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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
m, as being the poet with whose whole tone of mind he would have been most in sympathy. ... Unless you wish heirloom to be substituted for freehold, I will retain the latter as the original. Whittier was taken with his last illness while visiting at the house of his friend, Miss Sarah A. Gove of Hampton Falls, N. H., seven miles from Amesbury. Miss Gove was the daughter of an old friend; of that saintly woman whom we associate with one of the most spiritual and beautiful of his poems, A Friend's Burial. Fields's Whittier, p. 101. On September 3, he had a slight paralytic stroke which produced a difficulty in taking food or medicine, and it was plain that he could not be removed to Amesbury, where he had always hoped to die. He was conscious to the last, was grateful to every one; and several times said Love to all the world. He died in serene and quiet constancy to that feeling of affection, and had little acute pain. He lay all night in peace, and died in the morning, on