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Of his later days, of the calmly received premonitions of that peaceful end of which only the precise moment was uncertain, of his final departure, so gentle and so fitting, of that "Washington-Irving-day" so dreamily, blandly still, and almost fragrant, December though it was, when with those simple and appropriate obsequies his mortal remains were placed by the side of his brothers and sisters in the burial-ground of Sleepy Hollow, while thousands from far and near silently looked for the last time on his genial face and mourned his loss as that of a personal friend and a national benefactor, yet could hardly for his sake desire any more enviable translation from mortality, of the many beautiful and eloquent tributes of living genius to the life and character and writings of the departed author, of all these you have already an ample record.
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