9. Point out a couplet which has passed into a proverb.

10. What "sweet hope" is intended in the next to the last stanza?

FOR REFERENCE

"Life of John Greenleaf Whittier" ("Great Writers Series").—Linton.

"John Greenleaf Whittier" ("American Men of letters").—Carpenter.

"Whittier-Land."—Pickard.

"Reminiscences of Whittier's life at Oak Knoll."—Woodman.

"Biographic Clinics."—Gould.

"Authors and Friends."—Fields.

"John Greenleaf Whittier" ("English Men of Letters").—Higginson.