Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-04
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SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 4, 1852
GARFIELD.

GARFIELD.
By Mrs. Ellen key Blunt.
"A niece Of Francis Scott Key, resident in Wales
How beautiful it was TO die as he has died.
Making calm around him by the force
OF his great soul, commanding peace from
strife,
And changing ali the discord into rest
A heavenly music heard as life departs.
How wonderful It was that the accursed hat
Which smote him brought forth only loYa
love;
Like to some holy bell that being struck
ResOunds with wOndrous sweetness. sound
ing Oh
Through all the spaces to eternity.
How noble was his doubtless fortitudc
Which, as he lay expiring, day by day,
Made him almost control his destiny,
And look upon his torture with a smile.
As his life was,cI in great patience. wonder
fngIy
His watchers watched him. They were no:
alone
OF his own people, bu. hi, watchers were til,
world,
From far-OT shores and seas with pIiiiul
Sad yearnings toward him Il, his star went
down.
Nine time Is ten million souls in his own ton que
Prayed to the Almighty tor his single life:
But lie had risen too near to heaven in his
great flight
To stoop again to earth, and SO God tool; him.
Like star folded I'm more perfect light.
And hc is dead, and multi,udcs have come
TO his dead presence and. with solemn care
Moving in silence to the IN casmrca strain
q in f,,l
Repeated III they bore him step by step
Through harvest fields of riDcning trOd,lcn
grain,
They laid him rcvcrenily, gently down
Where all the shr,vrs o, earth are gathered at
the last.
Upon his pu!sclcss form are richly piled
Wreatiis, garlaniS. OF the Late yet lavish
bloom
VI the perfected su'nnIcr. with The exquisite
thrill!
Oh lie =" fac sh upon their shining leaves
Banners are lurlci aroun him. :,nu the iia,;
We love drO"ps mourning DER the lnournin"
And from a!:.r beyond our land and lake.
From the great world that watched him won
dcringly
Come kind f:trcweIls and lender sv...puihis..
'eJ A.A' WIZ istit every tongue
And kings have claimed him conra i.. hand
in hand.
Fame has recorded him.
Love has rewarded him.
Mother, wife, children ami people wcpt over
him.
Englan accounted him
kindred by blood.
All that are great and good
Have as his EiOurncr5 stood
W lille he lay. day by day, pa sing away
Queen seni:. comforting words of cheer.
And flowers To fade on his bloody bier
God save the Queen when her last hour j.
The North WIS his by birth.
The South i his by death.
lie conquered 10y suffering glandly horne
our long clicris!ml strifcI they are gone :,n.,
now
together VIC look on his male dead
face.
To whom we had given. the elected. mower
more great
Than amy kings. Together we revere
The majesty with which he laid il down
Al Gods command. Together we shall love
His memory, and each other for his sake,
And for the heart 40 high that il :. could hate
t'o rest him! He has rested him, |
can /" hurt " him more |
{" Nothing can touch him further" |
More han Il king he lies
With the strOn. blaze of the wor:.l'S homage
Full on his clnsedcycs.
American, born in he forest
The great lake for him Sighs
And England, crowned and ~c.'pirrrl,
Loves him rs he dies
lie fought in the dcaihly valley
From morn till the set OF sun
Til eighty days had run,
Then he folded his arms
And his day was done.
Oh, the bloom Is OF OF the prairie
The butterfly ) change is begun.
lhe pine cone flowers eternal
Thc eagle has scared 10 the sun.