James Gates Percival Quotes

James Gates Percival was an American poet, surgeon, and geologist, born in Berlin, Connecticut and died in Hazel Green, Wisconsin. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. September 1795 – 2. May 1856
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“Theirs is no vulgar sepulchre--green sods
Are all their monument, and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles
Or the eternal pyramids.”

"The Graves of the Patriots," first published in the United States Literary Gazette, Vol. 2 (1825).

“On thy fair bosom, silver lake,
The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,
And round his breast the ripples break
As down he bears before the gale.”

To Seneca Lake, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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