George Richard Beaumont

George Richard Beaumont was born in October 2. 1853, and lived rather less than twenty-five years, more than a third of which period he was an invalid. Reckoned by years this was a short life: by results it was long.—"the life is long which answers life’s great end." His thoughts and sentiments may be gathered from the following pages; his chief characteristic was reservedness. He was ever quiet and retiring, even before friends, very few of whom really understood him. But this is not a memoir. Let it suffice: as he lived, so he died—quietly and peacefully. “ He faded and so calm end meek. So soflly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tandem—kind; And grieved for those he left behind. And not a word of murmur—not A groan o'er his untimely lot ; And then the sighs he would suppress Of fainting nature's feebleness. More slowly drawn grew less and less; I listened. but I could not hear." Byron.