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Poem

Quatrain

By Grace Richardson
October 1901 Issue
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WHAT compass binds the milkweed skiff ?
What rudder guides its helm ?
What wheel the thistle-head obeys,
Across the air-king’s realm ?
Grace Richardson.