Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-06-17

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nee Of the People Of England.
0 mother State the winds Of March
Blew chill oer Auburn's Field Of God,
Where, slow beneath a leaden arch
OF sky thy mourning children trod.
And now, with all thy woods In leaf,
Thy hols in flower, beside thy dead
Thou sittest ia thy robes Of grief,
Rachel yet uncomfortedl
And once again the organ swolls,
Once more the Tag is halfway hung,
And yet again the mOurnful bells
In all thy steeple-towers are rung.
And |, obedlent 10 thy will,
Have come a simple wreath 70 lay
Suporfuous, on a grave that still
IL sweet with all the flowers Of May.
take, with awe, the task assigned
II may he that my friend might miss,
In his new sphere Of heart and mind,
Some token from my hand In this.
By many a tender memory moved,
Along the past my thought send
The record OF the cause he loved
Is the best record Of its friend.
What hath been said, / can but say;
All know the work that brave man dill
For he was open as the day,
And nothing Of himself he hid.
No trumpet sounded in his ear,
lie saw not sinais cloud and dame,
But never yet TO Hebrew seer
clearer voice Of duty came.
God said Break thou these yokes undo
These heavy burdens. | ordain
work 10 last thy whole life through,
A ministry Of strife and pain.
Forego thy dreams of lettered ease,
Put thou the scholars promise by,
The rights Of man are more than these
lie heard and answered " Here am %
He set his face against the blast,
Ills feet against the ninty shard,
Till the hard service grew, at last,
Its own exceeding great reward.
The fixed star Of his faith, through all
Loss, doubt and peril, shone the same,
As, through a night Of Storm some tall,
Strong lighthouse lifts Its steady flame.
Beyond the dust and smoke ho saw
The sheaves Of freedoms large increase,
The holy fanes Of equal law,
The New jerusalem Of peace.
No wall was in his voioe,--none heard
When treason's storm-elond blaekest grew
The weakness of doubtful word,
Ills duty, and the end, he knew.
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When once the hostile ensigns fell,
lie stretched out hands Of generous care
To lin the foe he fought SO well.
For there was nothing base or small
Or craven in his souls broad plant
F0rgving all things personal,
lie hated only wrong to man.
The old traditions OF his State,
The memories Of her great and good,
Took from his life fresher date,
And Ia himself embodied stood.
How folt the greed OF gold and place,
The venal crew that schemod and planned,
The fine scorn Of that naughty face,
The spurning OF that brieoloss hand
II than Rome's tribunes statelicr
He wore his senatorial robe,
His LOFTY port was all for her,
The one dear spot on all the globe.
Ito the masters plea he gave
The vast contempt his manhood felt,
lie saw brother In the slave
With man as equal man he dealt.
Proud was he If his presence kept
Us grandeur whereso er he trod,
A " from Plutarch's gallery stepped
The hero and tho demi-god
None failed, at least, 10 reach his ear,
Nor want nor woe appealed In ysinJ
The hOmesick soldier knew his cheer,
Aud blessed him from his ward Of pain.
safely his dearest friends may own
The slight defects he never hid,
The surface bemish In the stone
OF the tall stately pyramid.
Suffice 1t that he never brought
His conscience 10 the public mart
But lived himself the truth he taught,
Mhlte-souled, cleenhanded, pure Of hoart.
What II he felt the natural pride
OF power In noble uso, too true
With thin humlllties 10 hide
Tho work he did, the lore he knew
Was ho not Just Was any wronged
by that assured, self-estlmatef
He took but what 10 him belonged,
unenyious Of another's state.
Well might he heed the words he spake,
And scan With care the written page
Through which ho still shall warm and wake
The hearts OF men from age TO age.
All Who shall blame him now because
lie solaced thus his hours o. painl
Should not the 0erworn thresher pause,
And hold " light his golden grain