“Now ’tis the violins that loudest cry,
And now in saddest key the ’cellos sigh.
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Chords that are love and life, and even the sharp,
Hard pain of death—chords of the golden harp.”
“In these verses he reveals a delicacy of perception, a love of nature and an appreciation and reverence for the deeper and finer things of life which one would little suspect in the author of ‘The house of a thousand candles.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ Arena. 36: 221. Ag. ’06. 570w.
“We find in these pieces a graver and more reflective note than in the earlier ones—the natural mark of a maturer experience and a widened outlook.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.