About the author, Henry Van Dyke: Henry Van Dyke was Born November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and educated in theology at Brooklyn Polytechnic, Princeton, and Berlin. He worked as a minister, first in Newport, Rhode Island, from 1879 to 1883 and next in New York until 1899. His poems reveal a classical education as well as a common touch in matters of faith. He became Professor of English Literature at Princeton in 1900. During World War I he acted as American Minister to the Netherlands and then naval chaplain, for which he was awarded the Legion of Honour. He died April 10, 1933.

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