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The Sunday following that visit he wrote from Portland: "Church bells are ringing; clatter of church-going feet on the pavement; boys crying 'Boston Herald; voices of passing men and women: these are the sounds that come to me at this upper window, looking down into the street. "I contrast it all with last Sunday's silence at Manchester-by-the- Sea, and remember my delightful visit there.
There is a brief record in 1879 of a visit to us in Manchester-by-the- Sea. Just before he left he said, "After I am gone to-day, I want you to read Schiller's poem of the 'Ring of Polycrates, if you do not recall it too distinctly. You will know then how I feel about my visit." He repeated also some English hexameters he had essayed from the first book of the Iliad.
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