him, and remained at his side and in his service--separately or together-
-until the day of his death."

Abroad, as at home, Colonel Hay has been active in the service of his
country. In 1865 he went to Paris as Secretary of Legation, and after
remaining two years in that office he went as Charge-d'Affaires for the
United States to Vienna. After a year at Vienna, Colonel Hay went to
Madrid as Secretary of Legation under General Daniel Sickles. In 1870 he
returned to the United States, and was for the next five years an
editorial writer for the New York Tribune. During seven months, when
Whitelaw Reid was in Europe, Colonel Hay was editor in chief.

It was for The Tribune that Hay wrote "The Pike County Ballads," which
were first reprinted separately in 1871, and are placed first in the
collection of his poems. In the same year he published his "Castilian
Days," inspired by residence in Spain.

In 1876 Colonel Hay removed from New York to Cleveland, Ohio. He then
ceased to take part in the editing of The Tribune, but continued friendly
service as a writer. From 1879 to 1881 Colonel Hay served under
President Hayes as Assistant-Secretary of State in the Government of the
United States. In 1881 he was President of the International Sanitary
Congress at Washington. Since that time he has been active, with John G.
Nicolay, in the preparation and production of the full Memoir of Abraham
Lincoln, now completed, that will take high rank among the records of a
war which, in its issues, touched the future of the world, perhaps, more
nearly than any war since Waterloo, not even excepting the great struggle
which ended at Sedan.

That is the life of a man, here is its music.