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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Abram Joseph Ryan

Born: February 5, 1839
Died: April 22, 1886 (aged 47)
Bio: The Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, an active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Catholic priest. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the South" and, less frequently, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy."
Known for:
- Poems: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous (1880)
- Father Ryan's Poems (1879)
- Poems: Patriotic, Religious
- CROWN FOR OUR QUEEN (1882)