In Memoriam. - Rev. Stephen Jewitt, D.D.,

Died at New Haven, August 25th, 1861, aged 78.     I well remember him, and heard his voice     In vigorous prime, beneath the Temple-Arch,     His brow enkindling with its holy themes.     And I remember to have heard it said     In what a patient studiousness of toil     His youth had pass'd, and how his manhood's tent     Spread out its curtains joyously, to shield     His aged parents, from their lonely home     Amid the glory of the Berkshire hills,     Turning in tender confidence to him;     And giving scope to earn the boon that crowns     The fifth commandment of the decalogue.     --And this he did, for their departing prayer     Fell balmily upon his filial heart,     As when the dying Jacob, blessed his race     And worshipp'd, leaning on his patriarch-staff.     --His lengthened life amid a peaceful scene     Flow'd on, with loving memories.                         He had serv'd     The Church he lov'd, not in luxurious ease,     But self-forgetful as a pioneer,     When she had fewer sons to build her walls,     Or teach her gates salvation.                         And the dome     Of yon fair College on its classic heighth     So beautiful without, and blest within,--     By liberal deeds, as well as gracious words     Remembereth him and with recording pen     Upon the tablet of its earliest[1] friends     Engraves his name.                         So, full of honor'd years,     Blessing and blest, he took his way, above.