New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-08
IN MEMORIAM.
u. 9. GRANT.

Sorrow to-day makes worlds one Commonwealth
Mourning rulseless yet still Humorous life,
While the Republic writes it's eulogies
With tend'rest tears upon It's peoples hearts.
His knighfly soul hath conquered all its foes.
And found sweet rest In valleys shadowess;
Time ne'er will hush the cannon OF his deeds.
Nor rust sword drawn for the centuries.
No more the fading laurel OF the tree
Rules brief sautes. nor vanishing applause.
his name is earanded with gTeener bays
That die not In the wreathing. as DO flowers:
or these are dauntless and inspiring faith,
Loyal convictions and Just purposes
Calm perseverance, sweet simplicity,
The white sincerity OF recttude,
Courageous prudence. pstence resolute.
Modest In words while etching clocuenoe
Upon the Nations tablets with hs deeds;
Returning to his foes surren iered blades
That thrift might with them till neglected fields;
sheathipg his sword In scabbard OF the law
To lay 1t on the silken fods Of peace;
Faithful I'm friendship holding fast each hand
His grasp once trusted; lifting mercy up
In his strong arms to kiss wars iron lips;
Leaving outside his threshold glory's palms
That home mi ght be the abode OF love alone;
Letting betrayal and its cancerous shines
Feed on the noble tissue OF his grief;
Dying with cureless pain unmurmuring,
Yet in its throes with godlike fortitude
WELDING the pen OF faithful history;
And when he voiceess lay. great patriot sun,
Pluming the Nations eagles with good will
Such the evcrgrcens our love will Gull
Ont from the higher forests Of his deeds.
To wreathe round Judgments colder monuments.
Yet through the focused camera OF time
lie will grow grander, for the voice was his
That gave a people hope unfaitering
Till victory rame Ills was the dazzling sword
That typed the Nations spendor and It's might,
1t. flash our beacon. His the saving hands
Which peace rewarded with its civic seal.
Where. II his iustre essenei. twas that war
Outshone the radiance of softer rule,
But not his hues of golden honesty
For public faith His labor did cement
Iibcrty's Keystone in the Nations arch.
That Der IT. massive sran enfranchised wards
Might march unshackei. chanting freedoms songs
Between colossal columns t. his name
Great dlgnties OF duty wrought by worth
Stretch the green plains from which he grandly rose.
We lay him there in restfulness. There worlds
May con tie heavenly proverb. that God sends
HIS greatest heralds to mans brotherhoods
From lowy blrths-llke the majestic Christ.
or such our hero. act above the kings,
BY more than kingly dover OF his deeds,
But ever our great citizen Of hearts.
Not marbed urns nor scnlttrred monuments,
Not mansoleums bronzed nor donel tombs.
Arches commemorative. nor grayen brass,
Nor gilded pantheons DER imperial dead.
VIII c'er ontlive that grand. approaching shaft
or welded hearts whose altitude IL Heaven.
Built to the simple graz deur OF his life
For giant fame like his Is made In part,
or little gifts from every patriot.
Which his great shroud return, ~ with Increase,
Drapes III with It's own sorrows and thus makes
Each FOWLER one some sbarer In his all.
His tomb's a shrine forever: on 1t strew,
Amid the humber daisies OF the poor.
The grandor roses OF the grleyng great
Law on his breast blue viocts Of the North.
Twlned with the grayer lilies OF the South:
For this great gardener OF the Nation gave
His life that they might blossom side by side
Their he'd one land. blessed by one nag, one God
GEORGE X. BLANCHARD.