Old Mr. Solomon Reeder has a philosophic mind, Which is to reading newspapers most wondrously inclined. "They broaden one's intelligence," he says with conscious pride, "And bring us into sympathy with all the world outside; And make us feel the universal brotherhood of man, Which knits America to Greece and Chile and Japan." So every evening after tea he sends "the brats" to bed, That in philosophic silence the paper may be read; And lonely Mrs. Reeder, as she mutely knits, can see His every feature glowing with a widening sympathy; Until, at half-past ten o'clock, he lays the paper by, With universal brotherhood a-glimmering in his eye. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 1 by CONRAD AIKEN SPRINGTIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE OCTOROON by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO OUR MOCKING-BIRD; DIED OF A CAT, MAY, 1878 by SIDNEY LANIER |