There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

His sentimentalism appealed to a wide circle but his was one of the tapers which were extinguiJames Gates Percivald by James Russell Lowell. He had also a reputation as a geologist. Biography
He was a precocious child and a morbid and impractical though versatile man with a facility in writing verse on all manner of subjects and in nearly every known meter.