New-York tribune., 1872-05-24
The sacredest that ever Death
Laid In the earth's dark DroaS''

Alike in pleasure anu III
And he contained their myriad hinus'
Mankind in heart ana Draih'
shakespearel what shapes are cOngrod on;G oH up
By that one word They come ana co.
More real shadows though they DC,
Than many man we kno"
Hamlet the Dane, unhappy Prince,
Who most enjoys when suffering most;
His soul Is haunted by ltseH,
There needs other Ghost!
The Thane whose murderous fancy secs
The dagger painted I'm the air .
The guilty King, who stands appalieu
When Banquo fills his chalr
Lear in the tempest, old and crazed,-
Blow windsi Spit fire, singe my white heau !
Or sadder. watching for the breath
OF dear COrdela, dead!
The much h-abused relentless Jew;
Grave Prospero, in his magic isle;
And she who captvated Anthony,
The serpent OF old Nue'
Imperial forms, heroic souls,
Greek ROman-masters OF the world;
Kings Queens. the soldier, scholar, priest;
The courtier, sleek and ouried:
He knew and drew all ranks Of men,
And did such life 10 them impart,
They grew not Old-inlmortal types,i
The lords Of life and ART.
Their sovereign he, as she was his
The awful mother OF her race,
VINO, hid from all her children's eyes,
Unyailed TO him her face;
spake to him until her speech was known,
Through him til man had learned II then
EnthrOned him in her heavenly house,
The most supreme OF men
John Brougham's muse contributes this walf Of euo-
gum
What shall his crown BET not the laurel leaf
That bloodb dbesprinked, decks the warriors head
Who crasps at glory as distinctions chief,
living monument to thousands dead;
Bequeathing q vast legacy Of grief,
Some pest incarnate fed with human life
Born OF ambition, or the lust of strife
In regal diadcm, shall we proclaim
Him monarchl That would crcumscrbe his WORTH
kincly coronet would only shame
The knglier Thought whose realm is the whole earth.
such petty yanities but mock his fame
Profane IT not, he is all crowns above!
Hero OF Peace, Evangelist of Love!
contributed poem, commemorative OF this American
tribute TO the great poet, reaches from MI Arthur
Mattbison by whom it priaely inscribed to
Edwin Booth:'
sHAKEsPEARE's STATUE: AN INVOCATION.
Actors bend low, and dod the willing cap
Poets your master spirit here sauel
STRIKE the full chords Musicians, in bis praise,
Whose words make music, their numbers roll!
APPROACH o ye who judge the actors art,
And lay your weapons at his coDquerng ieetl
Come y-whose eyes wep whose hearts heen moved,
Whose souls have thrilled his bands swept the Tyre
With benisons upon him glad the sir
And Echo bear the sounds to distant Avon
Vie each with each blend all in grand songi
But though with muutudineus voice SPEAK
Though not g among you all II mute,
Your tongues shall ne'er outsylable his worth,
Your hvmn Of praise o his blight never reach.
Our hearts with thee, Shakespeare, on this DAY
And make swift pilgrimage to Enganl's shOrei
In fancy kueel We at thy bslovei shrine
Invoke thy spirit to this Western land
And on thy sculptured semblGnce bid thee ga1el
in thy great name. this fair image made
It's form with thy great fame is glonhct
Bowered in fair woodland thon loy'ds. so well,
We place our monument to thee o B'di
Prom Nature look up Natures God,
Aud bid the broad world, grateful, join in thanks
To Him, III inspiring One, who gave Us Shakespeare
INCIDENTS.
At an early hour in the day Mr.. William Ros' Wallace
local writer whose name Is not unfamiliar made his
appearance at the Pavilion with large pacard, which
was delivered in charge Of the statue and
was by them affixed its base. This placard bore in
black letters on white ground, these extraordinary
lnes
Ola World. he Il not oaly thine
Our New World too has part,
As opuleni and a. divine.
In bis stupendou mind and heart
His Monuments every climel
All breasts Of nature his
SO Shakespeare, with Truths perfect chime,
Is n the Oureched bands Of time,
The mirror Of Co.'s universe.
In the course OF the dedicatory exercises Capt Mills OF
the Central Park Police, came forward and down
this inscription from the monument.
The arrangements of the day directed with taste
and skill by Mr. Theodore Moss The floral decorations
were directed by Mr. j. wrey Mould. The following per-
sons acted as ushers and doorkeepers: Ushers-Wil-
liam A. b. Hoagland, Frank c. Wllbrand. jr., Ernest
Head Washington H. Beaudlne, George Denton. John 3.
HolstOn observation-disclosures Barton, Joseph Flynn,
John Rose, Theodore johnson.