Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-03

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Still to the past my song must turn,
As when, with many tears,
Ist09d among .bs ,bs STifsaiHs aeds 2sars Snow ILL.,
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I have grown older, but the same
Old throb is in my heart,
That faster beat when beheld, in
The glorious years depart. W. Ha'4
And now this humble strain must tell
loved them all as fondly as
If they had been my own.
And still the loved will fall and fade, =
And still affection weep Ha4 lia
To see each dear and faded one b44ta a.
Float out upon the deep, ..t,,v aatlsB
Farewell to theml but where they go z
Nor you, nor can say; gniissm
But there no stars are ever seen;
And there, there breaks no day.
Their dread abode no eye hath seen; uSe
Their silence ne'er is riven
By any voice that ever spoke
Aloud from earth or heaven.
There's peace within these awful depths NJ
BytTime's m. loud discords, nor alarms, tAi
Nor by Eternity.
But must change my note the year
with war war and and pestiience, and death,
And sacrifice Of life. ~ t"N'~
The hero, crowned with glory's wreath,
Ere yet the Winter came, tntHIIf
Passed out upon the swollen tlde,
And left us but his name.
Ho was the chief of men, and stood Ola
The noblest and the best
There was no canker on his fame,
No guile within his breast,
A hundred fields attest his strength, sz-
The prowess of his sword
The honor of a nation might
Repose upon his word. g.F,..tf.f
He was as gentle as child,
Yet brave as man can be
| The noblest model Of his race
Was ROBERT EDWARD LEE.
His praise shall be the Peoples love,
Nor shall the ages mar tI
| The lustre of the name that shines IN
Their morn and evening star
That noble countenance is now
In placid slumber cast, {.
Bnt in the Peoples hearts will be -
Remembered to the last. o. r-
An Empire totters to the dust,
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| oberrt,I, with direful carnage, 10 at'V"
| A foreign trampler yields.
Firm in the Prussian grasp she lies, "a
THE Empire once SO proud,
/ And holds a royal prisoner, -
The tenant Of st. Cloud. oi
Two mighty armies melt away ANt
| All slippery is the land %
/ Where the fierce tempest swept along 8 l-
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The worlds unequaled capital. aaaa'l at
The center Of all taste. e..ls, a. aiFod 90
on heaven shall this fair city be o.. rr
Remorselessly laid wastef a.. ...t ~
Vet from the ashes that remain, sasgs ed
| new France may arise, -. a.
WITH giant strength within her limbs
And freedom in her eyes
our own loyed land though sore opprest,
n,r thouRhts ara still on thee
shall We = nation be of slsyesf
or shall we yet be freef
o.. fathers bled for freedom oneeir-
Their sons thsir faith received,
And in the virtue Of cur race tsrrrrsaf .
IReligiously believed
The time win come when from tpelr fsaN
The robbers shall be hurled,
VPhaSd To wander Ger the world. -.
Tbou ruined year, farewell ny race o.
4 was marked with blood ana teaIsi i..N
| IL tbou hast foiled our hopes, stlli thou
| Hast conquered all our Tears
To dark oblivion thou hast borne Az II I
The victim and the dart, .MrU "a
| And piucked the living arrow from
The dead and witheFed heart j
The dreams thou bad 81 rs dream, when hTs'
Thy mornir- star up-r0ee,
Were ashes when thy evening staf
Went down upon thy close.
And now isborn 10 earth and time
| Another such as thou;
| The Young shall hutter in its beam,
The agnd ones shall bow.
But when the deyy dawn appears,
Rsaaty RsSlt- shan greet thee from the vals,
| And music from the hill.
A thousand harps shall sing thy praise.
And ere thy life be spent
4 Tt hall be sounded o'er the earth
On every Instrument.
God help thee TO a reign Of peace
Il A rairn that al may bless
| yyhiie wandering through the labynnths
0f this worlds wilderness.
Farewell The Oldl God bless the NeWi
And now my song must end;
1 Nav those who've listened 20 my strain
! Ne'er want a faithful friend.