New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-25

Nor doomed to tr.ad the "a OF things IA ;: ne;e
we've:
Our sense, refined with v,t 1e Of the spot
Across he mists of L. the's sleepy It .ean
Recalls him, IL sole chief without blot
No more pallid image and a dream.
But as he wet W II men decorously suprene
Our grosser minds ne ed this terre,t'a hint
To raIs+ those buried days from tolnbS OF p;ini;
Here 81 bod he p" soft We repeat.
And l., the stat ne shIired and still
In that gray minister front we call thu Past,
Feels in it's frozen veins our pulses thrill.
Brea thts living air and moCks at Deaths deceit
At WARNS. II silrs, comes down 10 MS at last,
Its features human II familiar Light,
A man, beyo d No HE tJr iau g art to kill,
Or scuptols 10 etace with pa tient ehisel. blight.
Sure the dumb earth In tn memory nor for naug
Was fancy given. on whose enchanted loom
Present and Pas cOmmingle tru;t and bloom
OF one fair bOuga. ins- parAbly. ought
Into the seamls So tpestry of thought.
So charmed. with undeluhed eye We see
In hstcrys ftagmentsry Ale
Bright clews of cOLt 'nuity.
Learn that high natures over Time preT.ii,
And feel ourselves d link IN thft entail
That binds I'll age past with all thar are &c De.
Beneath our consecrat d e.a
centlry ago he stood,
Framed vaguely for that old fight in the GOOD
Which red!y loaned round him but could MOI owe
whem
The life foreioomed to weld on. rough, hew
From colleges. where cow the gown
To arms had yielded. from the town
Our rude SELF sum fN0Ee0 IaNlts EDckSn TO see
The new come chiefs and Wonder which WAS he.
No need to question long; cl se-Epped and tai
Long trained in murder breeding for ests lone
To bride hers camors and his own.
Firmly erect, Re tow.,ed above them all,
The incarnats discipline that was to fee
With iron curb tt armed democracy
motley rout was that which came TO stare.
In raiment tanned by ye.rs Of eun and storm,
OF every shape that not uniform.
Dotted witt rePimen'als he e and there;
An 8rmv all of captains, used 10 pray
And stiff III fight. but serious drilps despair, .
Skilled to dehat their orders not obey
DeacOns were there seectmen men OF note
In halftamed ham!eLs amDushed round will
Ready to 81 tile Freewill BY > vote.
But largely liberal Id its private moods;
Prompt to assert oy mansere, voice or psn,
Or ruder arms their rights As Engsbme1
Nor much fastlGious as to how and when:
Yet seasoned stuff and fitt-st 20 create
A thoughts stand army or lasting State:
Naughty they said he was at first, severe.
But owned, AS all men own Inc steady houd
Upon the bridls. patient to command.
Priced, as ALI prize, the justice pure from fear,
and learned to homer ti.t then love him then re
Such power there is in Gear eyed .elfrsstraint
And purpose clean As light from every selfish saint
Musing beneath the legendary tree.
The Years betwee FIJI of; seem to ace
The sun fecks shaken in the AJiiIed foliage
Dapple with gold hs sober buff and blue
Aud weave prophe tic aureoles round the head
That shines our beacon now nor darkers Nth ne
dead.
o man Of silent mood,
A stranger among ct rangers then
Now art thou since renO whed Il e Great, the Good,
Familiar as the day in all he homes of men!
The winged years, thst wnnOw praise and blame,
Blow many pames out they but fan to flame
The self.renewing spendurs OF thy fame.
How many subtle.t influences unite
With spiritual torch OF Joy or pain.
Invisible air and soft 40 light,
To body forth that image OF the brain
We call our coul try, visionary shape
Loved more than woman, fuller of fire than wine
hose charm can none define,
Nor any, though he flee it, can escape.
All parti-co ored threads the weaver, Time.
Sets in his web. now trivial, now sublime.
All memories, all forebodings hopes and fears,
Mountain and riytr, forest. prairie. sea-
hill, rock, a homestead. field or tree
The casual gleanings OF unreckoned years.
Take goddess shape at ,st ard there Is She
ga at our birth new as tae sprinsins hours
Shrine OF our wea knees, Jltress of our powers,
COnsOler, kinder. peeles mid her peers,
force that meath our conscious being stirs
\ life to give our permanence when We
Are borne to mir gle our poor earth with here.
And all this glowing world goes with on our
biers
You. who hold dear this sell conceived IDEAL
Whose faith and VOL ks alone can make it real
SIing az your faiIest gifts to deck her SHRINE
Who hits our lives away from Thine and Mine
And feeds them at the core with manhood more
divine;
When all have done their utm most surely he
Hath given the best who gives a character
Erect and constant, when nor any shock
OF flowing or of ebbing fstes. can stir
From its deep bases in the living rock
OF ancient manhoOds sweet security:
And this he gave. serenely Ear from pride
As baseness. born with pros porous stars siliaS
Fart OF what nobler seed shall u QUE Ions abide.
No bend of men so strong as common pride
IN bames sub lined by deeds that have not died;
These are their arsenais these the eKhsus,lsss
mines
That give a nc in
These are the stuff whereof such dreams are
made
As make heroic men; time surely he
still holds i'll place ne massy blocks he laid
'Seat h our rev frame enforcing sabelly
The self-restraint that makes and keeps . people
Tree
OBJ. for drop OF that terse Romans ink
Who gave Agrcola dat eless length Of days.
To celebrate hum fifty, neither swerye
To phrase unkemI I, nor pass secretion . brink
With him 80 statue like in sad reserve
30 dliiident to claim, so forward to deserve
Nor need sbun due influence OF his .me
Who, MOI ~ among mott ia seemed as now
The equestrian shape with unimra .sioned brow
That PAGES silent on through vistss of acclaim.
What figure more mmovaby august
man ina, Siaxe strength so gentle and so pure
That soul sc rene. impenetrabiy Just.
Modelled on classic lines simple they endure.
That soul so softly radiant and so white
The tack it left seems less of ti,e than light
Cold but to such as love Gistemperature!
And if pure light. as some deem be the force
That drives rejoicing planets on their course,
Why for his power benign seek an improper
sourcei
Bis was the true enthusiasm tia. burns long,
Domesticay bright,
Fed from itself and shy of human sight
The hidden force thar makes lifetime strong,
And not the short lived fuel of a song.
Passion.ess, say you, WHAT is passion for
But to sublime our natures ard control
TO front heroic tolls with late return
Or none. or such rs sfames the cODqueror
That tse was fed with substance OF the soul
I'D not with holiday stubble. that could burn
l through seven slow years Of unadvanclng war,
squal - hen fields were lost or fields were won
With breath of popular applause or blame.
Sor famed nor damped, unquenchably the same,
Zoo inward to be reached by flaws of idle fame. |
'oldier and statesman, rarest unison;
high poised example OF great duties done
anply as breathing, = worlds honors wora
Is hfe's indifferent gifts to all men born;
Dumb for himself unless il were God,
sut for his barefoot soldiers eloquent.
'ramping the snow to coral where they trod
Held bv his awe In hollOw-eyed content;
dOdett yet firm as Natures self unbalanced
AVE by the men his noDler temper shamed
Tot honored then OF now because he wooed
he popular voice. but that he st II withstood;
Sroad minded. higher souled, there 10 but ore
' no was al this and ours. and all men's-Wash.
ington.
linds etrong BY fits, irregularly great,
hat flash and darken like revolving lights,
at Oh more the vulgar eye unsch0Oled to wait |
n the long curve OF patient days and nights
ounding whole lite to to the circle fair