Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-08-12

upon the wall. His epaullrttes nave
become mute mementoes. His com.
mission is, or soon shall be deposited
in the National archives beside those
of Washington, Warren, jackson
Harrison ana other fallen military
heroes OF err county. To-day u
nation is his funeral corlege, md, with
bowed head and sullased eyes, we
revercntly resign him 10 the embrace
OF Silent Sepulchcr.
'Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb.
Take ihis new treasure 10 thy trust,
and give these sacred relies roou
To slumber In the silent dust"
His burial place Is our land.
"on fame's eternal camping ground,
Ills silent tent il spread.
And glor, guards with solemn sound
The biyouac OF the dead,
REST on, embal lined and sacred dead.
Dear is the life you gave.
No impinus footsteps mere shall tread
The heritage OF your grave
Nor shall yolr glory be forgot,
While fame her record keeps,
Or honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
lyon marble minstrel's voiceless stone
In doubtless song shall tell,
When MANY wang ished year hath flown,
The story how you fell.
Nor wreck, nor change nor Winters olight
MOI times rem orspless doom,
Can dim one ray of holy light
That gilds your glorious tomb"
81 heard voice from heaven saying
unto me, write, blessed are the dead
who die unto The Lord, yea, hencefor,h,
saith the spirit, for hey rest from their
labors, aud their. works do follow
them.'"
To the wild and the fathercss, so
made by his death, we would tender
our sincere coincidence. As 10 the
mortal remains and their last resting
place, they are and ever will be under
the wakeful watch care Of the nation,
he served 50 we'll. AS to the immortal
element Of his aggregate beng; while
among us he was the ripe corn when
the sickle thrust was male, and, when
the moment of indiscribable solcmniiy
came when the immortal tenant
escaped the mortal tenement, he real.
lied that, "fhe chamber where the
good man meets his fate is privileged
far beyond the common walks OF vir.
luous life, qai,e on lie verge of
Heaven" No matter then about the
mooled question of The literal resur.
rectiun OF the body, if the tenant sur.
wives the tenement 1t must find new
and better abode.
"Riyorf to the ocean run,
Nor stay in all their course
Fire ascending seeks the sun,
Both speed them to their source.
So the soul. IA spark from God,
Longs to view his glorious face;
Upward tends to his abode,
10 dwell in his embrace"
General grant had 80 lived, thought
| and acted HI TO have well needed the
admonilion of Thanalopsis:
| 80 live that when thy summons comes
| To join the innumerable caravan,
Which moves The mysterious realms,
Where each shall take his chamber,
In the silent haIls of death,
| Thou 20 not like the quarry slave al night,
Scourged 10 his dungeon;
But, sustained and soothcd by on unfaltering
trust.
| Approach thy grave as one who draws the
| Livery of his couch about him and lies down
70 pleasant Dreams "
And 50 went out the mortal, and so
began the immortal life Of the great
and good departed.
BY the eye of faith we see his i'm.
mortal being conveyed to the bosom
of his God, and among the white.
plumed retinue we see Il Washington,
an Adams Il Jefferson, Madison, u
jackson; but most near to him, sup
porting him on either hand, we see
two martyrs-one is Garfield and the
other is Lincoln. There, they have
passed the Crystal Gates of Pearl they
nave slipped Of the River OF Life. they
have puckeo the ambrosial fruit, they
reach The Palace OF the Eternal King,
and there We will leave them.
Hank! A voice comes back to US /:
cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn,
hither comer'