[SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE.]
FITZ GREENE HALLECK.
If one is not too critical there is a good deal of pleasure to be got out of Halleck’s volume.—National Magazine (1852).
Dana, Halleck and Bryant rose together on steady wings and gave voices to the solitude; Dana with a broad, grave undertone like that of the sea; Bryant with a sound as of the wind in summer woods, and the fall of waters in mountain dells; and Halleck with strains blown from a silver trumpet, breathing manly fire and courage.—Bayard Taylor.
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The world is bright before thee,
Its summer flowers are thine,
Its calm, blue sky is o’er thee,
Thy bosom pleasure’s shrine;
And thine the sunbeam given,