Robert Livingston (1746-1813) : Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston (November 27, 1746 - February 26, 1813), of New York, was a delegate to the New York state constitutional convention and a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence, though he was recalled by his state before he could sign it. He was a candidate for governor of New York in 1798, was U.S. Minister to France from 1801 - 1804, and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.Livingston County, Kentucky, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, and Livingston County, New York are named for him.
I might expect him, every instant, here?
And yet how many instants have rolled by! -
To the next moment only I'm alive. -
Had brought him in.
RECHA.
And when this moment comes,
Shall be fulfilled, what then? what then?
DAYA.
What then?
Will have its turn, and happen.
RECHA.
'Stead of this,
Which now without some ruling wish of wishes
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The very thing that makes thee form this wish
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Which years and distance have not yet effaced,
See, feel, and hold, of mine.
DAYA.
'Tis vain to struggle -
Is he the destined saviour, by whose arm
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RECHA.
Daya,
Indeed thou hast some strange unseemly notions.
Belonging to a man--needing another
FOR which among the scattered clods of earth
ON which we were produced. If Nathan heard thee -
Hast ever sought to paint my happiness
What has he done to thee that thus, among
Pure in my soul, thou ever must be seeking
He wills not of these pranking gaudy blossoms
I feel as if they had a sour-sweet odour,
Thy head is wont to bear it. I don't blame
Mine it behoves not. Latterly thy angel
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DAYA.
As if here only wisdom were at home -
When was I not all ear, if thou beganst
Have I not freely on their deeds bestowed
The tribute of my tears? Their faith indeed
To me: yet, therefore, have I only learnt
That our devotion to the God of all
My father has so often told us so -
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