Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-31

tne bWeeJ MOWERS OF memory, VINO
knows but sainted mothers long
since gone from out celestial homes
leaped forth like lightning flash
and spanned the gulf 'twixt here and
there and kissed with spirit lips the
hands that strewed the flowers on
children's graves2 Or yet, who knows,
but that these flowers, like Incense
burnt, may make for heavens 10y NJ
SAVIOR swbet that jmingNnk here witN
odors rare from 'apgel's %ines thrown
OFT and mounting up, the Father self
may please and bring his blessing
here? In Paradise-but where IL Para
disc? No matter where, 30 'tis with
Jesus. Up there; yes, up--not down
in narrow confines OF the grave, for
though in Joseph's tomb they laid
him down and DER the grave rolled
heavy stone aud sealed IL up;
and then, rs III TO Ak
forever there the Lord of
hosts and Satan's will complete and
damn world, they BET wal eli. beside
his grave, n hunpn watch 10 thwart
Gods plans and make him lie.
Old Satan, too, methinks | see, In
mute despair, keep watch, foretold 1t
was long years before that three days
past he'd rise again and victor prove
DER death; that Satan's throne he'd
scatter wide, and for himself king.
dom make on earth, and after years
come back again and reign. Airs
prince and power, once morning star,
called Luoifer how great thy power
God only knows, but vain indeed thy
watch by that lone grave. In ages
past Heaven proved thy strength and
headlong hurled thee from her
shores to hell's abyss. Yot,
once again, how vain to
measure arms with God Behold
like whispering zephyrs, Michesl
wings the air, cleft through till, teuCh-
ing earth, II reeled and shook beneath
him. But, splrit'like, he moved the
etone, unlocked the grave, broke
deaths cold chains and Jeeus rose.
Then hallelUjahs from myriad
} tongues In seraph tones pealed forth,
and chords, whose depth OF sweetness
ne or was told, in heavenly grandeur
rolled, swelled and echoed till, like
enchantment's very self, IL hushed the
god of music's lutte and made his
pulse leap wild. Hell's power was
crushed, its prince dethroned Where
once the oracles the future told, now
all was still:
For we are taught by ancient lore,
That murmurs soft on every snofe
Were hoard, and Whispering voices said
''GreHt Pan IN dead, great Pan IN dead,
And twas finished az the Lord had said.
Twas scarcely dawn when Jesus
rose; Aurora's blush Just pinked the
east e'er Sol had broke the day. The
angel sat upon the rock az II prepared
for flight.
But bark football strikes the car,
| hnatR IL nF0 with
and outlined GU horizon clear,
A woman's form is seen.
Blest Mary Had she come TO deob
his grave with flowers as you did thos,
to-day? Her heaving bosom and the
wild glaRcing Of her fast filing eyel
betrayed her emotions. She saw
the yawnlng, empty gTave--ils broken
aeal--the rock moved Off and on Tho
rock Code beauteous sangel sat; anc
then with streaming eyes, beseechinl
mien, and piteous wall, fhe asked
"where Is my dead?n The angel told
--, "arisen.n So 10 you can poin
aloft and mark the spot
Whore loved and lost ones, blue and gray
Our coming wait TIL Judgment day.
After Judge Hollands speech, Col
Emery thanked the people for their
assistance, and said that ut the grand
encampmeut Of the q. A. Il. At Port,
land, Ne, which IL 10 take place the
latter part Of next month and b
which he lie delegate, ne would In.
ylte tho encampment for year after
next 70 be held at Fort Worth, Tex.
The benediction was then pro
nouneed by the Rev. n. NJ. Tinnon
and one OF the largest audiences tina,
ever assembled In the opera-house dis
missed. The members OF the a.. A. u
then went TO the old cemetery and
decorated the graves there.