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“Dutiful” and “Pious” did not pertain to the hopeful humorist. Tired by his law practice, John started writing poetry for The Knickerbocker, of which “The Rhyme of the Rail” is his very popular first writing. Even the well known Boston publishing house, Ticknor and Fields, got interested by his works. Although he had no credits for his first creation, it darted to ten republications and finally sold more than the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. John Godfrey Saxe I was a US poet popular for his reiteration of the Indian folk tale, The Blind Men and the Elephant, which presented the tale to Western spectators. He also stated: Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. John was born in Highgate, Vermont, at Saxe’s Mills, where his pilgrim grandfather, John Saxe or Johannes Sachse, a German settler and Loyalist to the Crown, constructed the place’s first gristmill in 1786. His parents were Peter Saxe, miller, judge and intervallic member of the Vermont General Assembly; and Elizabeth Jewett of Weybridge, Vermont. The poet was given his name for two of his father’s side uncles, John and Godfrey, who had deceased at a very early age before he was born. He grew up in a stern Methodist upbringing, John was first schooled in Wesleyan University which he exited after one year, and later went to Middlebury College, from which he completed his studies in 1839. After two years, he tied the knot with Sophia Newell Sollace, a sister of a Middlebury fellow student, with whom he had a son named John Theodore Saxe. He passed the Vermont bar examinations in 1843 and efforted to put up a venture with his obedient and devout elder brother, Charles Jewett Saxe. For a few years he carried out his legal profession very well in Franklin County. Then he came to be the state’s lawyer for Chittenden County.
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