406 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



He wooed Nature with a passionate love, ministered at lier 

 altar, sought for her secrets with which to bless mankind. 



•' For all his life was poor without ! 

 O, Nature ! tnalie the last amends : 

 Train all thy flowers his grave about 

 And make thy singing birds his friends 



" Revive again, thou summer rain, 

 The broken turf upon his bed ! 

 Breathe, summer wind, thy tenderest strain 

 Of low, sweet music overhead ! 



" With calm and beauty symbolize 



His peace, which follows long annoy ; 

 And lend our earth-bent mourning eyes 

 Some hint of his diviner joy. 



" For safe with right and truth he is, — 

 As God lives he must live alway. 

 There is no end for souls like his : 

 No night for children of the day." 



— Whittier. 



