The Literary Remains of the Late Willis Gaylord Clar
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Excerpt from The Literary Remains of the Late Willis Gaylord Clar: Including the Ollapodiana Papers, the Spirit of Life, and a Selection From His Various Prose and Poetical Writings It was my purpose, in introducing the ensuing pages to the public, to have accompanied them with a more elaborate Memoir of the life of their author than had hitherto appeared; the chief additional attraction of which, however, I had hoped to present in extracts from his familiar correspondence. I say ´ chief attraction,´ because in the able Memoir from the pen of his eminent friend, Hon. Judge Conrad, of Philadelphia, published in ´Graham´s Magazine* for 1840, and in the excellent and authentic sketch which prefaces the selections from his verse in Mr. Griswold´s ´Poets and Poetry of America´ - of the former of which the Departed often expressed his approbation - all that is essential for the information of the reader was felicitously and succinctly embodied. But, as I have said, something more than this I had contemplated; something which, under his own hand, and in the easy play of unstudied correspondence with his most intimate friend on earth, should be an exponent of his ´inner life,´ his every-day thoughts, impulses, and affections. Why I have not been able to do this, I shall now briefly explain. For many many months previous to the death of my twin-brother, that event was constantly in my mind, and tinged the whole current of my thoughts. Each sun that rose and set upon us, I ´counted toward his last resting-place;´ and the slow-swinging pendulum of a clock, accidentally encountered, appeared to me to have but one purpose; it was notching his resistless progress to an early grave. When the last bitter hour came; when all that was mortal of my ´severed half´ had ceased to live; nothing it seemed could add to the poignant sense of present bereavement. I was told indeed that Time, the great Healer, would soften the bitterness of my regret; that even the memory of a past sorrow might yet become ´pleasant, though mournful to the soul.´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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