Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-12

On Time and D,Uh " IN CERTAIN pace,
Though stll I'M quail hurry ing on.
Oerturning IN you awful race
me cot, the palace, and the throne
Not always in the storm of war
Nor hy the pestilcnce that sweeps
From the plague-smltten realms afar,
Beyond the old and solemn deeps
In crowds the good and mighty go.
Ana 10 those vast dim chambers HE =
Where. mingled with the nigh and low.
Dca" ''csafs ana dead Shsksperes lie
Dread Ministers OF God sometimes
Ic snilc Al once, to do His will,
IN al catthS oceail-Scvercd cllme9.
THOSE whose renown We cannot kill
W len all he brightest stars that burn
AT once are banished from their spheres,
hch sailN ask, when shall return
Suci luslre to The coming years?
For where is he'-who lived so long
VINO raised the modern Tltan's ghost.
AM showed his fate, in powerful song
Whose soul for learning's sake was lost
Nherc hc-whO backwards to the birth
OF Time Itself, adventurous trOd,
AMIN the mingled mass Of earth
fouul out the landiwork OF God:
Where hc-who In the mortal head.
Ordained to gaze on heaven. could trace
The souls vast features, tnit shall tread
h"Sirs, Whcn caitn Is nOhingncss
Where hc-who struck old Albyn's lyrc.;
TN round The world It's echoes roll,
And swept, with all aprophct's fire,
The diapason of the soul:
Whcr" hc-whO read the mystic lDiet
Buried, where buried Ph iraOns sleep;
And dared presnmptuOus to explore
Secrets four thousand years could keep
Where hc--whO with poets eye
OF ruin. on lowly nature gazed
And made even sOrld Poverty
Classic, when IN his numbers glazed.
WAerc-that old sage so hale aud staid,''
The greatest good who sought to Mud
VINO ~ ms garden mused. and made
All iJrms OF rule, for al mankind? =?
And thuu--wnom millions far remOvedif
Rcvcrcd-the herarch meek and wise,
1'hy ashes sleep, aiored, beloved,
Nedr where thy Wesley's coffin lies.
lie too-the heir Of glory where
Ham great Napoleun's scion Ned?
An glory goes not 10 an heir
TAKE hlm, yc noble, vulgar dead.
But hark, Il nation signs for he,:;
Last OF the brave who perilled all
To make an infant empire free,
Obcys the inevitable cali.
They go, aud with them Is n crowd
:, f0r human rights who thought and dd,
We rear to them 10 temples proud,
Each hath his mental pyramid
All earth is now their sepulchrc,
The mind, their monument sublime
Young IN eternal fame they are
such are your lrinmphs Death and Time.
'Goeihc aud his Faust. tcayler, .spur1ne
"Jcremy Ben'hlm. Adam Clarke. ..Chas carr
Goethe died in Weimar, March 22d, Is
Juyier died in Paris, May 18th, Is
Spurzheim died i'll Boston, Noyeml
10th, 1882. Scat died at Abbotsfo
September 2lst, 1889. Champollion
younger died IN Paris, March ith, Is
The Rev. George Crabbe, severest
poets, C"though Natures sternest paint
yet the best, as Byron sad Of him, } d
in Trowhrdge, eng. } February 81, Is
Jeremy Benthan died in Westmmst
Eng.,) On the 9th of June, 1882. Ad
Clarke died in Bayswnt,r, eng. ! Al
10th, 1882. The Duke of Reichsia
only legitimate son of Napoleon l.,
who was almost invariably spoken Of
Young Napoleon, died at Schonnbru
July 22d, 1882 ; and Charles Carroll
Carrollion. Last Survivor of the Sign
of the Declaration of American In
pendencc. died in Baltimore, Novem
14th, 1882, lie being then in his nine
sixth (96th) year, and having survi,
the first day of American Independe
more than hIty-slx years. We do not
lieye that it would be possible to Ia
from among our dead OF 1882 ten a
superior to the ten named by Mr.. Sal
from the dead OF 1882, Goethe and Sc
certainly being equals Of Emerson ,