Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-03

part, also. In the last OF IFS meetings
in 1883, to celebrate the gracious llfe
Of Arson Alcott, who died in that
year
But in the thirty years between that
and his graduation az a theolog az
20. Albce had adopted the poet yo-
cation, and he not only wrote good
verse and better prose. but had taken
up his picturesque abode in the oldest
town Of New hampshire, In one of
its oldest houses--thc residence, two
centuries before, of George Jaffrey at
Great Island tnow Newcastle). but
IN the days Of Cranfield and Barefoot
and Champernown, a part Of Ports
mouth, and the capital OF the small
province In 1884. he wrote and pub
lished a history Of Newcastle. unique
among town histories as 1t was con-
ceived IN the mind Of a poet and,
while accurate, without the formal
details Of town history and more re-
sembling Hesods recollections of
Ascra than Felt's Annals Of Salem
Fortunate Is that library which owns
Albee's Newcastle. Historic and Pic
turesque' Two years earlier he had
sung his island home in Poems. to-
gether with the loves and regrets Of
his youth: and in 1892. his Prose
Idyls,' had mingled. IN It's wreath of
short talas and fantasies. memories Of
Belllngham Andover, Newcastle and
Chocorua. BY that time he had be-
come wdower. had sold his poetic
abode by the seaside and had re-
moved to another cottage (but bnilt
a century later1 In front of Mount
Chocorua and It's lovely lake in the
upland town of Tamworth, where he
TILED a few acres, and his second wife
made artistic rugs for New York, Boss
ton and Washington making the cap
it'll his winter home, where he died
In March He celebrated Chocorua In
verse and prose, and adorned his
Lake ChocorHa' tprinted in Wash
ington in 1870. as he had Illustrated
his Newcastle" with quaint drawings
of the houses ANA their inmates. OF
this mountain home he said, five
years ago,
Small my house, my acres small
Vet where | look I'm lord of all.
And far as whore my feet may roam
1 ever find myself at home.
And gold Is here ! might have won
Had | the test " T.ydian stone,
Or magic wand IN hand 60 twist
Where silver hides beneath the sehist.
Ttft there are mines Of richer fee
Which proud Chocoruan heights
oerSee,
Fun twenty lakes though an are
dear,
pearer Chocoruas mountain mere,
ON this to float. with that TO soar
give these, ana life can ask no more,
This sounds the keynote Of Albees
existence. In the midst Of labor ana
pain. for in these later years pain-
full malady made his ramblcs shorter
and his social opportunities fewer
while literary success was mostly de-
MED him. he was cheerful and thank
full for his modest lot IN life. The or
nnment OF any society he might fire.
quent he was equally happy in soli-
tude and he adorned his abundant
leisure with studies and thoughts that
befit the scholar aud the poet lie
was the temperance, among the New
HAMPSHIRE mountains. of Ernest IN
Hawthorne's Great stone Face.
whose untaueht wisdom walked
hand in hand with the noble SIM
plicity OF his life As he wrote upon
Thofeau's death
No more shall summers heat nor
winters cold
Nor autunlns plague, nor rule Of
greedy gold
show the heroic IN an alien world