Gifts

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It is said that a man is provided with everything he needs, these are the precious gifts that God has bestowed upon. A man is provided with the gifts of life, air, marvels of the world, at times free food which a man finds in his own vicinity, emotions and the like. Thankful are we to be provided for such things, we are blessed in many ways than we could ever imagine.

James Thomson who penned using the fictitious name Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian era poet renowned mainly for the lengthy verse The City of Dreadful Night in 1874, an example of austere cynicism in a desensitized, selfish urban surroundings.

James was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, and, after his father underwent a stroke, he was taken to London where he was fostered in a children’s home, the Royal Caledonian Asylum on Chalk now known as Caledonian after the safe haven. Road nearby Holloway. He enunciated with a London intonation. He was as well educated at the Caledonian Asylum and the Royal Military Academy and served in Ireland, where in 1851, when he was 17 years old, he made friends with Charles Bradlaugh, who was 18 years old then, and was at that time outstanding as a freethinker, having released his first atheist pamphlet a year before.

Over a decade after, James resigned his post in the military and went to London, where he became an office clerk. He continued his communication with Charles, who was by now producing his own weekly National Reformer, a “publication for the working man”. For the remainder of 19 years of his life, beginning in 1863, James contributed tales, essays and poems to several publications, such as the National Reformer, which issued the solemn poem which is still his most popular piece.
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