And then again:
‘He goes on Sunday to the Church,
And sits among the boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter’s voice
Singing in the gallery,
And it makes his heart rejoice.’
Seatsfield repeated these verses with much emotion; and I observed that a tear stood upon his lids. I therefore turned the conversation upon hydropathy, and introduced a quotation from Pindar: αρὶστον μὲν ὕδωρ, etc.
Seatsfield: ‘Pindar, Sir, has expressed a great truth; but I think that Pierpont has expressed it better. In his exquisite ‘Ode on the Opening of the Marlborough Temperance-House’ how beautifully he says, after speaking in regard to the virtues of cold water:
‘Oh! had Eve’s hair