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" 'This bird of Paradise upon the wings
Of flaming Seraphs mounts, she sitts and sings,
And sees as she is seen her God above.
And in the armes of Jesus drowns in love.
bereaved ! me now left alone
Me ah !
My lovely turtle ever to bemoan ;
So long my morning star whose beaming eyes
Did never open but my day would rise
So long my constant help to give relief,
Double my comfort and divide my grief ;
So long my loving wife, of thee bereaven
I have no friend so good unless in Heaven ;
I'll not forget thy kindness nor thy charms.
But love thee dead that long lay in my arms.' "
From 1750 to 1754 he was Chief Magistrate of Connecticut. At the
end of that time occurred one of the violent reactions of public feeling
which often come to popular servants of the public. In the sudden out-
break of misapprehension and misrepresentation he was,'"
his autobiography, " '
dismist
;
" '
as he says in
by a great majority of voices. I had now the
common fate of discarded favorites.'" But "time" which "makes all
things even " soon restored the confidence of the public in his guileless
character, the disinterestedness of his motives, and his good judgment,
sagacity and foresight in public affairs.
" ' I am now stript,' " he says, " ' of
all public trust and business, and )'et have lost
nothing that was my own, or that I had a right to claim a continuance of, or anything
that, considering my age, it is not better for me to be without than to have. Ma)^ I
not then take this as a benefit, and, since my mother's Sons have discharged me from
keeping their vineyard, apply myself more closely to the keeping of my own. .
. .'
We may here appropriately quote a graphic word-picture of his
personal appearance in public :
" ' Several times a week he rode out on horse-back [to Wethersfield], and never
appeared abroad but in full-dress.
"