The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-11-14
LAST WORDS.
From Health and Home.

However Psychologists may question
the Importance of the feeble utterances
Of the dying, it is certain that mankind
ia general finds deep significance In the
last words of those who are vanishing IL
to the unknown life.
He raves u said the physician, when
DIR. Adams, rector Of the high school OF
Edinburgh, was passing away but as we
catch the last words of the raving, our
own eyes are dimmed. 1T grows dark
boys" stretching forth his hand; you
may go" ''All my possessions tor a
moment of time !, moaned Queen Eliza
beth. Wesley, calmer, said, as he died,
the best Of all is, God isWlth Us. And
deaf Beethoven, whose soul had ever
been filed with harmony, exclaimed glad
ly at the last, L shall hear
''Is your mind at ease ?" Goldsmith
was asked by his physicians. No. it is
not" was the mournful reply, and he
spoke no more How different the part
ing words of DR.. William Hunter eff
| had strength to hold pen, would
write how easy and pleasant q thing it Is
to die !" Or the assurance Of President
Edwards, as his dying grasp loosened on
hard forms of dogma, Trust In God,
and you need not fear.
Byron said YEARLY, Il must sleep
now;" and Goethe, turning to his wife,
called for Light, more light -
DIR. johnson died in tumult Of I'M
easiness and dread Cowper sank to rest
as peacefully as child. / am taking
fearful leap in the dark - cried Hobbies,
the deist; and 'Now, Lord, Lord, re-
ceive my SOUL" whispered Herbert on
his last sweet day. -
Politeness was no longer ruling pas
sion, but chrism, when Chesterfield in
dying said, Give Dayrolles chain -
and surely something was forgiven Of
Charles the Second, when he babe fare
we'll to earth pomp and wlckedness, In
Don't let poor Nellie starve.
Haller's last words were, feeling his
own pulse, THE artery ceases to beat.
Petrarch died suddenly and silently in his
library, his hand upon a book; and Sir
Isaac Newton was winding his watch
when he was ushered into the life that
hath no end.
Talma, the great actor, exclaimed pitt
fully as he went, 1.-The worst of all is, [
cannot see;;' and John Locke murmured,
20 the depth of the riches, of the good
ness and knowledge of God /" The dy-
ing admonition of the learned Grotius to
his race was, 'Be serious Scaron,
the French wit, said family to his weep
ing friends, "Ah! mes enfans, you can
not cry as much for me as.I have made
you laugh in my time; - and Lord Thur
low in reckless wonder exclaimed 4
shot, if | don't believe m dying ~
When poor Robert Burns gasped with
his last breath, Don't let the awkard
sQad fire over me y he did not allude to
his commentators and critics, yet what
significance should the words have for
theml And how little Annie BoIeyn
thought, when awaiting the executioner,
she clasped her fair throat, that st is
but small. very small, would link her
forever to the heart of Christendom
Yes, we cannot doubt that many of the
most eloquent sermons mankind has ever
listened to have fallen from dying lips.
Caesars gfieved And thou, Brutus!'
John Quincy Adams This is the last
of EARTH" Mirabeau's frantic cry for
Music after his life of discord. George
Washington 1T is welr'-do they not
grow richer in meaning every day? And
is it not still blessed to remember the last
moments of Melanc.hon, the friend of
Luther? DO you want anything ?"
asked his loved one eagerly. Nothing
but heaven he answered gently, and
went smiling on his way.