East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-11-29
The Poet-Editor Bryant.

The poet and editor, VIM. G. Bry-
ant, Of the New York Erenmg Post,
was seventy-one years old on the 3D.
of November. He bears his age well.
Frost lies white upon his ample beard,
but the fire Of youth is in his eye, and
his heart still beats strongly and stead
lg Sign Tih 81 ssrdas Ss tRGsscah fRyGs that aecssSo
mind, working alertly and clearly, is
quick IN perception and as logical in
deduction as it was twenty years ago.
His slight and agile figure, passing
rapidly among the crowds of the
street, is that of man of thirty years
rather than the frame which men
usually associate with septuagena-
rian's weight of years. He uses no
glasses to aid his vision. The nearest
approach ho was ever known TO make
to confession of imperfect sight was
in my hearing about year ago
Going to a window to read news
paper, he uttered good-natured re-
monstrance. against the fineness OF tho
print, observing that he "didn't intend
to wear spectacles so long as he could
help it, but wished the papers would
not use such small type"
In the matter Of dress, Mr.. Bryant
is neither Count D'Orsay nor a
Horace Greeley. He greatly prefers
cleanliness to style; is always tidy, but
blissfully unconscious of the require
ments of fashion, and, like Dominic
Sampson, would be quite likely to at
tribute to the preservative qualities OF
the atmosphere the exceeding glossi-
ness of any new garment surreptiously
introduced into his apartment over
night. Yet he is orderly and precise
in his intellectual lde-7almost to the
extreme Of fastidiousness and hyper
criticism, as if Natures principle OF
compensation were specially illustrated
in his case. He has a hearty con-
tempt for shams, snobs, and Stiffness ;
admires pluck, perseverance and in
dustry; adores Nature, and works hard
for the love Of work, and readily rec
ognizes worker when he sees him
finds his recreation in recondite stud
les, in green fields, babbling brooks,
and the study of natural forms in
digging among the roots of language,
in planting trees, making newspapers,
and observing mankind lin the prat-
tlc of children and the wisdom of the
schools lin short, in everything that
the world does and mon think.
He has pleasant ways. At odd
moments ho invites friends to little
trials of gymnastic exercise. "Can
YOU do that?" he said once to much
younger man, suiting the action to the
word by lifting himself to the top OF
the door by his hands, and swinging
up and down and sideways, varying
the sport by grasping the decreasing,
and repeating the feat in more diff.
cult position. The junior tried it, but
failed; he had not leaped so many
high rail-ienecs in the country as Mr.
Bryant had leaped, and the brown
beard could not wag in mir as the
white one wagged. Rarely, if fence
or n gate is in the way at Roslyn, does
its owncr stop to dodge it or open it
Ho leaps it. II q horse is not har-
nessed he walks. If storm howls
and valued friend is lonely in dis.
tant house, he trudges off with an
umbrella in one hand and bouquet
of flowers in the other; Offering the
latter and his company where he
knows that both will DO welcome
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