America : our national hymn . standing, givesthe situation some claim to be regarded as an American miniature Lake or rowing out upon it, and looking up the height, the scene is German orItalian in its bold „. » • and romantic hues in the stoneof the chapel, and itsarchitecture, embracinga heavy tower, give it,set upon the woodedhill, an air of age, andrecall the castle siteson Como, or one ofthose still inhabited re-ligious establishmentswhich rise upon thebanks of the Danube. Not very far fromthe water is the formerhome of Doctor Hackett, and following west the
America : our national hymn . standing, givesthe situation some claim to be regarded as an American miniature Lake or rowing out upon it, and looking up the height, the scene is German orItalian in its bold „. » • and romantic hues in the stoneof the chapel, and itsarchitecture, embracinga heavy tower, give it,set upon the woodedhill, an air of age, andrecall the castle siteson Como, or one ofthose still inhabited re-ligious establishmentswhich rise upon thebanks of the Danube. Not very far fromthe water is the formerhome of Doctor Hackett, and following west the road upon which it lies, towardsBrooklawn, the country seat of Governor Clafflin, the traveller first comes to the portalof the cemetery in which the scholar now reposes. Doctor Smith has chosen a finalresting-place here among the urns of this and other friends. None could wish forthem, or for himself, a fairer spot. It is a good place for the dawn of the immortalmorning on him who wrote, The morning light is HOME OF REV. DR. S. F. SMITH, NORTH SIDE. THE AUTHOR OF OUR NATIONAL HYMN. There is little, in meeting Doctor Smith, to remind one of such thoughts; but thefamous Harvard class of Twenty-nine has sung the words, My Country tis ofthee, a half-century, and Doctor Holmes is beginning to speak of his own failing may he and his classmates fail and fade from their activities ; distant yet bethe day when those who knew him of whom this paper has spoken, shall stand andmuse : — Here lies who hymned America; to sing or preach,Dantes suggestive words our questions tribute teach,Where was a better smith of the maternal speech? Doctor Smiths fame is abroad as well as at home. His hymns are in some ofthe church collections of the mother country. A resident of Glasgow recently saidto him in a complimentary letter, Among the people of Scotland, you are ashighly respected as our own Doctor Horatius Bonar ; and in our family circle, youare certainly by no me
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