It is no small achievement to have sung a few imperishable songs of bereaved love and illusive beauty. It is no small achievement to have produced individual and unexcelled strains of harmony which have since so rung in the ears of brother poets that echoes of them may be detected even in the work of such original and accomplished versemen as Rossetti and Swinburne. It is no small achievement to have pursued one’s ideal until one’s dying day, conscious the while that, great as one’s impediments have been from without, one’s chief obstacle has been one’s own self.
William P. Trent
All who possess the divine element of pity will unite in feeling that his sufferings were his expiation.
Letitia H. Wrenshall
October Ninth
BATTLE OF KING’S MOUNTAIN: THE FIRST REBEL YELL
And they came, these mountaineers of the South. Congress has not ordered them; it is a rally of volunteers.... They neither hesitate nor parley; they hitch their horses to the trees; like a girdle of steel they clasp the mountain; and up they go, at the enemy—rifles blazing as they advance, and the Southern yell ringing through the woods.
Thomas E. Watson
It was the joyful annunciation of that turn of the tide of success which terminated the Revolutionary War with the seal of our independence.