Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 [1819], The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. [Pseud], volume 1 (C. S. Van Winkle, New York) [word count] [eaf214v1].
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Acknowledgment
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DIED, August 16, 1826.
In this town, on Wednesday night last,
Hon. ROYALL TYLER, Esq. aged 66.
Judge Tyler was a native of Boston, and
commenced his publick life as Aid-de-camp
to Gen. Lincoln, who commanded the army
that suppressed the rebellion of Shays, in
1786-7. During that campaign, Mr. Tyler
was charged by Gen. Lincoln with a special
mission to the government of Vermont, then
administered by the Father of this State, the
venerable Thomas Chittenden. Upon that
occasion Mr. T. was permitted to address the
Legislature of this State, then in session at
Bennington, and displayed for the first time
to “Green Mountain Boys” the charms of
that classical eloquence which has since given
great celebrity to his name. The circumstances
of this mission are recorded in Judge
Minot's elegant history of the Rebellion in
Massachusetts. About four years afterwards
Mr. Tyler removed to Vermont, and very
soon became one of our most distinguished
advocates. He was an assistant Judge of the
Supreme Court six years, and Chief Judge of
the same Court six years more. As a man
of genius, a poet, an orator, a civilian, an
erudite and accomplished scholar, and a gentleman
of the most elegant and endearing
manners in social and domestic life, his memory
will long be cherished with affection and
respect, by the companions of his youth in
Massachusetts, and those of his mature and
declining years in Vermont. “The Algerine
Captive,” unquestionably one of the most original
and brilliant productions of this generation,
will for ever secure him a high rank
among American writers, and the future admirers
of his beautiful poems will “give his
name in charge to the sweet lyre.”
To his amiable surviving widow, and a numerous
family of children, who are now indeed
the sons and daughters of sorrow, and
who, while they have been led by parental
care along the elegant paths of literature,
have also been taught that the ways of virtue
are ways of pleasantness and all her paths
peace, an irreparable loss admits those consolations
only which well instructed and pious
minds never fail to derive from the sacred
truths and sublime prospects of our holy religion.
Alas! the flowers which all our gardens yield,
Even the grass that decks the summer field,
Which dead in wintry sepulchres appear,
Revive in spring, and bloom another year:
But ah! the great, the brave, the learn'd, the wise,
Soon as the hand of death has clos'd their eyes,
In tombs forgotten lie, no suns restore,
They sleep in silent graves, to wake no more,
Till that dread hour, when the loud trump shall call
Th' unnumber'd flock of him who died for ALL—
That Spring will come---that Shepherd reign on high---
All knees shall bow---all tongues shall praise---one cry
Of joy shall fill all worlds---and Death itself shall die.
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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 [1819], The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. [Pseud], volume 1 (C. S. Van Winkle, New York) [word count] [eaf214v1].
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