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April 1912 Issue
April 1912 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.
  • Youth
    Randolph S. Bourne
  • Trade-Unions and Public Policy: Democracy or Dynamite?
    Henry Raymond Mussey
  • John Burroughs: (Born April 3, 1837)
    Jean Dwight Franklin
  • The Significance of the Arbitration Treaties
    Roland G. Usher
  • The German Woman
    Hugo Münsterberg
  • White Horse Winter
    Wilbur Daniel Steele
Poem

John Burroughs: (Born April 3, 1837)

By Jean Dwight Franklin
April 1912 Issue
Saved Stories
AWAY with clocks and sun-dials! Time and I
Have made a compact — this to be my boon —
To hear the evening thrush, and know the hour, Yet feel it noon.