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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
being an unimportant thing in this vicinity, and I find my hands as full of business, and my thinking powers taxed quite as much as I care to have them. In fact, my only anxiety now is lest I should not prove equal to the task assigned me; but the best I can I shall do, and I trust the General will be satisfied. The General tells me this shall certainly not prevent my accompanying him if he takes the field, which I feared until to-night it might. In a letter written at midnight of December 31st he says:— Before going to bed I just picked up Tennyson, which was lying on my table, and opening it at random, the first lines which caught my eye were in In Memoriam:— Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light, The year is dying in the night, Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. They brought to my mind, what I had before forgotten, that this is the last night of 1862, and this the last chance to write to you in the old year; so, though I