Wales had not the same attraction for him after dear Emily was gone! And soon after her death he was known to take out his first papers in order to become an American citizen.
In a subsequent letter to his parents from Minnesota, in October, 1868, he says that Dr. Davies told him he ought to spend the coming winter in the dry air of that state, in order to give the climate a fair trial. And though it was a cross for him to remain so far from home, yet so anxious was he to regain strength that he did spend that winter in Minnesota; and its dry climate proved beneficial to his health.
With all his ambition to live that he might serve the Master, he could have said:—
"Let the thick curtain fall,
I better know than all
How little I have gained—
How vast the unattained.
Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong—
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of, win.
What matter I or they?
Mine, or another's day?
So the right word be said,
And life the sweeter made.
Ring bells in far off steeples
The joy of unborn peoples,
Sound trumpets far off blown—
Your triumph is my own."
