. American lands and letters. of Cape Auue. Whittier as a lad was tall, but uot over-stroug,with large eyes, deep set iu their orbits and full ofexpressiou. Those eyes uever ceased to challengeattention, and could of themselves question one ormake reply. His boyish experiences taught himof all farm labors ; he could milk the cows, or felltrees, or cradle grain. His school opportunitieswere small, but he grappled them with a rarepersistence. The strong Quaker strain of bloodin him brought with it a love for straightforward-ness, for plainness and simplicity of speech andconduct, which he never
. American lands and letters. of Cape Auue. Whittier as a lad was tall, but uot over-stroug,with large eyes, deep set iu their orbits and full ofexpressiou. Those eyes uever ceased to challengeattention, and could of themselves question one ormake reply. His boyish experiences taught himof all farm labors ; he could milk the cows, or felltrees, or cradle grain. His school opportunitieswere small, but he grappled them with a rarepersistence. The strong Quaker strain of bloodin him brought with it a love for straightforward-ness, for plainness and simplicity of speech andconduct, which he never outgrew : but — whatwas more rarely a product of Quakerism — therewas born in him an instinct for rhyme and poeticilluminations of thought, which broke out of him 3o8 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. as easily as the dapples of sun and shadow brokeupon the Powow Kiver. He was humane, too;Burnss field-mouse touched him as tenderly asthe Scotsmans rhythm ; all suffering things andall captives made quick appeal to him, and he. Whittiers House at Danvers, Mas^. wreaked their woes in lines that always carriedflavors of New England woods and waters. Some of these lines catch the attention ofGarrison, the arch agitator, only two or threeyears his senior, who goes to visit him among hiscows — and gives to him the earliest of those en- ]W> WEEKLY VOL. III. HARTFORD, CO\. MONDAY, JTJL\ 26. IflSO. ^-fD WE£KLT RETIEW • lib . .rroa; Learl to ..,lh the ?>;•;;»; ji.«-»m^I.^. ^ »b.,1 wo»ld—cirded «,th pride and -ropeiled lIANnEK Ai PHELPS, forward by He lound ibc ftorld . ^*^SELL. il diffuiion ofgritpelight whicbooit irrad-?Ilea -orld. and biercei tbe rtoooi ofIihedark places of tbe earth, tiM hablla- 0«,..» ,K, V,ff^£^^.„^.^»,..«.N* «inti!le*Mlur i^fc*!ht*huT* (*ih° ! p,n ,Z» »... ^.b*.V fer.,,,. 1 l>t>rd B,gt,t to, IMC j™) by. l«M of ctvelly T When Howard eieited J G WHITTIER. EoiTo« tbe
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