The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-18

ONE S35 or $40 from the entertainment TIL,
after was entirely worthy of attention. The pro
,ramme we published on last Saturday. The dedi
atory poem, by Benz. f, Taylor, was as follows:
From Gods own Clearngs, Illinois
Sends greeting: Valiant lady, hail,
But with no eloquence of voice,
Or song, or painters magic veil
Or ruby glow, or diamond light,
We come upon Mount vernon's night.
The world is strewn with Idle words,
As woods and skies with leaves and birds
They flash and hutter, and gone.
Dear lady! think; this book of names,
Where all are loves and some James.
Was never in a lexicon,
They mean many earnest lives
OF fathers, mothers, sweethearts, wives
Mean will and work; and nothing dead
Is on these parchment pages spread.
Ana, To- this living language tells
The world, as If cathedral bells
Had rung salutation sweet
To thee. or loving hands had set
Forget-menots TO coronct
Thy brow-strewn roses at thy feet,
What honors bright to her belong
Who keeps within her heart unhush'd
The dear old homcstead's simple song
Who keeps the wayslde flowers uncrush'd
That bloomcd around the cottage nest
Ere day grew ruder, and the flare
OF fashion. and the pomps that stand
Around like statues in tOrcls glare,
The world front face on either hand
Had banshcd sweet and dreamless rest.
Music and sculptor hand in hand
The painter with electric wand.
The almond.trec with solemn shine
And orange blossoms swiftly Irvine,
The leglons of the Fourth Estate,
With poet hero meet and mate.
Join with the ermine and the lawn
To pass the royal greeting
From mountain range to either sea-
With accord, "(iodspeedr to Thee,
Though Lucy" is a name for light
And never yet has called one star
OF all the multitude, it might
Have christened worlds so fair and far
That beags with angelic eyes
Could think they looked on Paradise;
Did name thee lady, in some mood
Prophetic. Few like thee have stood
Upon the Peoples threshold, where
The herads of all nations go
And come sea.tides ebb and flow
Have stood serene, to brayely dare
And pass the rainbow vintage round
The board where wine the crystal crowned
With graceful bravery have stood
In grand and sterling womanhood
Unfaltering in thy high estate,
The Sunshine flashing from the dome
"here prince ana people s'ahu ana wait,
lhere thou diust Drlng the charin OF nome
chieftain's yalor t. a wOmans grace,
All lily white 10 that exalted place.
And when thy fe's long summer afternoon
CLOVIS slowly down along the western sky,
The low, sweet cauence of pleasant tomb.
Some fragrant argoses of cloud shall lie
L'ne "n."o,.u ho,cS iou,u inc so'ueh gaze
win ileist Oh ,aousi's anu hopes an s"eeler iar
i"ah no"',' III nay Vi oo'ion otee|cs are
anu 'nen-oe long ue,iyeo 'Ae Instant uay'-
oo"io l'ul"',' soh'iS sn''i Sau'e anu say;
Ay' welcome nome though thou dtdst enter late ~
And then thy volceless eloQuence of life,,
Free as the bed OF Volets from strife,
Shall live right on. ike some fair star that died,
Struck from the roll of our celestial sphere.
And yet, whose trembling brilliances abide
And dawn along the ages far and near
Defy deaths count and will not be denied;
Or like the dew the star shines in that sinks
And disappears. The earth responds in flowers
And tells what thoughts of loneliness 1t thinks,
The dews turn daisies and the rain.drops hours.
Lives nobly ended make the twiights long.
And keen in heart Gods nightingale of song
The SINGING of Mrs G. p shouse of Jo,ie,
wa verv epiovshla Sic hos nn;oo ~ TO-.
weetness and nuritv. and sings with exonisits
aste She was vol sccnmnan;ed hv Miaa Ea1r;.
Ma nlev 40 nisnist Niss Cbsrio,te iuorL,o raod
no. snowsd she has imnrovad decidedlv sinca boz,
ormcr ann.arsnre here in stvle and powar. ant
or roodinr ~ .NistreSs Noinnan uas q oh. rms
NO hit of dialect prof Kavzsr Wa On ~.
x6o,e Extraordinarily .rd In b.rdIS Ala h h III.
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3ulwer '.Diverm which was read in snnerb s,uie
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