. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . studious search,And watch of Natures silent lessons, taughtThy hand to practice best the lenient artTo which thou gavest thy laborious , last, thy life. And, therefore, when the EarthReceived thee, tears were in unyielding eyesAnd on hard cheeks, and they who deemed thy skiUDelayed their death hour, shuddered and turned paleWhen thou wert gone. This faltering verse, which thouShalt not, as w
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . studious search,And watch of Natures silent lessons, taughtThy hand to practice best the lenient artTo which thou gavest thy laborious , last, thy life. And, therefore, when the EarthReceived thee, tears were in unyielding eyesAnd on hard cheeks, and they who deemed thy skiUDelayed their death hour, shuddered and turned paleWhen thou wert gone. This faltering verse, which thouShalt not, as wont, oerlook, is all I haveTo offer at thy grave—this—and the hopeTo copy thy example, and to leaveA name of which the wretched shall not thinkAs of an enemys, whom they forgiveAs all forgive the dead. In the poem To the Past, there isanother allusion of similar tenor. Fromthese it appears that the son tracesmuch of his taste for literature to theexample and encouragement of hisparent. His very childhood, indeed,was marked by great precocity. Atten, we are told, he was a contributorof verses to the neighboring Hamp-shire Gazette, at Northampton, andjudging from those which he published. /^ I cXzz^^x,^C--^££^-pi_y
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