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In another we have Coleridge's hues : — 



" He prayeth well who lovetli well 

 Both man and bird and beast. 

 He prayeth best who loveth best 

 All things both great and small ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all." 



In another, hardly legible on the marble paper, we find, 



" So runs my dream : but what am 1 1 

 An infant crying in the night : 

 An infant crying for the light : 

 And with no language but a cry." 



All Livingstone's personal friends testify that, con- 

 sidering the state of banishment in which he lived, his 

 acquaintance with English literature was quite remark- 

 able. When a controversy arose in America as to the 

 genuineness of his letters to the New York Herald, the 

 famiharity of the writer with the poems of Whittier was 

 made an argument against him. But Livingstone knew 

 a great part of the poetry of Longfellow, Whittier, and 

 others by heart. 



There was one drawback to the new locality : it was 

 infested with lions. All the world knows the story of 

 the encounter at Mabotsa, which was so near ending 

 Livingstone's career, when the lion seized him by the 

 shoulder, tore his flesh, and crushed his bone. Nothing 

 in all Livingstone's history took more hold of the popular 

 imagination, or was more frequently inquired about when 

 he came home. 1 By a kind of miracle his life was saved, 

 but the encounter left him lame for life of the arm which 

 the lion crunched. 2 But the world generally does not 



1 He did not speak of it spontaneously, and sometimes he gave unexpected 

 answers to questions put to him about it. To one person who asked very 

 earnestly what were his thoughts when the lion was above him, he answered, " I 

 was thinking what part of me he would eat first "—a grotesque thought, which 

 some persons considered strange in so good a man, but which was quite in accord- 

 ance with human experience in similar circumstances. 



2 The false joint in the crushed arm was the mark by which the body of 

 Livingstone was identified when brought home by his followers in 1874. 



