—Tasso.
"Sleep mocks at death: when weary of the earth
We do not die—we take an upper berth."
—Dante.
There, too, are reprinted the verses he composed and credited to Judge Cooley, to which allusion has already been made in these pages, and of which Field wrote to his friend Cowen the week they were published: "I think they will create somewhat of a sensation; I have put a good deal of work upon them." All the pieces of verse read by Field at the Indianapolis convention also appear in "Culture's Garland," three of them being included in the article on "Mr. Isaac Watts, Tutor," of which "The Merciful Lad" was one of Field's favorites:
THE MERCIFUL LAD
Through all my life the poor shall find
In me a constant friend,
And on the weak of every kind
My mercy shall attend.