Born 1831; died 1881. The following poem was [♦]written by the late President Garfield during his senior year in Williams College, Massachusetts, and was published in the Williams “Quarterly” for March, 1856.
[♦] “writen” replaced with “written”
IS beauteous night; the stars look brightly down
Upon the earth, decked in her robe of snow.
No lights gleam at the windows, save my own,
Which gives its cheer to midnight and to me.
And now with noiseless step, sweet memory comes
And leads me gently through her twilight realms.
What poet’s tuneful lyre has ever sung,