CHAPTER II

_The Year of a Hundred Years_

OUR FIRST CENTURY, George Edward Woodberry 572 CENTENNIAL HYMN, John Greenleaf Whittier 573 THE CENTENNIAL MEDITATION OF COLUMBIA, Sidney Lanier 573 CENTENNIAL HYMN, William Cullen Bryant 574 WELCOME TO THE NATIONS, Oliver Wendell Holmes 574 THE NATIONAL ODE, Bayard Taylor 575 OUR NATIONAL BANNER, Dexter Smith 578 AFTER THE CENTENNIAL, Christopher Pearse Cranch 578

##