The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 337
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The Sage of Cedar Bayou
We bow not down with burdens on us laid,
But lift them up, for whom the load was made;
For upright we must be, and stand erect;
The almoners of God to His elect.
It is not ours to judge who makes demands,
Ours but to see the piteous, outstretched hands;
For unto us the cotters be as kings -
And all in need of what the harvest brings;
So be that what it will, we must be just,
For it is only given us in trust;
We will not question whose the cry or call,
But be God's almoners to one and all.12
"The task of poets is to spiritualize America; Sjolander has
done it for Texas," someone wrote long ago. "Thoughts and the
soul are real, Sjolander told the writer, "affected by neither
time nor space. Thoughts reach instantly to the uttermost con-
fines of the universe, and are not bound by material things
nor anything capable of physical measurement."
The mind is master. At its snapping whip
From heart and hand the fastening fetters slip.
. . . It shoots an arrow o'er the sea deep-ridged
And where it flies there is the wide gulf bridged;
It speeds a thought across a continent,
Behold! a highway gleams the way it went.
The mind is master. In its alchemy
The earth turns gold, a prize of pearls the sea.13
Long after he ceased publishing except at rare intervals, his
legions of admirers kept friendship's flame alight by correspond-
ence. His dimming eyes made it difficult to keep up his end, and
once, on taking up his pen to answer letters in the brightness
of a summer sun, clouds blotted out the light with a pall of
gloom, and the pen was laid aside. But the mind, "The Master,"
turned the physical frustration to account in a whimsical
couplet, "April Cloth."
Behold the thing that Mother Nature built
To wrap young April in --a crazy quilt.
At eighty-two he dedicated "Earth Magic" to Farm and Ranch
on its fiftieth anniversary and at eighty-five wrote another in-
spiring theme for the farm boys and girls of the 4-H clubs.
"What to him is autumn's hue, who lived and loved a summer
through ?"
12"The Plowman to his Brethren," ibid., 9.
13"The Master," ibid., 52.337
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/377/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.