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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 6 : South Boston 1844 -1851 ; aet. 25 -32 (search)
Chapter 6: South Boston 1844-1851; aet. 25-32
The rough sketch A great grieved heart, an iron will, As fearless blood as ever ran; A form elate with nervous strength And fibrous vigor,--all a man. A gallant rein, a restless spur, The hand to wield a biting scourge; Small patience for the tasks of Time, Unmeasured power to speed and urge.
He rides the errands of the hour, But sends no herald on his ways; The world would thank the service done, He cannot stay for gold or praise.
Not lair of her own composition.
The poem appeared in Words for the hour, and is one of the tenderest of her personal tributes:--For Death's eternal city Has yet some happy street; 'Tis in the Via Felice My friend and I shall meet.
In the summer of 1851 she turned her face westward.
The call of husband, children, home, was imperative; yet so deep was the spell which Rome had laid upon her that the parting was fraught with pain, amounting almost to anguish.
She was oppressed by the thought that