Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-02-15
A Shakespeare Memorial.

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tpliver Wendell Holmes. poem read 1t
stratford-on-Av
Welcome. thrice welcome is thy silyerly CLEAN,
thou long imprisoned streaml
Welcome ICON the tinale Of thy crystal beads
As summers breath to Avon's whispering
From rook-waiied channels, drowned In ray.
Leap forth to 'IIic and light
wake from the darkness OF thy troubled
Ana greet with answessas smile the morn.
ing's beamt
No purer lymph the white-limbed Naias
Thar from thy chalice 1owss
Starry with spanglcs washed from golden ores
nor CLASSY Streams Dihndusia's fountain
Nor wave translucent where sabrina fair
~ B , s.l ssr lnose-f wing hair,
not the sWu. current, stainless as 1t rose
Where caill Arveiron steals from Alpine
SHOWS.
Here shall the traveller stay his weary feet
Hero at high noon the brown-armed reaper
Here, when the shadows, lengthenine from
Call the mute song>bird to his leafy nest,
Matron and maid shall chat the cares away
While ocans roan d them ias aIcops Of children
meet,
And all the srches ring with laughter sweet.
Here shall tho steed, his patient life who
In toll that aever ends, s.
Hot from his thirsty tramp DER hill and plain,
Fiunge ass red nostrils. while the torturine
Drops In loose loops beside his floating name:
Nor The ,l poor brute that shares his masters
Find his small needs forgot
Iruest of humble, lOna-epduring friends,
Mhose presence cheers, whose guardian care
Here larr,. and thrush, and nightingale shall
sip,
And Swimming swallows dip,
And strange shy wanderers fold their lustrous
Fragrant from bowers that lent their sweet
Where F@stums rose or Persia lilac blooms;
Here from his cloud the eagle stoops to drink
At the full basins brink.
And whet his bcak against its rounded lip,
His glossy feathers giistening as they drip.
Here shall the dreaming poet linger long,
No. Far from naa his listening throng-
Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled
No fai.erilg minstrel strain his throat to
These hailowod echoes who shall dare to
claim
Whose tuneless voice would shame
Wnoso Jangiing chords with jarring notes
The nymphs that heard the Swan of Avon's
song?
What visions greet the pilgrims raptured
What ghosts made real rise.
The dead return7rthey breathe-they live
Joined BY the host Of Fancy's airy train,
FRESH from 'front.' the SPRINGS of shakspeare'squick-
The stream that slakes the souls diviner
thirst
Hore found the sunbeams first:
Rich with his fame not less shall memory
The gracious gift that humber wants supplies.
Ger the wide waters reached the hand that
To all this bounteous wave
win health, and strength, and Joyous beauty
Dlest be the generous pledge of friendship,
From the far home of brothers lovo, un-
brought
Long Wifb far Ays sRr'dss enrolled
CastoIas spring, Egeria's dewy cave.
And Hored's rock the God of Israel clavel
Land of our Fathers, ocean makes us two,
But heart is true!
Proud is your towering daughter In the West,
Yet In her burning life-blood reign Contest
her mothers pulses beating ia her breast
This holy fount, whose rills from heaven de-
Its gracious drors shall lend 4-
botn 1oreheads bafee.e in that baptismal dew,
Ahu 'o'e naAe one the old home and the newt