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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). The Poetical Works in Four Volumes. 1892.

Appendix II. Poems Printed in the ‘Life of Whittier’

An Autograph

[Written for an old friend, Rev. S. H. Emery, of Quincy, Ill., who revisited Whittier in 1868.]

THE YEARS that since we met have flown

Leave as they found me, still alone:

No wife, nor child, nor grandchild dear,

Are mine the heart of age to cheer.

More favored thou, with hair less gray

Than mine, canst let thy fancy stray

To where thy little Constance sees

The prairie ripple in the breeze;

For one like her to lisp thy name

Is better than the voice of fame.