Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1854-05-16
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MHEN VIZ IRE DEAD.

l. There will be some honest sorrow. a
few will be really sad rs are robcd for th0
grave. Fewer, probably, than we now suppose.
We are vain enough TO think our departure
will produce considerable sensation. But we
over estimate it. Out Of very small circle,
how soon shah we be forgotten. 4 single leaf
in boundless forest has fallen! That Is all.
The gay will laugh.
When thou nrt gone the solemn brood of care
plod on oua earth rs before viii! clIuse
His tavOriic phantom.
?. The world will 90 on without Us. We
may have thought 4 very important wheel Iii
the great machinery will be ungcnred when
are gone, But the world goes Gathering on as
if nothing had happened. If we fill llimportant
stations in society, If we have wondered
what would or could be done. If we were re-
moved; vet how soon others vail flI our sta
tons. The world can be bustiug active
world without u.s. 1t was 50 before we enter
ed it. 1t will be so when we arc gone.
3. When we are dead, affection may erect
monument. But the hand that sets tuP will
soon be as powerlcss ~ OURS, and fer the same
cause. How soon they that weep oyer us will
follow us. The monument itself will crumblc
and its dust will fall on the dust chat covers us.
If the marble or the granite long cmdurcs, yet
the ewes of affection will not endure to read
the craven letters. Men will give Il very hasty
rlace at the name of one they ncveT knew and
pass on, with not thought other sIdmGerer
below.
On my grassy gFAve
The men of future time will careless tread
And read m, name upon the Sculptured stone,
Norwfil the sound familiar TO theiceArs,
Recall my vanished memory
4, When we are dead, our Influence will
not be dead also. We leave cpitrets upon in
desir,ictible materials Our mAnaer Of life has
been writing them. We have stirred up
thouohts and awakened emotion The Won
derfuI machinery Of mind has fcltour presence.
We have pressed the stamp of cur character
into the warm wax otmoraI sensibJlitcS around
rs. Footsteps toward immortality have been
well Guided, or misdiretted by us. Our places
Of h,isiness, or social resort, may know us no
more but living. accountable beings. feel the
influence that survives orr personal departure
:. When we are dead the Kingdom of God
will not die. 1t did not depend upon us
for existence. And onward vii! it 60, when
we have ceased to live. Happy indeed, if it
had been the honor and JOY of cur }abofS to
have Dromoted it. Blessed it is to be remem-
bered as having loved Zion, as taking pleasure
in her stones, and faToring the dust thereof.
Sacred, consoling thought The Kingdom
Of Christ mores on, when we drop all our
earthly reiatlOuS 10 H. ''I4iSi ~ '''''-' 'A ~
will rise to fill our places brighter star may
rise for the one that has fallen, Stronger
hands than ours may come intothr ranks.
6. When we are dead, some viii think OF
MS Perhaps not a large circle: And what
will they think Our present course of life IS
furnished them with themes ofthought. Cold
moss and indifference to the Kingdom and Clio
rv of God-of what will our survivors think it
# marked orr characters. And IN sadness will
those who truly love us ponder i. And
thoughts how many, and how comfort
ipr. will rise; amid the pangs .f real sor-
row over departure, if we had shown forth the
nrises of him who called us to glory and to
virtue. Into Which of these channels are we
likely TO turn the thoughts of nen
The quotation from Barbe, introduced
bv Col. Benton in his recent speech on the
N.broska bill, has called forth tie following
epirram, which we find in the Washington
Star: .-,,,,-
when Benton to Burke for authority turns
His figures of speech TO determined
1o hoih the sublime and the beauttnt srurns,
To tastefully introduce rer7liR;
Trb;s proves what all ages of fogles h&yc Salu'
Tbcv!re ever repeating what runs IN fhe'r heaa!
The Sentinel thinks Col. Benton IS mistaken
N slpposing that Burke made the remark IN
the British House of Commons. 1t says, II
our memory of the story be right It was Ia
DIV Who made the observation to Burke wAo
tTere0pon made the following ePigFarl
IA 1aIy has told oae, and in her own house
1,t sb does not care for me three skips OF = lonsc
foroiyethe iegT creature for what shSl nas SAG
Ss6nfafS viii sDeak OF what rms IN ttttf heqd