Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-02-02

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stage coach stops at the little postol
fee BY the way with the sad tsdines.
Garfield dead r The fast ebbine
tide along our storm beaten coast car
ries the news TO Brit0n Queen.
The gentle winds Of the English
Channel wait to fair Republican
France. Garfield daad Mighty, ed
ucated Germany, tells her despotic
neighbor. RUSSIA. that Garfield has
passed away.
The beautiful blue Danube bears
upon its bosom to the Ottoman ESa-
pire that Garfeld's dead The Bal
kans whisper through ''Thermopyla's
Pass, TO classic, esthetic Greece, that
Anlerioaaia I'D BeanEifnl poetic
Greece. the cradle Of learning. Of the
arts and sciences, clasps hands with
the Ionian Isles and mournfnlly casts
her soul-lite eyes overthe watery wastes
and sOliloquizes thus, "A boy who strug-
gled with poverty and hardships that
he might learn my teachings. A man
who preferred my precepts to gold is
slain. /, too, am sad. / have knelt
in my widows weeds and stretched
forth my manacled hands to the fol-
lowers Of the Gross to aid me in my
struggle against the Crescent. They
heard me not Alas I've seen an
end to all perfection T.
I.look around on the crumbIiug decay,
too am slain, am passing away.
Under the Alps to historic Rome,
the great and good man who sits in
the Vatican piously raises his eyes to
Heaven and deyOutly says, Peace to
his ashes" Across the Pyrenees to His
pania's King, the good Alfonso, who
says he viii pray for America in this
her hour Of trial. Boom boom is
heard the minute guns off rock-ribbed
Gibraltar, a. our flagship lowers her
ensign and sends the news far out to
sea. The enchanting Mediterranean,
with azure depths and sunlit pillows,
catches the reflection of Atlantic's
troubled waters. It swiftly flows by
Barbary's coast and breaks its pent mp
sorrow on the drifting, shifting sands
of Syria's waste. The signing of the
Cedars Of Lebanon is heard all over
Palestine. The sacred waters of Jor-
dan say unto Jerusalem that disci-
pie, follower of the meek and lowly
Jesus of Nazareth, has gone home to
rest The whole land Of Judea is sor-
rowful
The great hood-tide is homeward
bound; the swelling. restless sea is
rolling in; on its white-capped pillows
is siivery sheen; out Of the mists Is
seen rainbow; in prismatic colors can
be read, Consolation
Far more precious than rubies are
the messages Egypt, the oldest peo-
pie, weeps with the youngest nation" "
Far off India sends words of comfort.
Ethiopia casts her face down on the
burning sands of the Great Desert and
cries out in agony, "Our champion,
our friend, has gone home to rest r
The Orient grieves with the Occident.
Europa thigh degree weeps with her
younger sister.
Brave Scotland plucks from the
"Grampian Hills" a Thistle. Poor,
down-trodden Ireland in great sorrow
gathers a Shamrock from the moss
covered banks of Killarney. Proud
England wanders
Der the heath and DER the heather,
To find flower that will not wiIher.
Victoria culls from Standardization
q pure white daisy. She twines around
it the Shamrock and Thistle, bedews
them with pure woman's tears,
And sends them far. Ear Ger the sea
To the laod Of the brave, the home Of the free.
Our chief is laid to rest, amid the
booming Of cannon, firing of minute
guns and dropping, waveless banners.
The stricken people grid on the shield,
the Constitution and Union. They
clasp the Star Spangled Banner as
Westward The course Of Empire takes il way;
They love sae boys who wore the blue;
Thes love the boys who wore the grey;
God bless oar country brave and true.
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