. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE LONGFELLOW BUST IN THE POETS CORNER, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Vol. XXXI.—129. 1026 AMERICAN MEMORIALS IN LONDON. [ THE LOWELL WINDOW AND TABLET IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. window there is set in high relief the head of thepoet, with the inscription : This tablet and the window above were placed here in memory of James Russell Lowell United States Minister at the Court of St. James From 1880 to 1885 — By his English friends. VERITAS. Born 22 Feb. 1819Died August 1891. Great and noble and loyal as were Emerson,Hawthorne, and Longfellow, yet Lowell by his pen and voice did
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE LONGFELLOW BUST IN THE POETS CORNER, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Vol. XXXI.—129. 1026 AMERICAN MEMORIALS IN LONDON. [ THE LOWELL WINDOW AND TABLET IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. window there is set in high relief the head of thepoet, with the inscription : This tablet and the window above were placed here in memory of James Russell Lowell United States Minister at the Court of St. James From 1880 to 1885 — By his English friends. VERITAS. Born 22 Feb. 1819Died August 1891. Great and noble and loyal as were Emerson,Hawthorne, and Longfellow, yet Lowell by his pen and voice did more than any other ofAmericas great, writers for the cause of Free-dom. His Biglow Papers, with their keenthrusts of Yankee wit and shrewdness, were apower in those stirring days; and he wrote alsomany fervid poems against slavery, includingthose ringing lines: Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;Some great cause, Gods new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right;And the choice goes by
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