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it was a family one " Veritas." And may not 

 that word have had an influence on his mind, 

 and through his mind on his writings, so distin- 

 guished for truthfulness ? 



PISCATOR. I agree with you that the highest 

 poetry is the most truthful, and also that the 

 poet's motto might have had some faint in- 

 fluence, as well as his name, on the poet's muse. 

 You will see, as I think, a happy use of this 

 motto in the new church at Ambleside, where, 

 inscribed on the three memorial windows 

 placed there to the poet and his dearest female 

 relations, it serves as a connecting link ; and 

 let me tell you, that these windows denote 

 equally near and remote respect for and admi- 

 ration of the poet's worth and genius, the 

 subscription that paid for them having been 

 made principally in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood amongst the friends of the deceased, and 

 across the Atlantic, in the United States 

 amongst those who knew him chiefly through 

 his writings, at the invitation of a man who 

 revered the poet, and was worthy of his friend- 

 ship, the late Professor Henry Eeed. You 

 may remember his fate, how, like Milton's 

 friend, so eloquently bewailed in Lysidas, he 



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