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The sense of grand poetry, read by the light of this event, is brought out distinctly like an invisible writing held to the fire:—

We have heard that the Boston lady who recently visited our hero in prison found him wearing still the clothes, all cut and torn by sabres and by bayonet thrusts, in which he had been taken prisoner; and thus he had gone to his trial; and without a hat. She spent her time in prison mending those clothes, and, for a memento, brought home a pin covered with blood.

What are the clothes that endure?

The well-known verses called "The Soul's Errand," supposed, by some, to have been