The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-11-24
For The KENosHA TELEGRAPH.
A visit TO Gen. FEarrisoEa's Grave.
BY THE CYPRESS BARD,

Morn Of the crimson Autumn, happy morn $500
retsrangey sad, the sun with gentler beams 40,
man unan won't is looking through the curdled clouds,
WINE not a leaf, or twig, rustlipg bough - &.
GlVes to the ear the music of the breeze;
me frost flowers live to deck the graves those pa
y hch have already fallen, trees have shed, fel
1her summer beauty, and their foliage
~ Fauilng mournfully beneath our feet; f s..
Ohoer the walnut and the hickory
rne laughing children gather eagerly S'9s '.@
me nuts which Autumn filings among the leaves.
me very AR seems speaking, as it clicks
IN every withered blade ''Idow too, must de ~
an, l am glad tits so, and this is why p. re
N ma py, and feel to-day this thought
my cream Ofdedtt is but 1ny dream 0fhone.n -,,
AnG, now no, stanG upon this steep, high mound,
amid the cedars, and the snow-drop where rs 10
Ihe dust OF the departed hero lies. ttq t.... A.
no mar bic block, tablet tells his name .'''' p
Dut mere, upon the summit, stands the tomb l5v9
"A Nhich 10 now enshrined the form, DER whom ID
"dt'On 9cept; On these same grassy cIodsN 01L
mas dropped full many patriotic tear, go 49, .
mere, thirty years ago. the good man stood
aug viewed his homestead Ger and DER again.
mhiie IN his soul he felt the endearins ties
1nat pound his heart around the hearts he loved
20 country calls him now, and he must go sill s
WIN glory laden and with laurels crowned. .Fl.
iet thls was not enough to satisfy
taankful nations swelling gratitude. +s-a
II poners him, in his declining years., -.sa g.. F.
4ts highest place and fits most honored seat,
GGu,heSlastle Hope, exalted for awhileT i9-sE EH-
only to Writhe in a killing grief !
Alas, Tor human expectations t-vain -t sts7 I'D
ana misunderstanding the heart to-day Iaf. Oh f
nlth nsttering prospects, till it feels secure,
anu counts its pleasures already enjoyed. .E cd
tomorrow comes the breaking of Despair,
lake deadly Simoons whitening all around
ana thus 1t blghted all Country's hopes, d -
1ears traught with great events ha swiftly Sped
ana what remains of the heroic form, '-
That passed mid cheers into the Capitol,
Is mixing with the silent, greedy earth.
stand ard gaze upon the lonely tombs 70 Et1--iG
Mhicn should be sacred, but neglected quite, E.tY
q Naught but poor, dilapidated vault
70 mold the relics OfdepG1fed JIDle.i
Oh' the Implying stream-ObiYion. Ere -s-. 3D..
6earlng our names into the misty Past,
On and still on-until we are forgot ts--.tt w s-f
Bring back the Peoples tr butte to this grave
u And bid them DER this desecrated ground ..
ere monument, worthy the one i7tat r. --.. .
Mhom, when he lived, thousands almost adored.
f- 10 one 10 care Tor this dear, sacred spot
or save 1t from the raTages oftime,- E'.'E n. 4 -
ana now, tits lett unmatched, perhaps unwept, ,.
save when stranger Games to drop a tear,
And on the fast decaying brick to scratch: - 5.,r
HIS OBSCURE name, that he who 1ext 4iiaH come
may knoWh 100 has been land loyed-and mourn'd.
what thrilling memories cluster round the sce,.e
Yonder, see the ruins of the old
Log cabin noted in the famous times
p mhef PotatscS were sung The chimpeys stand
Half buried in the thick grown weeds around -
with some old fire place where the chieftain sat
oitimes with all the happy group ms olDe .r'
Around him. Then that aCdS his pdradise: .- ..
rms as has FndE home. The twitterng birds
And aspen leaves moved by some signing wind
Or moonlight rpples the River sing - ....
His only requiem. Farewell farewell!
Rest thee in peace, most noble soul-rest thee;
Nor shall the tumult of the busy world
disturb thy quiet, unpretending tomb.
1et, ever and anon, some heart shall find .
tear to shed in halowed memory here.