. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . lse nor will,The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;Exult O shores, and ring O bells!But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead. Walt Whitman. ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARDCOMMEMORATION The ode from which the two strophes below arc selected is in somerespects the highest achievement thus far in American literature. JamesRussell Lowell, who had already made his name in letters by the Yankeehumor of the Biglow Papers,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . lse nor will,The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;Exult O shores, and ring O bells!But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead. Walt Whitman. ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARDCOMMEMORATION The ode from which the two strophes below arc selected is in somerespects the highest achievement thus far in American literature. JamesRussell Lowell, who had already made his name in letters by the Yankeehumor of the Biglow Papers, had since 1855 been Smith Professorof Modern Languages in Harvard University. It was very natural,therefore, that he should be selected to write the official ode for the com-memoration services held by Harvard College on July 21, 1865, for itssons who had fallen during the war. After his acceptance of the honorhe tried in vain to write the poem. Only two days before the celebrationhe told one of his friends that it was impossible, that he was dull as a [256].
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