People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — In Memoriam [ARTICLE]

In Memoriam

Died, at his home in Kankakee Township, King De Armond. The circle is broken—one seat Is forsaken.— One bud from the tree of our friendship is shaken — One heart from among us no longer shall thrill With the spirit of gladness, or darken with ill. Weepl—Lonely and lowly, are slumbering now The light of his glances, the pride of his brow. Weepl—Sadly and long shall we listen in vain To hearthesoft tones of his welcome again. Give our tears to the dead: For humanity’s claim From its silence and darkness is ever the same; The hope of that World whose existence is bliss May not stifle the tears of the mourners of this. For, Oh: if oue glance the freed spirit can throw On the scene of its troubled probation below Than the pride of the marble—the pomp of the dead— To that glance will be dearer the tears that we shed. t As a cloud of the sunset, slow melting in heaven, As a star that is lost when the daylight is given. As a glad dream of slumber, which wakens in bliss, He has passed to the world of the Ifoly from this. He has passed:—but oh sweet as the flowers that bloom * From lowly dwelling—the dust of his tomb — The charm of his virtues, as heaven’s own breath, Shall rise like an incense from darkness

and death.

— R. K.