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tie ml1st u an .lmost sossl eclipse Of
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band afses fe~ short moashs of mar
ried life He sill nos sspsrsts us, No
have oSen 50 happy" and there "a nueh
shAt IL pathetic In this rhen Ne ro-
inenoer What stormy saa sorrowful
life she had passed through There is.
Zoo, somethiRg ssdtening, II eharac-
sertstse. In oliver Gsldsnith's farewell
words when hls doctor Azkeds is your
mind ~ casey snd be replied. sorrow
fully; mo. 10 Is notJ'' bas it is fair 10
sdd that there seems 70 have been In his
mtnd . natural remorse for Ia ving - ken
his own remedies Ia ypiss of tho rsmon-
strsnoes OF his medical advisers Keats,
Is everybody remembers, exclaimed,
shortly before his death: 81 feel the
flowers growing over me-" beautiful
conception, worthy Il one OF our creates
poets Another poet Torquato Tasso,
died saying. with extreme difficulty:
''In maass taas. Domino" which was
sariously like ths dying prayer Of
Martin Luther.
My days are passed rs shadow that
returns not" were the last words OF
Richard Hooker, but they were not
spoken 50 much In regret for wasted
hours as for his labors being st an end
before they were completed. Joseph
Addison, when dying, called. 1t is SAID.
the young Earl Of Warwick, his wife S
son. very dissipsscd young man, to
his bedside. saying; 'T have sent for
you that you may see how a Christian
can die" Cowper's was Q sad death-bed.
Asked how he felt he replied: ''Feeli
i feel unutterable, unutterable despairp'
His last words were 10 lady who OF
fered him . cordial. What docs 1t sig
nify9" Whom Lord Leverenoe lay on
his death-bed. apparently unable to
speak or recognise any one, his wife
said: "Do you know me7" To which he
replied, quito audibly: ITO nv last
gasp, my darling" and few minutes
later, breathing the words: Pm SC
weary" he passed away. There was
much that was artificial about Pope's
death bod bis attempt to write an
essay on the immortality of the soul
seems unreal, and his last words:
There IA nothing which Is meritorious
but virtue and friendship and. indeed.
friendship itself is only part OF vir'
tue" road more like acopy-book maxim
than a confession of faith. And 1t is
difficult 70 believe that Bolingbroke
was sincere, even when, bending over
the dying poet ne exclaimed: 20, God
what is manT' Mr.. Justice TalfouI
died In the midst of delivering charge
10 the grand jury at Stratford, defining
the needs OF q closer connection between
rich and poor. He was saying: THAI
which is wanted to bind together the
bursting bonds of the different classes
of this country is not kindness. but
sympathy when he was struck with
spoplexy. He could hardly have framed
a noblcr sentiment As Humboldt laJ
dying the sun shone brightly into the
room, and he exclaimed: 'How grand
these rays; they seem to beckon esrtt
to Heaven" But we doubt whether
there are any last words more pathetic
than those OF the dying sohoolmaster
who exclaimed with his last breath: ~
grows dark, boys. You may go homeT