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September 1909 Issue
September 1909 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 Expectation of Immortality
  • Brotherhoods and Efficiency
    William J. Cunningham
  • Authority and Efficiency
    James O. Fagan
  • My True Love From Her Pillow Rose
    Hermann Hagedorn
  • On a Moraine
    Charles D. Stewart
  • Eye and Hand
    Ellen Duvall
Poem

My Portion

By John B. Tabb
September 1909 Issue
Saved Stories
I KNOW not what a day may bring;
For now ’t is Sorrow that I sing,
And now ’t is Joy.
In both a Father’s hand I see;
For one renews the Man in me,
And one the Boy.