1895 In Poetry
-- Lines 9-16, "Pikes Peak", the original name of Katharine Lee Bates' poem, first published on July 4 and which later was set to music and known as "America the Beautiful"
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“Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)