Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1900 — In Memory of Leo Miller. [ARTICLE]

In Memory of Leo Miller.

The following beautiful little poem was written to commemorate the memory of Leo Miller, that bright and promising youth whose sad and tragical death, in Chioago about two years ago, is still fresh in the memories of our readers. It was written by Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, of Pacific Beach, California; a poet of national reputation, and especially well known as the author of that very dramatic poem “Curfew Shall not Ring Tonight.” She is a cousin of Mis. W. J. Miller, Leo’s sadly afflicted mother, and wrote the poem for her consolation, immediately upon receiving the news of Leo’s death. The following is the poem. AT THE FOOT OF TH E CROSS. I come to you, dear, through the distance. To mourn with you over your loss; As you sit, like the mother of Jesus, And weep at the foot of the cross.

The cross where earth’s sorrowing moth ess. Heart-broken, bow down ’neath the rod, That once bruised the true heart of Mary The blessed mother of God. Take comfort, sad heart, in the knowledge. That death Is only the door ; And Leo has passed through its portal. One little day's Journey before. Ere care seamed his brow with Its farrows. Or silvered bis bonny, brown hair. In the Joy of hU unsullied manhood. Lay this halm on your heart of deapalr, • £ • I For, oh, there are sorrowing mothers. Who have no balm for their loss. Who sit not with Mary the Blessed. To weep at the foot of the cross. Boss Hart wick Thorp*;, *