Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1916 — Lanier’s Grave Marked. [ARTICLE]

Lanier’s Grave Marked.

After th.irty.flve years a stone has at last been raised over the grave of Sidney Lanier in Greenmount cemetery, in Baltimore. Since his burial there in 1881 the grave has been unmarked. The tablet set into the bowlder, of Georgia granite which now marks the grave bears these words of Lanier’s: “I am lit by the sun.” They are characteristic of the poet and they suggest the appeal which Lanier’s work will yet make to the American people; for though he died in poverty and obscurity the power of Jhis almost perfect song, warmed as it is ,by the sun and breathed through by the wind, has been gaining ever since, until today ho is one of the accepted poets, rather more than “minor,” of our literature and life. The long neglect of his name and his grave in Baltimore brings out the other strange fact, says the Boston Transcript, that Baltimore, though called the “Monumental City,” has no monument to Poe, though in Baltimore he was reaped, and though there he is buried. Neither has Boston, where ha was born, a statue of him. Our American poets are in poor credit with our statue raisers.