| | 1 | Author: | Knight, Enoch | Add | | | Title: | The Real Artemus Ward  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE above epitaph, written by the genial humorist's mother, one may
read on a marble slab in the little cemetery at Waterford, Oxford
County, Maine,— "Water-ford near Rum-ford," as he used to say, "the
little village that nestled amongst the hills and never did anything but
nestle." It is a charming spot where rest the remains of Charles Farrar
Browne, looking out upon the little lake, and hard by the edge of a
beech and maple wood,
Where ruddy children tumbled in their play,
And lovers came to woo,
in the days when I first knew the place. Born in the same year and in
the same neighborhood as himself, and all the scenes of his early life
being as dear and familiar to me as the songs of the birds or the crests
of the bordering hills, it has seemed partly a duty, as well as a
privilege and pleasure, to add my little contribution to the literature
his career has called forth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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