Word: heart
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Till to my heart I would repeat...
Cupid, that imp, has pierced my heart...
Enough has now been quoted to show the reader the general drift of the article. The writer goes on to give heart-rending accounts of the experiences of Messrs. Taylor of Harvard, Driscoll of Williams, Francis of Columbia, and several other unfortunates. He concludes with a peroration replete with high moral sentiments, and attaches to the argument a kind of "preventer backstay" in the following quotation from Scripture: "The Lord delighteth not in the strength of the horse, and taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." As an equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority...
Well, can you wonder at despair, and if his heart did break...
From my glad heart, are like the summer-winds...