“Here was a type of the true elder race,
And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.”

St. 5.
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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