EIGHT   EVENTS:   Dec 8, Chester: Senior editor of Slope Editions and poet Christopher Janke and award-winning author Perry Glasser, author of Dangerous Places, will read from their work. At 6 p.m., Powers 29, Chester College (Click here).         BIRTHDAYS:   December 8th   Click here   Qintus Horatius Flaccus (0065 – Click here/0008 BC)  Italian writer   Click here   Charles Wentworth Dilke, editor of the Athenaeum,1789   Click here   Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (Click here - 1905)   Click here   Henry Timrod (1828) U S poet   Click here   Click here       VIII    "At Last, Beloved Nature! I Have Met"        At last, beloved Nature! I have met        Thee face to face upon thy breezy hills,        And boldly, where thy inmost bowers are set,        Gazed on thee naked in thy mountain rills.        When first I felt thy breath upon my brow,        Tears of strange ecstasy gushed out like rain,        And with a longing, passionate as vain,        I strove to clasp thee.  But, I know not how,        Always before me didst thou seem to glide;        And often from one sunny mountain-side,        Upon the next bright peak I saw thee kneel,        And heard thy voice upon the billowy blast;        But, climbing, only reached that shrine to feel        The shadow of a Presence which had passed.           Click here       Click here  1832-1910 Norwegian writer, editor, and theatre director ,Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903.  Click here       Aristide Maillol, Click here -  France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)   Click here   J CClick hereJohn Cowper, Powys 1872-1963  writer  Click here   Padraic Colum (1881 – 11 January 1972) Click here Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here and Click here   Click here   Click here Click here  (1894 – Click here/1961)  US writer      Click here   Click here   Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (1911 - 1992)   Click here   Click here   Delmore Schwartz (1913 – Click here/1966)  US writer   Click here   Jim James Douglas Click here 1943-71 American rock singer and rock lyric   Click here   Click here 1936-  Chinese novelist and poet   Click here   Click here   Click here  (1723 – Click here/1789)  German philosopher   Click here   Click here  (1865 – Click here/1957)  Finnish composer   Click here                                   Click here   Click here  (1868 – Click here/1952)  Austrian writer   Click here     Click here   Click here  (1886 – Click here/1957)  Mexican artist   Click here   Click here   Click here  (1889 – Click here/1949)  US writer Click here      Click here   Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (Click here - 1982)   Click here   Richard Lloyd Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Llewellyn, Click here -1983 Wales, novelist   Click here   John Morressy, 1930 - US, sci-fi author   Click here       Mary Gordon, Click here -  US, author Click here   Bill Bryson, Click here - American author  Click here           PASSED   Luis de Carabajal, Click here   1st Jewish author in America,   Click here   Richard Baxter, Nonconformist divine, 1691,  Click here   Scaramouche, celebrated zany, 1694,  Click here   Click here  (Click here/1785 –1859) English writer     Click here   Click here   Sir John Davies, English poet  1569-Click here   Click here                                   WHAT THE SOULE IS.   The soule is a substance, and a spirit is,    Which God Himselfe doth in the body make ;    Which makes the Man : for euery man from this,    The nature of a Man, and name doth take. And though thisClick here spirit be to the body knit,    As an apt meane her powers to exercise ;    Which are life, motion, sense, and will, and wit,    Yet she suruiues, although the body dies. 1   'The' in Ist edn.   G.       Click here   Click here  (Click here/1767 –1830)  French writer   Click here Click here  (Click here/1940 –1980) English singer, songwriter   Click here             Marin Sorescu, February 29, 1936 - 1996) was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist                           The Way Marin Sorescu   Thoughtful, hands behind my back,   I walk between the rails   the straightest way   there is.       From behind me   at great speed   comes a train   that knows nothing of me.       This train   (old Zeno is my witness)   will never reach me   for I am always a little ahead   of things that don’t think.       And even if brutally   it runs me over   there will always be someone   to walk ahead of it,   his head full of things,   hands behind his back.       Someone like me,   now,   while the black monster   approaches horribly fast   and will never      catch up with me.       Click here       SITES:       Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here   Click here       HISTORY:       1863 - Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South   Click here   Click here       1863 - Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic   Click here   Click here       1863 - Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters   Click here   Click here       Click here - Disappearance of Agatha Christie   Click here                               BONUS POEM: LAST HOURS       A gray day and quiet,   With slow clouds of gray,   And in dull air a cloud that falls, falls   All day.   The naked and stiff branches   Of oak, elm, thorn,   In the cold light are like men aged and   Forlorn.   Only a gray sky,   Grass, trees, grass again,   And all the air a cloud that drips, drips,   All day.   Lovely the lonely   Bare trees and green grass—   Lovelier now the last hours of slow winter   Slowly pass.               from POEMS NEW AND OLD by By John Freeman       Click here