Washington telegraph., 1856-11-19
"It is the Last of Earth"

death until the shadow falls across then
own path, hiding forever from their eye:
the traces of the loved ones whose living
smiles were the sunlight of their exist
cnce, Death is the great antagonist oi
life, and the cold thought of the tomb is
the skeleton of all feasts. We do not
want to pass through the dark valley, al
though its passage may lead TO Paradise
and, with Charles Lamb, we do not want
to lie down in the muddy grave, even
with Kings and princes for our bed fel
lows But the fiat of nature is inexora.
bic. There is no appeal or relief from
the great law which dooms us to dust
We flourish and fade as the leaves of the
forest and the flower that blooms and
withers in day, has not frazier hold on
life than the mightiest monarch that ever
shook the earth with his footsteps. Gen
erations of men appear and vanish as the
grass, and the countless multitude that
throngs the world to-day, will tomorrow
disappear as the footprints on the sand
shore.
But we shall meet again The dead
only sleep for the resurrection of immor-
tality. In the beautiful drama of Ion,
the instinct of immortality so eloquentli
uttered by the death-devoted Greek. finds
deep response in every thoughtful soul
When about to yield up his young exist
ence as sacrifice to fate, his beloved
Clemanthe asks, ''if they shall not meet
again. to which replies:
Il have asked that dreadful question of
the hills that look ,ternal of the flowing
streams that lucid flow forever of the stars,
among whose fields of azure nay raised
spirit hath walked In glory-and all were
dumb. Bnt while | gaze upon thy living
face, | feel there's something in thy love
that mantles through its beauty that can
not wholly perish. We shall meet again,
Clemanthe p "Our mother only sleeps;
and she who rests beside her is not gone
forever! Thank God who gave them the
victory through the Lord Jesus Christ
The earth is filed with ''learned dust. -
GreatnC IS and gentleness sleep together.
The cherub-faced babe and the infirm old
man go down side by side. All of us
have friends and kindred gone to the
grave.
Of men that does not attach to them while
living. They often give a clue to the
whole history of the mau. They still of
tener give significant intimation as to
the state in which the departed expired.
We cxcerp below the last words of few
of the great ones of the world. There Is
profit in pondering them:
e h.,
Il must sleep now. Byron.
at matters little how the dead lieth. .
Sir Walter Raleigh. .
kiss me, Hardy" Lord Nelson
'.Dou't give up the Lawrence
I'm shot if don't believe I'm dying
Charles Thurlow.
lis this your fidelity ?''-Nero
CLASP my hands, my dear friend,
die '-Alferi
Give Dayrocles chair. Lord Ches-
terfeld
God preserve the Emperor. Hay
den.
The artery ceases to beat Halter
'.i4et the light enter. Goethe.
''All my possessions for moment OF
time. Queen Elizabeth.
s.What is there no bribing death p
Cardinal Beaufort.
81 loved God, my father and liberty. -
Madame &c Stael.
'.Be serious. .''-Grotius.
'Into thy hands, o Lord ''-Tasso.
at is small, very small indeed, (clasp-
ing her neck)-Anne Boleyn.
70 g.,
my coming down, let me shift for myseli
descending the scaffold) Sir Thomas
Moore.
''Don't let that awkward squad fire over
my grave. R Burns.
II feel as if l were myself again. y
Walter Scott
| resign myself to God, and my daugh-
ter to my country Jefferson.
at is well. "-Washington.
at is the last of eerth l am content" 3"
Adams. -..
There is not drop of blood in my veins.
Frederic Y.
"A dying can do nothing easy"
Franklin. -4...r- .
''Let not poor Nelly starye. Charles
= .
"Refresh me with a great thought. y
Hervey.
''I Efeel the daisies growing over me. -
Keats. 5-u'r-sralai 1t io
"Let me die to the sounds of delicious
music Mirabeau
Daniel Webster uttered the words. 81
still live" -s.--. ---.--r
At Ballinrobe, in Galway, Ireland the
wifi of q farmer named Magrath left hel
two little children while she went to bring
a kettle of hot water to scald the churr
she was about to use for making butter
The eldest child meantime forced the bah,
into the churn, and the mother unwitting
ly scalded it to death. Rendered frantic
by the discovery, she thew stool at the
other child, which killed it, and ther
drowned herself.
There is vast deal of philosophy il