The Doomed Author:Alexander Hamilton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: Carey, Lea and Blanchard Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. " No loved one now in feigned lament could rave ; No friend the parting hand extended gave ; Ere the cold Stranger passed to other climes." t Bvron. Many centuries had elapsed since the occurrence of the events recorded in the preceding chapter, when I found myself, on one of those calm and beautiful mornings, which are peculiar to an Eastern clime, slowly wandering along the banks of the sacred Ganges. I gazed upon its tranquil, motionless beauty, till, like the followers of Vishnu, I could have deemed it nigh divine. A cool fragrant air arose from its transparent wave, the refreshing sweetness of which can only be esteemed by those who have sojourned in the burning clime of India. A delicious fragrance issued from a thousand aromatic shrubs, and in the coolness and beauty of the morning 1 could almost have fancied myself transplanted to that place, of a brighter and a better hope, where the " wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." But ihe increasing heat of the rising sun soon served to remind me that I was still a wanderer in this sad world, and that I had not yet departed to where scorching heats and chilling colds are alike unknown and unfelt. At no great distance from the spot where I stood, a deep grove of mingled tamarind and mango trees afforded a cool and grateful shelter from the overpowering rays of the sun. I bathed my limbs in the sacred river, although without experiencing, or believing in any of those benefits which the Hindoos attribute to its sanctity, and then hurried to repose beneath therefreshing sh...« less