. Home school of American literature: . HAT face which no man ever saw And from his memory banished quite,With eyes in which are Hamlets aweAnd Cardinal Richelieus subtle lightLooks from this frame. A masters handHas set the master-player the ftiir temple *that he plannedNot for himself. To us most dearThis image of him ! It was thusHe looked ; such pallor touched his cheek ; * The club-house in Gramercy Park, New York, was thenamed The Players. With that same grace he greeted us—Nay, tis the man, could it but speak !Sad words that shall be said some day—Far fall the day ! 0 cruel Time
. Home school of American literature: . HAT face which no man ever saw And from his memory banished quite,With eyes in which are Hamlets aweAnd Cardinal Richelieus subtle lightLooks from this frame. A masters handHas set the master-player the ftiir temple *that he plannedNot for himself. To us most dearThis image of him ! It was thusHe looked ; such pallor touched his cheek ; * The club-house in Gramercy Park, New York, was thenamed The Players. With that same grace he greeted us—Nay, tis the man, could it but speak !Sad words that shall be said some day—Far fall the day ! 0 cruel Time,Whose breath sweeps mortal things away,Spare long this image of his prime,That others standing in the placeWhere, save as ghosts, we come no know what sweet majestic faceThe gentle Prince of Players wore ! gift of Mr. Booth to the association founded by liim and. RICHARD WATSON POET, EDITOR AND REFOKMEK. MONG the current poets of America, few, perhaps, deserve morefavorable mention than the subject of this sketch. His poetry isnotable for its purity of sentiment and delicacy of expression. Thestory of his life also is one to stimulate the ambition of youth, who,in this cultured age, have not enjoyed the benefits of that collegetraining which has come to be regarded as one of the necessary pre-liminaries to literary aspiration. This perhaps is properly so, that the public maynot be too far imposed upon by incompetent writers. And while it makes the wayvery hard for him who attempts to scale the walls and force his passage into theworld of letters—having not this passport through the gateway—it is the moreindicative of the real genius that he should assay the task in an heroic effort;and, if he succeeds in surmounting them, the honor is all the greater, and the laurelwreath is placed with more genuine enthusiasm upon the victors brow by anapplauding public
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