CHENEY, John Vance was born in Groveland, New York, December 29, 1848; [died, 1922]. Educated at Temple Hill Academy in Geneseo, New York. After a short period of teaching and of practicing law, he became the librarian of the Free Public Library of San Francisco and held this position from 1887 to 1894 when he accepted a similar one at the Newberry Library of Chicago, where he remained until 1899.

The Phoenix

BY feathers green, across Casbeen The pilgrims track the Phoenix flown, By gems he strew'd in waste and wood, And jewell'd plumes at random thrown.

I Am Small And Of No Reputation; Yet Do I Not Forget Thy Commandments

How small a thing am I, of no repute, Whirled in the rush of these eternal tides; Spun daily round upon this orb that rides

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February, bitter February, Month of hope withheld and promise vain, Drenching, under fickle smiles, the unwary Earth with devastating rain.

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