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The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition
A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition
Described by
Stella G. S. Perry
With an Introduction by
A. Stirling Calder, N. A.
Acting Chief of Sculpture of the Exposition
Paul Elder and Company
Publishers - San Francisco
Copyright, 1915, by
Paul Elder & Company
San Francisco
The courtesy of the Cardinell-Vincent Company, official photographers of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, of granting permission to reproduce the selection of official photographs appearing in this volume, is gratefully acknowledged.
To the Memory of Karl Bitter
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love; then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.