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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 23: return to his profession.—1840-41.—Age, 29-30. (search)
after-course of his life and thought. He did, indeed, set himself with determination to his work, but it had lost the charm it formerly had; and the dreams of those delightful days and the echoes of those far voices haunted his memory. America seemed flat to him after Europe. This, however, slowly passed away, though never, to his dying day, completely. This long-cherished friend of Sumner has recalled these early as well as later days in an In Memoriam :— Blackwood's Magazine, Sept., 1874. For years, dear friend, but rarely had we met, Fate in a different path our feet had set; Space stretched between us, yet you still were near, And friendship had no shadows of regret. At least your noble thoughts can never die,— They live to stir and lift humanity,— They live to sweeten life and cheer us on: If they are with us, surely you are nigh. Yes, in our memory, long as sense remains, That stalwart frame shall live, that voice whose strains, To lofty purpose pitched, struck l<