ERE yet the warning chimes of midnight sound,
Set back the flaming index of the year,
Track the swift-shifting seasons in their round
Through fivescore circles of the swinging sphere!
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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, on SEPTEMBER 14,1869
of the birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt – geographer, naturalist and explorer – [Humboldt was born on September 14th,1769, and died in 1859]
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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, on SEPTEMBER 14,1869 of the birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt – geographer, naturalist and explorer – [Humboldt was born on September 14th,1769, and died in 1859]