Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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W. de M. Hooper then read the following beautiful original eulogistic poem : Anil lie, our hope that was. out saint that is, Has gone from ns. He takes liis honored place Beside our other martyr, gone before, o. noble heart! O, upright, earnest soul! Was earth too gross to bear thy angel tread, And heaven so chary of her brightest light. I'liat thou eouldst not be spared a little while To guide our feet and point us to the skies? A King is dead ! No petty despot he. Crowned with base, drossy gold and earthy gems; But competed with a People’s trust, Unthroned upon a Nation's honest hrvo, Justice his scepter, Rioht his sword of State, Millions of freedom-loving lie arts his guard, A jieople’s voice Ins only right divine ; He reigned a veritable king indeed ! O, stricken ones ! in this, your direst hour— To her, who, like Cornelia of old. so country and to Truth her jewels gave ; To her, who, like the noble Spartan wife. Sent forth iier lord to death with loving smile ; To those who mourn a father’s priceless life— We send a Nation’s love and sympathy. For loss of Son, of Husband, Father, Friend ! We feel, like you, the darkness of this hour Which robs us of a father’s watchful care ; We feel, with you, the irreparable loss, And prav for faith and trust to comprehend Why heaven hath dealt this blow and strive to know That "God is good, and doeth all things well,” And that this cruel stroke may yet become A genu of blessing to our wounded land. The bright sun rises, shedding light and warmth, And dissipates the bleak, damp chills of night, Enriching with its life-inspiring beams The flowers that droop and close ’neath night’s dull gloom. And gives new life and vigor to I lie earth ; Then, setting, casts new warmth and heavenly glow On clouds so thick and shadowy before, Predicting for the morrow brighter skies. So lie. our rising Sun. shed light and warmth On this our country’s face, and thawed the ice Of local strife and party difference, Blending the North and South, the East and West In one harmonious family of love, And teaching us to know the sacred truth That our young Nation’s life ilependetn not On Party, but on Union, Truth and Right. So in Ids setting, more than in his rise, The somber clouds of National debate Are glorified and blended by thy work Of itoing honor to Ids memory. A sacred bond of common svmiwthy Makes brothers of us all, and North and South Are closer knit titan ever by the tie Of one great nat’o lal catastrophe. His day was ail too short, but never yet lias grander work hear crowded into one. In every walk of life, or low or high ; In earnest youth, in noble manhood’s strength ; In battle’s front, m legislative hall: In home, in camp, hi church, in field, in State ; As Student, Teacher. Soldier, Senator, In word or act he proved a prince of men. And now lie resteth from his work ; but tln tc, In his new home above, he still looks oown On tills, the Nation that lie loved so well, And hears ascend from fifty million tongues The prayers and blessings of a people's love, Mingling tliree name above all others blest, Honored and loved and reverenced—the names Of Washington, and Lincoln, and his own. Dirge— “ Rest, Spirit, Rest”— by the Choir. After which the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. B. F. Ferguson.