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                    JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

                 His Life, Genius, and Writings

                     BY W. SLOANE KENNEDY

      Author of a "Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," Etc.

                     REVISED AND ENLARGED


    _INTRODUCTION BY REV. S. F. SMITH, D.D._
    Author of Hymn "America"


    Such music as the woods and streams
    Sang in his ear, he sang aloud

            _The Tent on the Beach_


    For all his quiet life flowed on,
      As meadow streamlets flow,
    Where fresher green reveals alo
      The noiseless ways they go

            _The Friend's Burial_


    CHICAGO NEW YORK
    THE WERNER COMPANY

    COPYRIGHT 1892
    BY D. LOTHROP COMPANY

    COPYRIGHT 1895
    BY THE WERNER COMPANY

    John Greenleaf Whittier





INTRODUCTION.


Who does not admire and love John Greenleaf Whittier? And who does not
delight to do him honor? He was a man raised up by Providence to meet an
exigency in human history, and an exigency in the experiences of the
United States. And he met the exigency with distinguished success. He
was a true exponent of New England life and the New England spirit. He
drew his inspiration from the soil where he was born, from the
necessities of the times, from the demands of human rights, from the
love of God and of man. He was a unique man. We knew not his like before
him. We shall see no other like him after him. He was the product of