The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-02-14
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Consumption has pity for blue eyes and golden hair
When her first reclining, her lips moved in
And the setting shining her loosened golden
When our kindly glances met her. deadly brilliant was
And she said that she was bettor while we knew that
she must die"
You sentimental individuals, who gloat over
Storms focusing spirit flying up to Heavens S;ns
1.-THE recording angel" charitably wipes out
with a sympathetic tear, be good enough to
tell what you think of the following
stanza:
AT length tie harp is broken and the spirit in its
As the last decree is spoken its e1ulting
Descending vitly from the skies her guardian angel
struck Gods lsh.ntns from her eyes, and bore Him
Nor is the termination less beautiful. Here
it is:
Before the had risen, through the lark's loved
young left its prison. indebted by sin
beside the couch in tears where pale and calm
And. though i've gazed death for blush not
eheeked effort. PHYS sghs and left the matron
To close the curtains her eyes and bind golden
His lines on "Ben Heder" (the Hill of
Howtb) are certainly very pretty, bat deeply
| impregnated with melancholy feeling, which
possessed him in his later times. We give
| few of the verses:
For we'll remember the festa days this shore that
i seemed,
The friends trusted. the dreams dreamed. hopes
high a. the clouds above ys-s ro,., ,.,.n..
Of Gt land
When first trod on this breezy sod to me it was holy
Forg MUS and beanty-rays of God-hle a swarm of
Well, we'll have learned rude lessons since then in
skeleton grins through all
No more. more, the dreary shore, hear the
With the early dead in my lonely bed-you shall not
fade nsns to The homo of clay with not one dream
MY wreathess brow in the dust bow my harp and
would might rest Thsn eou departs where
the Irish the purple quartz droops the
Where the stalls CLEAN in the about like virtue
And the victor sea with thunder shout through the
breach in the rockwell rolls."
Poor fellow! such wish was fruitless like
many another gifted son of that unfortunate
island that produced him, he was destined to
fill an exiles grave, far from the sacred soil he
so dearly loved. Not unhonored, however, in
that hospitabe land could the turf above such
an Irishman remain. Some of his countrymen,
serving in a New Hampshire regiment, finding
themselves pear the grave of Williams only
few mont tbs after his death, had the spot en-
closed, and beautiful slab of Carrara marble
erected over his ashes. The monument bears
the following inscription:
Sacred
to the Memory of
the irish Patriot and Poet Poet,
This stone vas erected by his oountrymen
sn sS,ns New Hs%p.Sira Hoantsers
for
exalted f SevSti i, .. to the cause of
Such an incident as a band of poor war-worn
exiles paying their homage to departed coun-
tryman, and that country man political enemy
, (for Williams was an ardent Confederate) was
one that could hardly fail to be recorded in
verse and So about the time of the occurrence
the GLOWING lines, from the able pen of Thos.
Darcy MCGEE, appeared in New York paper:
God bess brave! the brave alone worthy to
soldiers hand the stone. another traced
Another set the guardian rail
Above thy minstrel, 1nnsfal.
A thousand years ago-oh, then, had such a harp in
His can i met the eyes of men, by every passing
slsss the br.y e. not yet the race
True have ye writ ye and leal and if the lines
Until the Arohanseis trumpet peal should wake the
Broad on his bFsa he still might wear
The praises ye have planted there.
told to old and young at home abroad at fire.
Let it be spoken, written sung, let it be pictured,
Their eziled poets ransomed mound
how lowly knelt and humby prayed the on-hearted
Above the monument they made for him who sung for
father land,
A scene Of scenes-where glory . shed
Both the living and the dead.
Sing on Je gfed-never yet has such spirit sung in
vain
No change teach to forget the burden of that
deathless strain,
Be true, like him. and to your graves
Time yet will lead his youthful braves"
We take leave of our subject with the ear
nest hope that among the rising generation of
Irisbmen there may be many imitators of Dali
ton Williams, who, though they may not equal
him in works of the intellect, Qor few are they
to whom Heaven grants such powers) may at
least follow the noble example he has set them
of fidelity to the sacred cause of their coun-
try's freedom.
CIVIL MARRIAGE IN RUssIA.-Much diff
ficulty has been experienced in framing
the new Bill, from the fact that the States
composing the Confederation have been
accustomed to enjoy their own laws. For
Catholics, for Pedestrians, for Jews, for
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