18 DUDLEY MEMORIAL VOLUME 



Dudley was master of a quiet and refined but effective English style. 

 He was one of those scientific men, too few I fear, who have real love 

 for literature, and who understand what poetry is and what it is about. 

 In his early days he wrote graceful verse. Three of his poems are in print, 

 "The Kaaterskills as seen from the Taconics," "Sunrise on the Kaaterskill" 

 and "A Legend of the Lehigh Valley." The last is the story of the 

 Moravian settlements of "Friedenhiitten, Tents of Peace, and Gnadenhiitten, 

 Tents of Grace." 



From the first of these, I quote: 



'Twas reached at last, with toiling long and weary 



Taconic's loftiest hill; 

 Then, visions of all visions, stood uncovered 



The domes of Kaaterskill ! 



They rose above the lesser hills as sovereigns 



Above the common herd; 

 They gathered then in conclave grand and solemn ; 



They breathed no spoken word. 



But full as anthemed voices of the ocean 



A soundless song was borne 

 Up from those lips that changeless through the ages 



Sang on Creation's morn. 



A mighty calm sits on these silent summits. 



Time fades, as breath away. 

 O'er all in solemn oceanic pulsings 



Deep flows — Eternity. 



From "A Legend of the Lehigh Valley'' I quote the last verses: 



Full six score years have passed away. 



Still on the silent smnmer morn, 

 At noon's repose, or evening's gray. 

 O'er Lehigh's vale this dirge is borne. 

 The reaper hears, on far-off hills, 

 And the traveler by the mountain rills. 

 And the fisher in the evening's chills; 



