Dear Lord and Father of mankind Hymn - Westminster Abbey (with lyrics)

When I was a child, the family usually went to the beach on summer weekends.  Driving Route 110, we passed a house in Haverhill that had a sign that read it was the birthplace of John Greenleaf Whittier.

        Invariably, my father would turn to me and say, "You may be pretty smart, but the man that lived there was wittier."

       He was a poet.  Here is a hymn made from Whittier's poem, "The Brewing of Soma."

Serenity

 On sunny weekends my family would go to one of the beaches, i.e., Salisbury, Seabrook, Hampton, or Rye.  We took Route 110.  The poet John Greenleaf Whittier was born in a house along 110.  Every time we rode by that house, my dad will tell the same joke: You may think you're pretty smart but the man who lived in that house was wittier!

Serenity

by

John Grenleaf Whittier

And so, beside the silent sea,

      I wait the muffled oar;

No harm from Him can come to me

      On ocean or on shore.

Coming Home

On the way home, we saw one more moose. We took our time and stopped and took some more pictures.

Dick especially wanted to go back to Bryant Pond, where he and the Grumpy Old Men were a few days ago. Dick wanted to take pictures. He showed me around the place. I couldn't believe that they hiked up Mt. Christopher. He obviously has very fond memories of the place.

I can see why the guys like it.

On the way home, we passed the birth place of John Greenleaf Whittier. My father had an old joke that he use to say, whenever we drove by. So I thought I'd tell it to Dick.

"See that place (pointing to the sign that read 'Birth place of J.G. Whittier.' Well you think you're pretty smart, but the man that was born there was wittier."

I won't tell you what Dick said. 8-/