JAMES STAUNI’ ‘ ON BABCOCK W IT H A BI O GRA P HI CA L S KET CH O F T H E H O R A U T . H A R T F O R D m a " P U B H E D B Y E D W N H I U N T . Y RK : B K A N D C IB O A ER S R NER . 1 8 4 9 EN T E R E D accordi n t o A ct of Con ess i n t he ear 1849 g gr y , Y M Y A N N A C B AR H. B B OCK, ’ s ffi ce of h e s i c ou of onnec t cu i n t he Clerk O t Di tr t C rt C i t . P R E S S 0 F A S E T I F F A N Y C , co . , H A RT F O RD , CO N N . CO N T EN T S . B IO GRA P HI A L S K C ETCH, S O N Gs A N D YRICS L , Wi f ni reda , Mary , S rin S p g ong , S rin S p g ong , T h e S ’ S Young hepherd s ong , T he P arting , T t S S ha Last weet ong, T and T hose Looks ears , S P ong on the rairie , T o G I A a Young irl playing n an rbor , S —T e S t c ong h wee blue lover , S —T h e S ong tars are in the sky , love , Regret , s Con olation , S — ong Consolement , T o Lament , 0 ’s be my grave on the Mountain breast , N H Ode to Capt . athan ale , I V C O N T E N T S . O d e t o S leep , S S of I D s trawberry ong ndian am els , ’ d S of E T Roa ong arth s ravelers , S of t he ongs Laborers , ’ T he P S loughman s ong , S of H ong the aymakers , S of t he ong Reapers, H ’ S Corn usker s ong, ’ T he l S Mi ler s ong , Complain t and Respons e , I dleness , H G f idden rie , ’ A V c oi e to the Young , F aith , Charity, K n i dness , Love , F reedom , D h of F eat the irst Born , ’ D r c of P H est u tion haraoh s ost , D S RIP A N M DI V P E C TIVE D E TA TI E OEMS . E c of A vening voi es utumn , T o F S P c a lower in a olitary la e , h e D D T eserted welling , T o an Ottawa Girl , N iagara , N m E i u a and ger a, C O N T E N T S . 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Reveries, S —E pring, vening, — S pring Morning , Q uestionings , F o f ft ate the Gi ed , F rag ments , T o V s my er es , ’ L E nvoi , N OT ES , P IL S ICA L F RA G E T H O OPH M N S , E R R A T A . a e 82 line 3 : F or du s t read du s k P g , . 1 92 1 0 n , eed meed . 1 1 6 1 1 eani 'n s read eanlin , y g y g s . 1 3 2 9 , M i d read M ad . BIOGRAPHICAL SKET CH OF THE A H U T OR. J M S T A U N T N A C C ‘ w a s r S A ES Q B B O K, bo n in outh C ct cu 1 8 5 . oventry, Conne i t, 1 From his earliest years he disc overed a s erious and thought fu l a d e for l . His turn , n an ager thirst know edge b parents , who were plain ut exemplary persons, s ' c ml in pired him , both by pre ept and exa p e with the ' ’ ' Hi f s prin c iples o f genuine morality . s ather means c c at f im and o up ion as a armer , did not p ermit h to give ‘ uc his o f ext ent nd a c an ed ation to son that _ a eleg n e d N eCessit com whic h his genius seemed to deman . y ‘ p elled the young man to learn t he Ccc u p ation of hi s for n few parents , and his opportunities readi g were f for en coura ement a and brie , nor was there, his g , single learned or literary person in the c irc le o f his f iht . T he c o a cgu a ari ée instin t his nature, however, impelled him to improve to the utmost every trifling ff advantage ; nor di d he su er any book , paper, or a c c i w a p mphlet that a ident threw n his y, to leave his E c hands without a thorough perusal . ven almana s and old newspapers were laid by to be perused at the t c c t first respite from oil and on e read , so ex ellen ' ' 2 BICCRA PHICA Lr sKETCII h s m e W r hi s u ace was i emory, th y e e in s bst n , and a f ni n W d I ut great p art o te the very or s . He ndulged b seldom l n the C CInInon re creat ions of his equals, and “ ' ' - t h n only n ureh as re ui-re vi or a nd e i s games q manly _ g ‘ dis a . m co o e and, skill, fi _ ying In these an un m on p w r ' u f er few efi o i' ts a if aptit de but a t a , as satisfied with hi b C ab I having shown s a ility and ompanion le sp irit , l f a he would retire abrup t y , and all to re ding, or meditat ion . ” Through thé~ serious and aIWays W eIghty substanc e of his t hought s, there gleamed a vein of t he finest and s human ch Who c u d a mo t e humor, whi , to those o l p ' “ reci at e v c n rs c p him, ga e his o ve ation an un ommon r Wit r i er d charIn . His turn towa d an d humo d sCov e itself In his cho ice of reading,w hich s hoWed a pref ' en c fo the t e and t he er e r marvellous, h humorous, ' At the age Cf twelve years he ha d l c c s a e a v n hun a ready olle ted and w d into olume , a o ld cs o f ff te and had dred almana , all di erent da s , “fi lled several large sc rap books With Curi ous and val - 1 f r u able p e c es C prose and ve se . ’ His nc i l t r - in i linat ons led him ear y o histo y , and this his v uisit io ns we re great and remarkable T hey evinced a b re adth Cf ens1on; and a sym h “ ' an t a h w d the ilO S C pathy with hum ity , h t o e ph . r nth t o f fu . pher and phila ropis ture _yea s I d c i o f 1 iCs of InoIah t n the is uss on g ene al t y, W f t im E there ere ew equ alled h . ven at the age f hi s on W c e c s C twelve years, reas ings ere l ar, con i e a d l c and d and e c n ogi al , when intereste x ited, even OF T HE A UT HOR . 3 f n f Ine r fi orcible and eq ue t . His love o truth ve su ‘ fered hi m t o ' n r indulge an instant in a sophistry, o n d c ould any o e detect the same more rea ily in others .