As Nathan's mother died nine years before he
did, we understand the full meaning of the line in
Judge Finch's poem,

_____"The sad of Earth, the glad of Heaven,"_____

written many years later in honoring Nathan's
splendid sacrifice. The poem to which the line
belongs, read more than sixty years ago on the one-hundredth
anniversary of the Linonian Society,
an organization of Yale College of which Nathan
Hale had been an early and an active member,
had much influence in rousing first Yale men, and
then other patriotic Americans, to recognize Nathan
Ha'e as one of America's bravest martyrs.

Mrs. Hale died in 1767. About two years
later Deacon Hale married again, bringing to his
home this time a widow, Mrs. Abigail Adams, of
Canterbury, who must have been well fitted to
take her place as the new head of the family. No
ignoble mother could rear such children as she
had reared, and Deacon Hale's second choice of a
wife proved a wise and happy one. Providence
appears to have smiled upon him when he opened his
doors and invited Mrs. Adams and her children
to share his home, and even the affection of some
of his sons. It is said that two of Deacon Hale's
sons fell in love with her youngest daughter, Alice

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