Joseph Hodges Choate 1915 xmas tree water and protocol drawn with the

and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

and shift beneath any keeper foolish enough to trust still ground

their faces fixed in the composed stillness of men already passed into doctrine

The Great Bartholdi Statue

Joseph Hodges Choate 1915 xmas tree water and protocol drawn with theJoseph Hodges Choate 1915. A late portrait of the great New York advocate and ambassador in the final year of his life, caught at the threshold of a war he had urged his countrymen to recognize the elder statesman's gravitas rendered as the republic itself was being forced into sober adulthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical