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CHAPTER XVI.
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The Poet’s First Love.—Playmates.—Miss Mary S. Agnew.—His Fidelity1.—Poems Inspired by Affection.—Her Failing Health.—Consumption.—His Return to Her.—The Marriage at the Death-bed.—Her Death.—The Poet’s Grief.—His Inner Life.—The Story in his own Rhyme.
We now enter upon the most holy ground ever trod by the biographer,—the sacred recesses2 of the human heart. In the annals of ordinary life, or even in those of many great men, the record of their early love may not be important to the reader. But to the poet, these more subtle and more tender emotions are events of the greatest importance. Every heart contains more or less of the poetical3 sentiment, and the love and marriage of any individual is a matter of great moment to him, although it may not be to his biographer. But here we write of a poet. To him, all the strings4 of human feeling had a clear and unmistakable sound. To him, the undertones of life played an important part in the harmony of his being. All that was pure and sweet in love he saw. All that was beautiful and lovable in life he felt, with a keenness none but the poet can know. Hence to him, we find, as in the history of the grand poets of ancient days, his love was a holy sentiment, to be[134] valued as God’s best gift, and to be worshipped as a part of Him.
In a neighboring farm-house, but a short distance from his father’s farm, lived Mary S. Agnew. She was born and reared in the same community, went to the same school, attended the same church, and was a playmate, classmate, and trusted companion. They sought each other in childhood’s days, and their friendship ripened5 into love as imperceptibly and surely as the coming and going of the years developed their lives, and pressed them forward into manhood and womanhood. Her dark hair and eyes, her slender form, her lovable disposition6, her conscientiousness7 and purity were presented to him in that strong light, under which all lovers see the merits and
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gathering
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| 聚集( gathering的名词复数 ); 收集; 采集; 搜集 | |
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affluence
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originality
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fictitious
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quotation
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chilly
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posterity
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solace
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subservient
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manly
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abatement
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despoil
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| v.使结束( consummate的过去式和过去分词 );使完美;完婚;(婚礼后的)圆房 | |
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