. Contemporary American biography . ingers. He was a lyric poet, pureand simple. He wrote no epics. He climbed no dizzy heights. He sang songs for the people,and was loved and honored by the people. He was a master painter with his verse and couldpicture a landscape in a line. His Barefoot Boy is a medallion; his Snow-Bound a casketof clean-cut cameos. But he loved melody and song better than he did felicity of phrasing;and so do his listeners. Witness the hold of Maud Muller and Barbara Frietchie upon usall. Full of years and honors, and blessed with the love of his fellow-men—deserved if eve
. Contemporary American biography . ingers. He was a lyric poet, pureand simple. He wrote no epics. He climbed no dizzy heights. He sang songs for the people,and was loved and honored by the people. He was a master painter with his verse and couldpicture a landscape in a line. His Barefoot Boy is a medallion; his Snow-Bound a casketof clean-cut cameos. But he loved melody and song better than he did felicity of phrasing;and so do his listeners. Witness the hold of Maud Muller and Barbara Frietchie upon usall. Full of years and honors, and blessed with the love of his fellow-men—deserved if everlove and honors were—he went down into the valley and came up again on the other side—peaceful, radiant, little changed, for he had been almost spirit for many years. The dead bardof Amesbury will be adjudged something more than poet, or friend, or fellow-citizen, for hehad touched the common chord of nature which makes the whole world kin. Whittier, byhis songs, has made it easier for men to live and easier for them to
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