The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-06

Who can recall how nightly were tried
The splendid race that lived and grandly
died
To make this land place for Freedoms
seat,
And for earth's poor a safe and sure re-
treatl
What tolls were borne, wars fought and
dangers faced
AS one by one were hswed and firmly
placed
The corner stones of states, until at last
The days Of doubling and OF dread were
passed,
Until the Great Republic, robed in light,
Splendid in graces and superb in might,
Shone on the world as shines ia space
afar
Out on the upper deep ths Polar star.
10 guide the mariner, to guild the night,
Midst sweeping suns the one unchsnging
light.
And while we grasp the gloIies of this
| hour,
While all that this day means comes in
full power
Upon our hearts, We question should our
souls;
Could we, from out the storms and thun-
der-rolls
BRING Order forth and Peace2 Amid
wars shock
Could we nations cradle calmly rock?
Or could we like our brothers bear our
breasts,
To meet rebellion's lances set in rest,
And wait, through anguish like second
birth,
To savs free government upon the earth7
We know not, but in thought we see
again
The desert tracklees and the storm-swept
main,
As yet no p4thJ marked on :he COLLEEN
Coast,
The whole great west IN barbsrism lost
UntiI We came; ard counting since the
years,
Marking what hearts have broken, and
what tears
In silence have been shed; how With
stern pride
Brave men have smiled DER broken hopes
and died
Without plant noting the pain aud toll,
K quired to consecrste savage soil
To order ard TO law; t. build secure
| The archers on which states are TO endure;
| We take some credit 10 ourselves; in
thought
We kinEhip claim to those brave souls
who wrought,
Where their great deeds will as the ages
roll
Glitter forever on Fame's golden scroll.
So from these alters mere to-day, we may
prefer this prayer;
God of our fathers, keep this land forever
in Thy care;
Keep over 1t our holy flag, with stars in
creAslug, bright;
The na'iOn's radiant guide by day, its
anp OF light By night:
Keep ure ard lesl our maids and wives,
cur men keep brave and true;
| Keep ThOu our cages strong and wise,
| and as tn~y years renew
The generations on our shores, may they
| Increase 10 might,
| Until immovable in power, invincible for
tight
When ring each year the solemn peas, to
mark the swift year fed,
Standing before the living. and above the
mighty dead;
| The men succeeding US shall see nation OF
As meier before In glory woke smile on
earth's sad face;
natien held by justice up, whose sell by
peace is tTod;
Where freedoms temples shed their rays
sweet Is the smile ef God.
Croxall's Silver Band played with
unusual feeling Nearer My God to
Thee" at the conclusion of which
Judge P. T. Van lille was intro
dueed, when he read the Grafton.
The document, which is given be-
low, is quite able, and its delivery
was clear and distinct, and well
listened to, and we'll received with
approval when it was finished.
GRAFTON:
To-day We, as q nation, are stand
ing upon the outer boundary of
another years march, and boxing
back through the more than q cen.
fury that has passed, are rejecting
upon the grand achievements Of
other years, with their difficulties
and trials, opping here and
there as we, on memOry's wlngs,
retrace our steps, to breath In the
sweet fragrance Of the flowers that
are blooming by the way side,
nourished and fostered by the beau
tiful sentiment Of freedom and
equal rights; and with the history
of America that is already written
before US, we try here to peer into
the futWe and discern, II we can,
upon what grounds the camp fires
of the coming years Will be lighted,
and what is in store for us.
! Upon such an occasion, ruled and
governed, and possessed by such
thoughts and reflections as only
have place in the heart of true
American citizen what can be said2
1t seems to me that the most elo-
Iquent ora ton l could pronounce al
such O time would be simply tc
stand here aud point to the history
Of this grand country, the birth of
VII CHI We to-day celebrate.
a nation VIII Ise grandeur is moi
told alone by her vast domains anC
unconquerable proves who's
strength lies not alone IN brawny
arms and innumerable hOsts-but il
the sentiments, principles and granC
institutions upon which it is build
ed, into which its life is rooted.
"We hold these truths to be self
evident that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed BY
their Creator with certain unali0na