XXVIII
Clara Barton—humanity is richer for her having lived.
Grand Rapids (Mich.)Press.
Grand Rapids (Mich.)Press.
Grand Rapids (Mich.)Press.
Grand Rapids (Mich.)Press.
Life is a shuttle.Merry Wives of Windsor.
Life is a bubble.Wm. Browne.
Life is a miracle.King Lear.
Life is a walking shadow.Meredith.
Life is like a stroll on the beach.Thoreau.
Life is scarcely the twinkle of a star.Bayard Taylor.
Life lives only in success.Swift.
That life is long that answers life’s great end.
Young’s Night Thoughts.
Young’s Night Thoughts.
Young’s Night Thoughts.
Young’s Night Thoughts.
For the multitude of failures I have encountered I am sorry.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Life is so short at best.Clara Barton.
It’s now three minutes past twelve and I am thirty-three. Alas, my friend, the years pass swiftly by, but I do not regret them so much for what I have done, as what Imighthave done.Byron.
Clara Barton supplied the place of mother and sister to the sick soldiers, and this she did for many months, while in the deadly miasma of the South Carolina marshes. Much of this time she was with the soldiers and facing the guns of Fort Wagner. There with theshot and shell whistling about her, the heroic woman could be seen at all hours of the day and night stooping over the wounded soldiers, and tenderly administering to their wants. An officer who had been with the Army of the Potomac said that he had seen this woman upon the field of battle, sitting with the head of a dying soldier in her lap, apparently unconcerned and then only for the comfort of the poor fellow who had but a few moments to live.