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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 3: community life (search)
rectness of the sentiments quoted above, we must admit that they are expressed in clear and vigorous prose, which it would be difficult to improve. But our aspiring writer did not content himself with prose. Indeed, the family tradition is that, under the guidance of a favorite aunt, he began to write poetry at the early age of eight. Some of his lines are still occasionally quoted by his daughters. After his connection was made with Brook Farm he resumed the practice, and as early as April, 1842, contributed to the Dial a poem of fifteen lines entitled Herzliebste. This was followed in July by one of fourteen lines on Eternity. The next year he wrote for the same paper Manfulness and Via Sacra. In 1844 he wrote a touching tribute of sixteen lines to his friend Robert Bartlett, who had been reported as dead, also another to Edelfrida. Throughout the year 1845 his muse seems to have been more prolific, for he published in the Harbinger Auf Wiedlersehen, which was followed by a