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EH TjTKN miles even day, going to and from school, has Alonzo driven since liKk')- ,ut we never hear him complaining of S8K8S3 ,lis ot: on tl e contrary. l|e always has a cheery word or a ® °“ smile: in short Alonzo is an optomisl. Ills education previous to ids High School work was obtained in a country school near his home, lie was bom August 2. 18S7.
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The great throat of the chimney laughed; The house-dog on his paws outspread Lay to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette oh the wall A couchant tiger seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet. Between the andirons straggling feet. The mug of cider simmered slow The apples sputtered In a row, And close at hand the basket stood With nuts from brown October’s wood. in choosing the theme Whittier did not choose one that he knew nothing about but choose one that was nearest to Ids heart. The Winter Idyl is correctly named: he was a lover of home. How tieautifully he pictures to us his father telling Ids stories of adventure: the loving mother relating the stories of Sewall and t’hakley: and Ids uncle who was “rich in lore of Helds ■ and brooks;’’ the maiden aunt, the elder sister and Ids other sister “Lifting her large sweet, asking eyes ’ But while Whittier was the truest singer of wayside and homestead life, lie was also, more than all others, the poet of the sentiments and convictions of the New Kngland people. This is forcibly illustrated by his anti-slavery poems. He stood as a mouth piece for New Kngland in her protest against tyranny, lie wrote with prophetic fervor, “The burden of a prophet’s power Fell on me in that fearful hour; From off unutterable woes The curtain of the future rose; I saw far clown the coming time The tiery chastisement of crime: With noise of mingling; hosts and jar Of falling towers and shouts of war. I saw the nations rise and fall. Like fire gleams on my tent’s white wall.” In this he extended his territory and Iwcame the‘‘Prophet Bard of America.” However, by some critics he has been thought to have tieeu so very local that for this reason he has never Ikhmi as universally known as Longfellow or some of our other singers have been. Time only is increasing the popularity of this great man. It was his sole pur|x se in life to help make the world better and as some one has said to have his name, like Hen Adham's. enrolled as of one that loved his fellow-men.” Edmund Clarence Stcdman wrote of him. before his death. Our eldest living poet, then, is canonized already by his people as one who left t » silence his personal ex| erlence, yet entered thoroughly into their joy and sorrow: who has l een. like a celibati priest, tlie consolor of tlie lieartsof others and the keeper of ids own. who has best known the work and feeling of the humble household and whose legend manifestly is pro aris et fools. ’ s
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