Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes


No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.


Citations

Chapin, Edwin Hubbell. Living Words. Abel Tompkins, 1860, p. 263.

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • Born: December 29, 1814
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Clergyman

Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.