Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
“The Belvedere Apollo,”—Henry Hart Milman.
Henry Hart Milman, a celebrated English clergyman, historian, and poet, was born in London, February 10, 1791, and died near Ascot, September 24, 1868. He wrote: “Fall of Jerusalem,” “History of Christianity under the Empire,” “History of the Jews,” and his most important work, “The History of Latin Christianity down to the Death of Pope Nicholas V.”
High in his chariot glow’d the lamp of day.
“The Shipwreck,” Canto I, III; L. 3,—Falconer.
William Falconer, a noted Scotch poet, was born February 11, 1732, and died in 1769. He wrote: “The Demagogue,” a “Universal Dictionary of the Marine,” and numerous odes, satires and poems; the most famous of his poems being “The Shipwreck.”
Genius hath electric power
Which earth can never tame,
Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower,
Its flash is still the same.
“Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage,”—Lydia M. Child.
Lydia Maria Child, a famous American prose-writer, was born in Medford, Mass., February 11, 1802, and died in Wayland, Mass., October 20, 1880. Among her numerous works may be mentioned, “Philothea,” “Fact and Fiction,” “Looking Toward Sunset,” “Miria: A Romance of the Republic,” “Hobomok,” “Aspirations of the World,” etc.
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.