Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-07-02

land, will seek, with emotions OF veneratiop
AMI awe, the r, sting place Of the GOd-hke
Martyr, Sidney johnson, where be sleeps,
at the capital of the great Cur State OF
Texas, aud there bow and Join the melan-
oholy dirge Of the great blue Gulf, as or
heev ng bosom lifts ITSELF as IL to behold the
death response of the sleeping Great.
And he will repair thence to Lexington,
in the heart Of Virg mia, and there gaze on
the tomb Of tho "Arch Ange" # battle
StOnewall Jackson, as his honored ashes
sleep in the bosom Uf his mother State for
he persisted. Aud to whose uudyiug fame
the broad battle scared Valley Of Virginia
l., and will remain, an eternal memorial.
Thence he will look abroad Oh the sleeping
thousands Of the heroic dead, aud eXslIim
from his heart
GLOW sleep the brave who sink to rest,
BY all their country's wishes bicst."
Many Of them unknown, unattended, save
by the spirit'iurm of Liberty who stapds a
Ni"bs over the sleeping dust her marty cd
children. II Is uTvmBrkublo feet that q
large part OF the great City &c Paris is
erected over an immense subterraninus
cayern-ninety feet b ath the streets Ct the
city. This immense excavation was made
in qusfrying stonss for tie erection of their
pito'. The city above is supported by
IN issivc arcbways. This cavern constitutes
the celebrated Cltacombs o. Paris, and
into it the French nation gathered h relic
Of ten long generations OF her dead. IL Is
cmphaticaly a city of the dead of CARR
o =, galltri,s 5, streets, avenues, halls, rooms
an / rotunlas where ia death eight times
the number, Of the living tide, that roll
over them in that great and pUpulOus city.
Here, tCo, have been gathered the homes,
pf M of IN herpaa nj Of rlp rr..Yn
the plains Of The Mont Gage We arc in
formed that this DARK abode OF the dead is
Illuminated constantly with wax tIperS,
Ivy the light of which you descend, from the
butte Of one of most populous cities on
the Globe, ninety feet, world whose awful
sil,nce is only broken by the solitary tread
Of the policeman, who keeps as strict watch
over his dead as over the living above. The
relics Of thous ,nds Of oar glorious band of
patriots aud heroes still lie scatt' rcd in the
wilderness and amongst strangers, where
no friendly eye watches tb,ir eternal stun
Der no lone Waterman, as in the case Of
the Catacoml Of Paris, to guard their lone
burial ground, but the bright sentiGels OF
the bending sky above, keep their nightly
vgils over the slumbcrs Of the heroic dead
Aud the glorious orb Of night sheds bro I'd
and tender q )od Of light through tie Tick
remains are scattered emo line Is carved,
no st ms is raised, but they sleep alone in
their glory"
Though their manly spirits have "crosScd
over the river aud rest under the shade -
though thew have passed TO "that undi, COW
cred country from whose bourne no traveller
returns," they have an abode, 10 the poetic
conception of all generations of men
though their encampments are no longer
seen on the battlefield, and their homes
are desolate, snd their country valley OF
weeping, they have "pitched their bright
tents on fame's eternal camping g'ound ~
"Bring flowers fresh flowers DER their graves to
spread,
Bring crowns for the brow Of our noble dead.
For this, through Its leaves, does the white rose
burt,
For this, IN the woods, is the violet nurscd
Though they smile Ia vain for what once was ours
They are loves best of'rng, bring flowers, frosl
lowcrs."
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