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He is the only poet to my knowledge who ever used the composition-stick instead of a pen for the vehicle of inspiration. The elegy may still be read in Duyckinck's Cyclopædia, and on perusing it we may well repeat the first line: "What mournful accents thus accost mine ear!" Now began a period of growing prosperity for our philosopher.
"Your articles are so long," Bok would explain. "Long?" Doctor Briggs would echo. "You don't measure theological discussions by the yardstick, young man." "Perhaps not," the young assembler would maintain. But we have to do some measuring here by the composition-stick, just the same." And the Union Seminary theologian was never able successfully, to vault that hurdle!
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