Famous Single Poems
which present themselves at the entrance of the study of Hebrew."
In 1818, Dr. Moore presented to the newly organized General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church the tract of land between Ninth and Tenth avenues and Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, with the water-right on the Hudson belonging to it, on the sole condition that the seminary buildings be erected there—a truly magnificent gift which few millionaires could duplicate to-day. In 1821, he accepted the appointment of "Professor of Biblical Learning" in the seminary, a designation which was afterwards altered to that of "Oriental and Greek Literature." He resigned this position in 1850, was appointed Professor Emeritus, and passed the remainder of his life placidly either at Chelsea Farm or at a summer place at Newport, where he died July 10, 1863.
He was buried in the Trinity Church cemetery at One hundred and fifty-third street and Amsterdam avenue, and around his grave on every Christmas eve the children from the Chapel of the Intercession near by gather to sing hymns and to recite the poem which has made St. Nicholas a real person for so many generations of young folks.
Dr. Moore's book of poems (Poems by Clement C. Moore, LL.D., New York, Bartlett & Welford, 1844), begins with a preface
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