His tenor tones rise lightly on the air,
As now again we seem to hear him there;
The form has stooped to time with yielding grace,
But cheeriness is shining in the face.
His home lay crested, high upon the hill
Away; itself a centre of good will
And peace to man: where too attractions grew
And hung abundant, everybody knew.
Generations held this high, sequestered seat
And round it from afar generations meet;
Who loved its eminence and cooling breeze;
Here grew fruits luscious, full, that blushed to please,
And far the choicer products of the place
Were they who kept the merits of their race
And faithfully transmitted down the line
All that which careful culture could refine.
So gladly here would we all restore him,
As here so peaceful on through life he bore him,
Till worn and spent, like many and another,
He was then borne away by Sleep's twin brother.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Robinson, 1907
As now again we seem to hear him there;
The form has stooped to time with yielding grace,
But cheeriness is shining in the face.
His home lay crested, high upon the hill
Away; itself a centre of good will
And peace to man: where too attractions grew
And hung abundant, everybody knew.
Generations held this high, sequestered seat
And round it from afar generations meet;
Who loved its eminence and cooling breeze;
Here grew fruits luscious, full, that blushed to please,
And far the choicer products of the place
Were they who kept the merits of their race
And faithfully transmitted down the line
All that which careful culture could refine.
So gladly here would we all restore him,
As here so peaceful on through life he bore him,
Till worn and spent, like many and another,
He was then borne away by Sleep's twin brother.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Robinson, 1907
His tenor tones rise lightly on the air,
As now again we seem to hear him there;
The form has stooped to time with yielding grace,
But cheeriness is shining in the face.
His home lay crested, high upon the hill
Away; itself a centre of good will
And peace to man: where too attractions grew
And hung abundant, everybody knew.
Generations held this high, sequestered seat
And round it from afar generations meet;
Who loved its eminence and cooling breeze;
Here grew fruits luscious, full, that blushed to please,
And far the choicer products of the place
Were they who kept the merits of their race
And faithfully transmitted down the line
All that which careful culture could refine.
So gladly here would we all restore him,
As here so peaceful on through life he bore him,
Till worn and spent, like many and another,
He was then borne away by Sleep's twin brother.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Robinson, 1907
As now again we seem to hear him there;
The form has stooped to time with yielding grace,
But cheeriness is shining in the face.
His home lay crested, high upon the hill
Away; itself a centre of good will
And peace to man: where too attractions grew
And hung abundant, everybody knew.
Generations held this high, sequestered seat
And round it from afar generations meet;
Who loved its eminence and cooling breeze;
Here grew fruits luscious, full, that blushed to please,
And far the choicer products of the place
Were they who kept the merits of their race
And faithfully transmitted down the line
All that which careful culture could refine.
So gladly here would we all restore him,
As here so peaceful on through life he bore him,
Till worn and spent, like many and another,
He was then borne away by Sleep's twin brother.
From "Guilford Portraits" by Henry Robinson, 1907
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