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DEATHLESS.

This man hath reared a monument more grand
Than sculptured bronze, and loftier than the height
Of regal pyramids in Memphian sand,

Which not the raging tempest nor the might
Of the loud North-wind shall assailing blight,
Nor years unnumbered nor the lapse of time!

Not all of him shall perish! for the bright And deathless part shall spurn with foot sublime The darkness of the grave-the dread and sunless clime!

He shall be sung to all posterity

With freshening praise, where in the morning's glow
The farm-boy with his harnessed team shall be,

And where New England's swifter rivers flow
And orange groves of Alabama blow—

Strong in humility, and great to lead

A mighty people where the ages go!

Take then thy station, O illustrious dead!

And place, Immortal Fame, the garland on his head!

-HORACE: B. III., ODE XXX.

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Genius delights in hatching her offspring in out-of-the-way places.-Irving.

When some great work is waiting to be done,

And Destiny ransacks the city for a man

To do it; finding none therein, she turns

To the fecundity of Nature's woods,

And there, beside some Western hill or stream,

She enters a rude cabin unannounced,
And ere the rough frontiersman from his toil,
Where all day long he hews the thickets down,
Returns at evening, she salutes his wife,

His fair young wife, and says, Behold! thou art
The Mother of the Future!-Anonymous.

EN, like books, have their beginnings. James Abram Gar

ME

field was born on the 19th day of November, 1831. His first outlook upon things was from a cabin door in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The building was of rough logs, with mud between the cracks, to keep out the winter cold. The single room had a puncheon floor, and on one side a large fire-place, with a blackened crane for cooking purposes. In winter evenings, a vast pile of blazing logs in this fire-place filled the cabin with a cheerful warmth and ruddy glow. Overhead, from the rude rafters, hung rows of well-cured hams, and around the mud chimney were long strings of red-pepper pods and dried pumpkins. The furniture was as primitive as the apartment. A puncheon table, a clumsy cupboard, a couple of large bedsteads, made by driving stakes in the floor, some blocks for seats, and a well-kept gun,

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