Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-10-25

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GR1LLPARZER's ADDRESS AT THE GRAVE
OF BEETHOVEN.
Ludwig Won Beethoven, born December
II, 1870, at Bonn; died March 26, 1927, at
Vein. In memory of the great master of
music I lay before the readers of the Visitor
Grillparzer's funeral sermon, as delivered
by Wien's renowned actor, Anschutz.-THE
TRANsLAToR.]
"As we stand here at the grave OF the
dead, we represent q whole nation, as it
were, mourning over the event of a highly
solemn half which is left from the vanished
splendor of art. Yet he lives; and may he
live long-the hero of song in German
speech and tongue! But the master of song,
the heir and extender of Handel and Bach,
of Haydn and Mozart's immortal, renown,
has finished his earthly career; and, weep
ing, we stand by the broken strings Of the
harp. An artist was he, and what he was,
he was only through art. LIES thorns
wounded him deep !; and, like a shipWrecked
sailor clinging to the shore, so he rushed in
to thy arms, oh mighty art!
1AIlU tIlOu, SVOu anu True, llkC uI CACCi-
lent sister sorrow-comforter, yea, thou didst
console him. Firmly he held to thee and
even after the door was locked through
which you entered to him, he still heard thy
voice. And when blindness had oyertaken
him, he still held thy picture in his heart,
and when he died it lay on his breast. An
artist was he, and who will stand beside
him?
''From the COO of a dove to the roll of the
thunder, from the subtle intercession of Ca
PRECIOUS art to the formidable point where
education passes over into the irregular
contending power Of nature, everything has
he misunderstanding understood. Who
ever comes after him will not continue, but
will have to begin, for his predecessor fin
ished where art ceases! ..t@
ssCome, make a circle around his grave,
and bestrew it with laurels.
"He was an artist, but also a manA-a man
in every sense of the word. Because he die
not mix with the world. they said he was
hostile and because he failed to show per-
ception, they judged him unfeeling. He
who knows himself to be hard of heart will
= not fly 1T is just the oyermeasure of percep'
ton that avoids feeling. ssv~ssr~~ j
, '.If he Stunned the world it was that il
the depth of his amiable nature there wa'
no weapon to fight against the world. If ht
did not associate with the people it was tina
r he gave them everything, but wished moth
# ing in return. m
'.He remained alone, because he found NJ
t heart-throb like his owl.
y $50 he lived, SO he died, SO will he liv'
o forever. But you-you who attend us her
IS at his grave-a balm on you aching hearts
l.. You have not lost, but have won him. Whel
d the gate of life has closed behind us, and W
It reach the temple of immortality, we shal
see him there, the greatest, unapproachabl
:, as ever. H## #3#5
a Therefore, though we part in mourning
n calm yourselves, and if ever in life, whe
,r ~oyerpowered by his divine harmonies, yo,
,e tears shall flow, remember this hour, an
d think: We were there as they laid him i
[e the grave, and when he died we Wept."
THE MAN WHO STOPS HIS PAPER.
1e Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in his admir-;
BILE page on "Jntellectual Lite" thus tall
to the man who stopped his paper
I Newspapers are to the civilized worl
ly what the daily hous talk is to the membe1
of the .family-they keep our daily intere
lin each other, they save us from the evils