Genealogy of the Corser family in America : embracing many of the descendants of the early settlers of the name in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with some reminiscences of their trans-Atlantic cousins . Eric^, b. July 18, 14 (10). Franci? Richak;^ Saxofokd^ (Geor:.C -•f--^ Tohn^, 21, i860; m. K:;;nK^ U--; > Bourton- on-the-Water, reb. :; roer—8* ^^a •<ttiiq4-^ ^nrio[ — .osit) — .oaO — ?nrio[ — ^2 sgioaO*-8Ti: fans a-ai-S a^SBl 3I3W — ^bioinB8-^§id3i) f)i^Wl53 — »bioinjs8sgiosD — fnrio[.nog oJ Tt^^^LjPQli .8?p^^^02 [Dante was lost in a dark wood, whence Virgil, coming
Genealogy of the Corser family in America : embracing many of the descendants of the early settlers of the name in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with some reminiscences of their trans-Atlantic cousins . Eric^, b. July 18, 14 (10). Franci? Richak;^ Saxofokd^ (Geor:.C -•f--^ Tohn^, 21, i860; m. K:;;nK^ U--; > Bourton- on-the-Water, reb. :; roer—8* ^^a •<ttiiq4-^ ^nrio[ — .osit) — .oaO — ?nrio[ — ^2 sgioaO*-8Ti: fans a-ai-S a^SBl 3I3W — ^bioinB8-^§id3i) f)i^Wl53 — »bioinjs8sgiosD — fnrio[.nog oJ Tt^^^LjPQli .8?p^^^02 [Dante was lost in a dark wood, whence Virgil, coming to his rescue,becomes his guide through the eternal realm of woe and suffering, cori-sigiiiug him finally to the care of Beatrice, who will conduct himthrough Paradise.] Lifes mazy pathway threading, all unmindful,T found myself amidst a gloomy wood,Since from the beaten track my feet had ah ! it were a grievous task to tell How wild, and thick, and tangled was that wood, 1 i- •) Of which the memoi-y een my fear.—^ ? (.MJevous, death could scarcely be more bitter;i); f 0 relate the good which there I found,Of other things I saw there I will SUPPLEMENTARY. 275 I know not how I came to enter there. * *But when I reached the foot of a high hill, (13) Where ended all abrupt that gloomy valley, * *T looked aloft and saw its smiling topNow wreathed with that bright orbs returning rays,Which guides aright the steps of other men. ***** *»*Whilst thus I wandered in the gloomy depth, (61) Sudden before my eyes a form appeared, Of one who seemed by lengthened silence hoarse. When him in the great desert I beheld, Have pity on me, thus to him I cried, Whateer thou art, or shade, or surely man. He answer made : Not man — man once I was. My parents natives were of Lombardy, And both were born in lovely Mantua. My birth was under Julius, altho late, (70) And Rome my home in good Augustus reign. * * A bard I was, and of that pious son O
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