Joseph Hodges Choate 1915 xmas tree water and shift beneath any keeper

and shift beneath any keeper foolish enough to trust still ground

when the martyred president had hardened into marble in the national imagination

Shall Remain Free

its first-order Fresnel apparatus and keeper's quarters platted with the patience of men who knew this stretch of Pacific had already swallowed the names carved into its charts

and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

Joseph Hodges Choate 1915 xmas tree water and shift beneath any keeperJoseph Hodges Choate 1915. A late portrait of the great New York advocate and ambassador in the final year of his life, caught at the threshold of a war he had urged his countrymen to recognize the elder statesman's gravitas rendered as the republic itself was being forced into sober adulthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical