St Nicholas [serial] . s unwearied industry,energy, and devotion to the work he loved. From the beginning, too, and throughout hiseditorial life, he was constantly writing published in all, at various intervals, six booksof poems, and each of them attained deservedpopularity and displayed a genuine, steadilygrowing gift of song. His poems, ranging ingreat variety from grave to gay, voiced in statelyodes, and in lyrics and sonnets of great beautythe sincere feelings of his heart for the grandeur,or mystery, or gladness of life. Perhaps hewas at his best in some clarion-call to Duty or
St Nicholas [serial] . s unwearied industry,energy, and devotion to the work he loved. From the beginning, too, and throughout hiseditorial life, he was constantly writing published in all, at various intervals, six booksof poems, and each of them attained deservedpopularity and displayed a genuine, steadilygrowing gift of song. His poems, ranging ingreat variety from grave to gay, voiced in statelyodes, and in lyrics and sonnets of great beautythe sincere feelings of his heart for the grandeur,or mystery, or gladness of life. Perhaps hewas at his best in some clarion-call to Duty ora ringing protest against some great Wrong,launched in a terse or fiery outburst. Few of his 262 IN MEMORY OF RICHARD WATSON GILDER friends realized how much he had written until hiscollected poems were brought out, complete, in neither editing nor writing could exhausthis zealous activities. He had an inborn sense ofthe sacred duties of a citizen, that made him everready to join or to lead in any movement for. RICHARD WATSON a photograph by Gessford. righting the wrongs of the oppressed or helpingthose who could not help themselves. His heartcried out against injustice, and he felt a bound-less pity for the hard lives — and especially for thechildren —of the poor. So, despite all the caresand exactions of his own busy days, he heartilyaccepted the post of first President of the NewYork Kindergarten Association, which did somuch to aid and cheer the little ones of NewYorks most crowded districts; and as Chairmanof the New York Tenement-House Commissionhe was the leader of those who planned andlaid the foundation of the laws that tore downscores of overcrowded, ill-ventilated tenements;opened small parks and recreation piers for thechildren; compelled the building of new schools;and made the dwellings of the poor safe againstfires. This was, indeed, an achievement worthy of all honor and gratitude, and yet it was onlyone of the many praiseworthy causes t
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