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Thus all things created, the God of all grace, Of four prime materials, each good in its place. The work of His hands, when completed, He view'd, And saw and pronounc'd that 'twas seemly and good. In the marvellous things, which to me thou hast told The wisdom of God I most clearly behold, And did He not also make man of the same Materials He us'd when the world He did frame?
The whole scene, with what it arous'd, memories of my young days there half a century ago, the vast kitchen and ample fireplace and the sitting-room adjoining, the plain furniture, the meals, the house full of merry people, my grandmother Amy's sweet old face in its Quaker cap, my grandfather "the Major," jovial, red, stout, with sonorous voice and characteristic physiognomy, with the actual sights themselves, made the most pronounc'd half-day's experience of my whole jaunt.
The remarkable gathering of gray heads, celebrities the finely render'd anthem, and other music the church, dim even now at approaching noon, in its light from the mellow-stain'd windows-the pronounc'd eulogy on the bard who loved Nature so fondly, and sung so well her shows and seasons ending with these appropriate well-known lines: I gazed upon the glorious sky, And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant that in flowery June, When brooks send up a joyous tune, And groves a cheerful sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich green mountain turf should break.
Sept. 30, '82, 4.30 A.M. I am down in Camden county, New Jersey, at the farmhouse of the Staffords have been looking a long while at the comet have in my time seen longer-tail'd ones, but never one so pronounc'd in cometary character, and so spectral-fierce so like some great, pale, living monster of the air or sea.
Once, a canvas office where you could send a message by electricity anywhere around the world! Yes, pronounc'd signs of the man of latest dates, dauntlessly grappling with these grisliest shows of the old kosmos. At several places steam saw-mills, with their piles of logs and boards, and the pipes puffing. Occasionally Platte canon expanding into a grassy flat of a few acres.
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