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WHEN I READ THE BOOK.

WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,

And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a          man's life?

And so will some one, when I am dead and gone, write          my life?

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(As if any man really knew aught of my life;

Why, even I myself, I often think, know little or noth-          ing of my real life;

Only a few hints—a few diffused, faint clues and indi-          rections,

I seek, for my own use, to trace out here.)

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