The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22

Here
Here. where we stand, stood he. the purely
Whose soul no siren baseness could unsp.sere,
In en 1ameless, now q power ana mlAeo VIII
uistcric town. thou holdest sacred dust
9nce known to men ; As PiSqfs aees ieesR to ias S
Rnf Memory greets with reverenual KISS
No spot in all tn circuit sweet as tnls.
b. 5hst = nc bsfb sI1rg spiGusy AZ dispsyed
r. .se hundred Years its monumental shaue'
NJ our swift passage through this scenery
Of life aud death, more durable than We
What landmark 80 congenlal asa tree
It's green legend every spring.
And, with yefsrly ring, -.
Recording the fsdr seasons as tney nee, nee,.,,t.-
TVpe OF cur brief but still renewed mortaHty.
We IA 4 as leaves: the immortal trunk remains
Buiided vita costly juice OF hearts and brains
(soue TO the mould now, wh1ther all tuaL DC
Vanish returnless, yet are procrcant still
In human lives TO come of good or III,
AND iced unseen the roots Of Destiny
ii. l.
Mems monuments, grown ed, forget 'thelr
They sSorI5 eternize but the place
Where shining souls have passed lmoloes
Bsvo5d mere earth; some sweetness of their
fames
I,aax-esIn the soil its unextiIzSuished trace,
p, nrant pathetic, sad with nobler AIMS.
Tnat peretrates our lives and heightens them
This 1nsn an sub al world and fleet
Seems -seiid for a moment when We stand
ON dust ennobled by heroic feet
Once m ,ghty To sustain totterlng land-
Aud mighty still such burthen to up5ear,
Nor doomed to tread the path of things that
Oar sense. refined with virtue of the spot,
Across the mists of Lethes sleepy stream
Recalls him, the sole chief without oiO''
No more a pallid image and dream,
Bat as he dwelt with men decorousiy supreme
-Our e,-osser minds need this terrestrial hint
TO raise those buried days from tomos OF print;
Here stood me- softly we repeat,
And 10, the statue shrined and still
in that gray minister front we call the Past,
Feels IN It's frozen veins eur pulses tnTlLl, !.
RIeathes living air anu mOckS at Deatn 5 ue-
II warns. it stirs comes down to us at last,
its features human with familiar light.
a man. beyond the historians art TO kill,
OR Scu5ptor's to efface with patient chisel blight
sure the dumb earth hath memory, nor for
Was Fsncy given, on whose enchanted loom
Present and Past commingle, fruit and bloom
OF oce fair bong a, insePs raoiy ,Cal wrohght
40 charmeI with undecided eye we see
In history s fraementary tale
Bright cews of continuity,
Learn that high natures over lime pfeVall,
And feel ourselves link in hat entail
That binds all ages past with all that are to be-
Beneath our consecrated elm
A century ago he s-ood,
Famed vaguely for that old fightin the wood
Which redIy fGamed round him but could not
Overwhelm
The life foredoomed to WELD our rough hewn
Fpom colleges. where now the gown
To arms had yielded, from the town,
The new come chiefs and wonder which was he.
No need toquestion long; close-h p ped and tall,
Long trained in understanding forests lone
To bride others clamors and his own,
Firmly erect he lowered above them all,
The incarnate discipline that was to free
With iron curb that armed democracy.
A motley rout was that which came TO stare,
In raiment tanned by years. of sun and storm,
"Ofevery shape that was not onlIornn,
Dotted with regimentals here and there;
An army all of captains, used to pray
And stifTin fight, but serious drills despair,
skilled TO debate their orders, not obey;
In half-tamed hamlets amoushed round with
Ready To- Settle Freewir by a vote,
But largely liberal to its private moods;
Prompt TO assert by manners; voice, or pen,
or ruder arms their rights as Englishmen,
Nor much fastidious as to how and when:
Yet seasoned stuff and fittest 10 create
A thought-staio army or lasting state:
Naughty they said he was, at first. severe,
But owned, as su men own, the steady hand
Upon the bride, patient TO command,
Priced, as all prize, the justice pure from fear,
Aud learned 20 honor first, then love him. then
such power there is in cleareyed self-rpstraint
faint.
Nusing beneath the Legend airy tree,
The years between furl off, l seem to see
Toe un-hecks, shaken tfe stirred foliage
Dao2ie with gold his sober buff and blue
And weaye prophetic aureoles round the head
That shiEe oar beacon now Hor darkensw IN The
O, man OF silent mood.
A stranger among strangers then,
How art thou since renowned the Great, the
Familiar as the day in all the homes of men.
~rhe winged years, that winEow praise anC
gslogr many names out: they but fan to flame
The seIf-renewinG splendors of thy fame.
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How many subtlezt influences snite.
With spiritual touch of joy or pain,
invisible as air and soft as light,
TO body forth that image o. the brain
We cali our Country. visionary shape; -,
Loved more Than woman, fuller OF IRE thar
wine,
Whoge charm can none Define
Nor any. thSugh he Gee It, can ess7pe,
Sets IN his web, now trivial now sub .ime,
All memories. sll fors5odings. hopes and fears
Mountain and river, forest; prairie, sea.
= hfIs a rock, a homestead field, tree,
The casual glee nings of unreckOued years,
Take goddess shape at lost and there is She,
rn Of our easne ~ 4 forrTess Our
CONSIDER, kindler, peerless mid her peers,
- force thai neat our conscious being stirS,
A life to gEe ours permaRence when we
are borne To M iDsle our poor earth With hers,
And alt this glowing worlC goes with as on Oul
blefs.
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YOU who hol 4 dear this self-conceived ideal,
Whose faith ard worss alone can make it real
Bring all your faireSt gifts t0deck her shrine
Who lifts our Ii yes away froLl Thine and Mine
And feeds them at The core with manhood naor'
d vine:
SVhen all have one their utmost surely he
"a ath given the best who gives q character
Frn sct and constant. which nor any shock
Of iOOseled elements, nor the fopceful sea
az A owing or OF ebbing fates can stir
Fron its deep ba es Ia the 1ving rock
ar an, ,ient m anhoOd's sweet security:
And n lis he gave, seFenely lar from pride
A base ness, boon with prosperous stars allied
part OF what nobIer seed shall in our IOini
3.
No bond OF men so strong ss common pride
IN names ST. 'blmed by deeds that have not died
These are tn, ir arsenais, these the exhanstles
mines
THAT give a cor lstant heart in great designs