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Josephine P. Peabody）’; and these are the first two stanzas:—
We have waited, we have longed—
We have longed as none can know,
While this winter smiled with sun
And the spring came in with snow,
Waiting till some hour serene,
Bridegroom worthy should be seen,
For Josephine.
Softly has time glided on—
Love, that wondrous engineer,
Who the hopes of youth and maid
Brings together, far or near,
Drew these closer, till there fell
Potent hands that bound her well
To Lionel.
In 1899-1900
Colonel Higginson gave a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute upon ‘American Orators and Oratory,’ and recorded the fact in his diary: ‘Nov. 15.
My first
Lowell lecture (of course, extempore) and enjoyed it much.
Audience fine and cordial.’
In 1902-03, he gave a second course of Lowell Lectures on ‘American Literature in the Nineteenth Century’; and in the winter of 1905 he delivered a third course on ‘English Literature in the
Last Half of the Nineteenth Century.’
At these lectures, he was always greeted with crowded houses.
Dec. 23, 1902.
Much pleased to find that I could still speak without notes and without forgetfulness
