Life: August 20, 1829 - September 9, 1890
Birthday: August 20
Death: September 9
A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.
source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 384), 1895.
topic: Life, Ocean, Eye, Incessantly, Sod