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My sleepless thoughts a guard of love shall be Around thy couch and bid thee dream of me. Sleep, Bright Eyes, sleep.

Sleep, dearest, sleep, the slumber of the pure;
Sleep, dearest, sleep, in angels' care secure.
Evil itself thy beauty would allure

To cease from ill and make thy joyance sure.
Sleep, Bright Eyes, sleep.

Sleep, dearest, sleep; in slumber thou art mine;
Sleep, dearest, sleep; our souls still intertwine.
Yon radiant star that on thy couch doth shine
Bears from my lips a kiss to lay on thine.

Sleep, Bright Eyes, sleep.

APPENDIX I.

MRS TURNBULL'S study of Lanier will be better appreciated by the light of the following data summarised from President Gates's paper :

Sidney Lanier was descended from a Huguenot family, whose earlier members were famous at the court of the Stuarts for their gifts of music and love of art, transplanted to Virginia in 1716. Born at Macon, Georgia, in 1842, Sidney early showed a passionate fondness for music and wonderful powers as a musician.

At fourteen he entered Oglethorpe College as a sophomore, graduated in 1860, and held the position of tutor at the college until the outbreak of the rebellion. The first call to arms, in April, 1861, found him marching toward Virginia with the first regiment that left his State. Не and his dearly loved younger brother, Clifford, enlisted as privates. They were tent companions, and three times Sidney declined promotion because it would have rendered necessary their separation.

After three campaigns together they were at last separated, and each was placed in command of a privateer. Captured in an attempt to run the blockade, Sidney was for five months a prisoner at Point Lookout. His flute, his inseparable companion in his army life, he had slipped up his sleeve as he entered the prison; and with it the boy prisoner made many friends.

His prison experience is recorded in his only novel, Tiger Lilies, written and sent to the press within three weeks, in 1867-a story now out of print, but described as "luxuriant, unpruned, yet giving rich promise of the poet," abounding in evidences of a fertile imagination and of high ideals of art.

Released from prison a few days before Lee surrendered,

he reached home, emaciated and feeble, only in time to witness his mother's death from consumption. Congestion of the lungs seized on him then, and he never afterward knew vigorous health. Indeed, from this time his life was a prolonged struggle with consumption.

For two years he faithfully discharged the humble duties of clerk in a shop, at Montgomery, Alabama. In 1867 he became principal of an academy at Prattville, and a few weeks later he married Miss Mary Day. The marriage was a most congenial one.

Before the first year of his married life had passed, a violent hæmorrhage from the lungs forced him to give up his position as principal of the school of Prattville. Yielding to the wishes of his father, a lawyer who still practises at Macon, Georgia, he settled at that place, and for five years studied and practised law. The spring and summer of 1870 brought an alarming decline and a distressing cough. Most pronounced symptoms of consumption, in 1872, drove him to New York for medical assistance, and later to Texas for a change of air.

In December 1873 he found in Baltimore the opportunities for broader study which he desired; and, after the fullest deliberation in that correspondence with his father of which we have seen a part, he began a life of systematic study, supporting himself meantime by filling the place of first flute for the Peabody Symphony Concerts. It was a courageous struggle, this long-continued effort to support his wife and children with pen and flute by such work as he had strength to do between frequent hæmorrhages.

At Baltimore he went in for an eager and enthusiastic course of study in Anglo-Saxon and in English literature. These might be styled his professional studies, since they were intimately connected with his own improvement in his chosen art, poetry. But he also read eagerly along lines of natural science, philology, metaphysics, and art. He sought to make himself the full man, whose mind should be stored with well-ordered knowledge of all that concerned his time. He saw clearly what so many poetasters seem never to suspect, that a great poet must know first of all. In his marsh songs there is evidence of a breadth of scientific thought that is cosmic in its far-reaching sweep and in its suggestions of orderly power and unchanging relations, alike in the natural and in the spiritual world. No poet of our time, unless it be Tennyson, has written verse which is at once so instinct with poetic beauty and fire, and so crowded

with suggestions of the scientific theories of our time. These poems demand and repay careful study. They breathe the keenest delight in Nature, and yet inanimate Nature and human life are at one in them, not because the poet's moods are mirrored in Nature, not because he has formally resolved to see human life in symbols, but because soul life is to him so emphatically the source and the support of all life that the growths and phases of Nature are not only interpreters of spiritual and aesthetic truth, but naturally and spontaneously speak that language and share in and express that life.

The years from 1873 to 1876 he spent in Baltimore, alone, his family remaining in the South. His flute and his pen supported them.

The fact that Lanier had been in the Confederate army lent an especial propriety to Bayard Taylor's suggestion that he be chosen to write the words for the cantata at the opening of the Centennial Celebration at Philadelphia, when a reunited North and South first learned to know each other in peace.

In the summer of 1876 his family joined him in West Chester, Pennsylvania, but symptoms so alarming followed a severe cold that his physicians warned him that he could not live until spring unless he sought a warmer climate. The winter of 1877 was passed in Florida.

His devoted study of English literature, continued through all these years, now bore fruit in a course of lectures upon Elizabethan verse, delivered to a parlour class of thirty ladies. The warm praise which these lectures received led to a more ambitious course upon Shakespeare. The lovers of art and letters in Baltimore rallied to the support of these lectures with something of that generous desire to aid struggling genius, mingled with a willingness to be known as the discerning early patrons of a nascent reputation, which marked Carlyle's first lecture courses in London. The undertaking was much talked of, and the lecturer received unlimited encomiums; but the course was so managed that it yielded little or no money to the needy poet.

It had one result that was most welcome to him, however. President Gilman was led by it to offer to Lanier a lectureship on English literature in Johns Hopkins University. The official notification of his appointment reached him on his birthday, in 1879, and brought with it the assurance of a fixed income, however small, for the first time since his marriage twelve years before.

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