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literary instincts who must have figured fairly 

 large in the New York journalistic world of his 

 day. He wrote novels, plays, operas and a vast 

 amount of miscellaneous matter. He founded 

 one journal after another, among these the New 

 York Mirror, yet the world recalls him only by 

 way of the little song, sweated out of him by the 

 heat of an August day in New York. Those 

 things that the poets " dash off " at one sitting 

 are usually, rightfully, the cause of editorial 

 derision. Now and then, it seems, something is 

 wrung out of a man's heart at a single twist that 

 taps the deep springs of immortality. 



Governor Bradford, writing of Plymouth Col- 

 ony, early regretted that his Pilgrims were little 

 content to stay within easy reach of Plymouth 

 Rock but remained Pilgrims still, migrating 

 through the woods and along shore to seek 

 new and better farms. This was but the further 

 expression of that wanderlust which had brought 

 so many of the followers of the Pilgrims over 

 seas. The spirit of adventure manned many a 

 ship that followed the Mayflower to Massachu- 

 setts Bay, and the descendants of these adven- 



