Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. SIDNEY LANIER (_A Ballad of Trees and the Master_) March Twentieth Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last, When out of the woods He came. SIDNEY LANIER (_A Ballad of Trees and the Master_) March Twenty-First Those who dominated were intelligent, masterful, patriotic, loving home, kindred, state and country, dispensing a prodigal hospitality, limited only by the respectability and behavior of guests. Among girls, refinement, culture, modesty, purity and a becoming behavior were the characteristic traits; among boys, courtesy, courage, chivalry, respect to age, devotion to the weaker sex, scorning meanness, regarding dishonor and cowardice as ineffaceable stains. J. L. M. CURRY (_The Old South_) _General Joseph E. Johnston dies, 1891_ March Twenty-Second Father Tabb's discernment was clear and touched by the purest fragrance of the muses. To Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats he was devoted. Poe he regarded as without a peer in modern literature, and was his uncompromising, inflexible champion. HENRY E. SHEPHERD _John Banister Tabb born, 1845_ March Twenty-Third Come, Texas! send forth your brave Rangers, The heroes of battles untold-- Accustomed to trials and dangers, Come stand by your rights as of old; The deeds of your chivalrous daring Are writ on the Alamo's wall, A record which ruin is sparing-- Come forth to your country's loud call! V. E. W. VERNON _Texas ratifies the Confederate Constitution, 1861_ March Twenty-Fourth Adams, Giddings, and other Congressmen issued a public address, in March, 1843, declaring that the annexation of Texas would be "so injurious to the interests of the Northern States as not only inevitably to result in a dissolution of the Union, but fully to justify it." HENRY A. WHITE March Twenty-Fifth Nor had Calvert planted English institutions in Maryland simply as he found them. He went back to a better time for freedom of action, and looked forward to a better time for freedom of thought. While as yet there was no spot in Christendom where religious belief was free, and when even the Commons of England had openly declared against toleration, he founded a community wherein no man was to be molested for his faith. WILLIAM HAND BROWNE _Landing of the Maryland colonists, St. Clement's Island, 1634_