The struggles through which he passed
and the victory he achieved are summed up in a passage which may well be
the last word of this biography. For Sidney Lanier was
The catholic man who hath mightily won
God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain
And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
[End of original text.]
Notes to the text:
The illustrations cannot be included in this ASCII edition.
This list of illustrations originally followed the table of contents:
List of Illustrations
Sidney Lanier in 1870. (Photogravure.) Frontispiece
Sidney Lanier at the age of fifteen, in 1857
Sidney Lanier in 1866, from a "carte de visite" photograph
in possession of Mr. Milton H. Northrup, of Syracuse, N.Y.
Mary Day Lanier in 1873
Facsimile of one of Lanier's earliest existing musical scores,
written at the age of 19
Facsimile of letter to Charlotte Cushman
Bronze bust of Sidney Lanier by Ephraim Keyser
The index, being unnecessary, has been omitted.
The following changes were made to the text:
Throughout the text, contractions including "n't", as in "isn't", "wasn't",
"wouldn't", etc., were in the original text given in an older form,
e.g. "is n't", "was n't", "would n't", etc. These occurrences
have been modernised.
Chapter III:
"his thin hands tightly clinched,"
changed to:
"his thin hands tightly clenched,"
Chapter IV:
"In another letter (June 29, 1866) he encloses a photograph* and comments on"
(accompanied by the footnote: "* See p.
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