The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-06

fere death, the tyrant fierce and grim
With undisputed power reigns,
:inds down each mouldering trunk
limb
With Lethe's everlasting chains,
And makes the Icing man grow
pale
To think he'll Him ere long assall
with fierce and fatal pains,
] nd sink him to that dreaded grave
rom which an angel cannot save.
hl ages, sexes, and conditions
SHave here the debt of nature paid,
b spite of efforts of physicians
Ito have that payment (due) delayed;
3 And it will almost bring a tear
To see their graves so very near,
Mas if the hvieg were afraid
bat they who've run their earthly race
aould have too large resting place.
sere every title is forgot,
$And here do all distinction cease,
nt all partake the self same lot
sAnd nothing ever mars their peace;
None here do ever hate or love,
q None do condemn, none do ap-
8 prove,
None ask for their release;
it-passive prisoners they lie,
ever smile nor ever sigh.
Re closely dwell the young and old,
She brave, and those who wereafraid,
+ "a he who toiled and heaped up gold
erchanee.isby a beggar laid;
III III And eonely youths who once were
s vain
And didless favored ones disdain
Have with them here decayed;
a learned and ignorant and wise
equal in this mcnarch's eyes
VI.
sr those who in this dark abode
Have laid them down to take their
81 rest, ~
Ill many a bitter tear has flowed
@And many a heart has been dis
tressed. ~.
So MANY have seen those relics hid
# Beneath the shroud and coffin lid
With grief that's ne'er expressed;
Sd for the dead those badges worn
aich tell the Icing that they mourn.
VII. --
d for a tribute to their worth
ome have erected DER their graves
tone that tells their name and birth
md virtues when they died-which
"a saves ---.E-.s..
Their names from what's the COM
mon lot
To sink at once land be forgot
$Beneath,oblivion's dark waves;
;ut shorts the time the bark can ride
gll fate will sink it in the tide.
Il VIII.
s,t many graves I here behold
Not even honored bya stone,
18th letters traced thereon, to- unfold
The name of him or her alone.
y But shapeless stones are there to tell
s. How little love the living feel
Cor their departed fFienas-unknown,
Eff it wassnot worth the cost
,skeep their names from being lost.
Sough it recks nothing to the soul
when it has from the body passed,
rEit should sleep at either pole
.Or to the winds of heaven be cast;
Yet still humanity will say
land should ye not her voice obey?)
Write DER the grave at last
ne name, that all who come may know
whose dust it is that sleeps below.
there's the grave Of one that's seen
vrwice forty welcome springs appear,
o clothe the earth in living green
,As many winters end the year,
And did that hoary headed man
Who measured out so long a span
Meet death without a fear?
Aye! was his spirit purified
ike gold that's in the fire tried:
XI.
led lived to see what all may see
who do not found their hopes on
dreams),
The vonity the uanity"
Of worldly hopes and worldly
schemes,
And if the sun of Righteousness
Found in his bosom free access
To pour its heavenly beams,
hen, then he did not live in vain
Tor did the grave victory gain.
MI.
nd yonder is the grave OF one
Who died while he was in his prime,
h little thought he that his sun
Would set within so short time,
Buoyant with Youthful hopes no
doubt
He had his hopeful plans laid out
The. highest mount to ctine6,
sut in a most unlocked for hour
Ie fell beneath the monarch's power.