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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 12: editor of the New Yorker. (search)
s flow— There has been one to shed affection's tear, And 'mid a nation's joy, to feel a pang of woe! No! scorn them not, those flowers, They speak too deeply to each feeling heart— They tell that Guilt hath still its holier hours— That none may e'er from earth unmourned depart; That none bath all effaced The spell of Eden o'er his spirit cast, The heavenly image in his features traced— Or quenched the love unchanging to the last! Another of the Historic Pencilings, was on the Death of Pericles. This was its last stanza: No! let the brutal conqueror Still glut his soul with war, And let the ignoble million With shouts surround his car; But dearer far the lasting fame Which twines its wreaths with peace— Give me the tearless memory Of the mighty one of Greece. Only one of his poems seems to have been inspired by the tender passion. It is dated May 31st, 1834. Who this bright Vision was to whom the poem was addressed, or whether it was ever visible to any but the poet's