The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-12-31
A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE.
The Veterans OF Post Is, OF HaekettstOWn, v. j.,
Hnnor = Past Commander.

Honor 4 Past Commander.
On Thanksgiving evening last the comrades
of Sedgwick Post. Is GAR, Of Hackettstown,
y. j., drove across the mountains and surprised
Past Com. L. X. SchOenheit. A merry good
time was had. Among the presentations 10
tho comradc by the old boys was the follow
ing poem, gotten up handsomely, aud composed
aud read by Adi't Deforest:
Hard by the streams which OF do flow,
Full on their bO=oms bearing
Full with the tide OF human woe
Respleudent plumes Of many oOuTtieEs wear
ing,
Hath trod Germana's sons. upon whose banks
reclining
Each step thus made hath brought near full
orbed day,
In Freedoms train a-shning
While up ThurinEia's mountain-steep,
The eye of Liberty e'er turning,
Through all the ages past.
Full many legion strong the proffered bride Is
spurnng.
There Lulher's theses gave to darkness such re-
buke,
Thus ignorance and superstition oerturning;
There. from c'assc hail and tempted grove,
Came Heavens richer learning.
From lands like these, 50 full Of lore, Of kingly
tread of light,
or legend dim. bcguiing.
Came he whose love we share Tonight
To manhood grown, while crested Hope Is smiling.
Urged on DER main and sea,
To chimes where spirits walked and watched,
The glorious dawn discerning.
Immortals of led by Washington.
Whose hearts, on fire. were burning
With Heavens truths, sown deeply there;
Thus in Gods might declaring
That for themselves, ave
The worlds oppressed Of every nation sharing,
There should arise an image fair.
Across whose brow written
Truth. Justice, Equality Before the Law,
Nor hence foreyeFmore with bonds be smitten.
Code and daughters,
Souls noble, bearing crosses well,
Commingling with their own
The richer blood Of lord and baron.
Whose very death gave birth Of brotherhood
or all mankind. Colurnbia's liberty sharing.
Not lie alone came thus. but myriads,
Whose bands no power can break,
Unless 'tis by some evil spell, some heart with
envy ranking,
And To himself shall take the pride that caused
Dire ruin to the third Of Heavens hosts,
Satan inAaming.
Or else by broken altar, Gods Day o'erturned,
The lusts Of eye or vice which needs no naming.
| These these alone shall turn TO shame
The Nations greater glory.
Our fathers gave in flow Of blood.
Learned at the mothers knee In song and story.
Indeed. II this be so. wen turn with shame and
From paths which so offend. while we give thanks
tomorrow.
And, ruled with ruler who excel as patriots,
So mark our way with every virtue Craven;
Unuumbered years alone shall speak
Gods flow Of love 10 earth from out His haven.
Coming to n spot that tells Of Fatherland HartE,
Hight stand Old when work Is done,
Sluggish streams are bright with gold.
Bes:irt with setting sun,
While valleys take their name thrice told.
So kinlike, that po4tmark of leads the mind
In transition to f,r-farned German pike and home
So bright so full Of ancestral thought.
As tTReiugs tell u, POD years and more have passed
Since relies rare, now owned by him,
BY cunning hands were brought into existence.
In these. mayhap, were stored
Wines, long quaffsd by baron or By lord,
Long forgotten.
A time goes on. these things viii tell
| The Joys that have their fulIness in
The pride Of daughter grown.
The sturdy boys long gone from home,
| Wearing the cCronet OF fathers daring,
The future bright by the Omnipresence OF mother,
| In the fight across the trackless plain;
I Mother. whose queenly step gives token
That ehvRlric blood flows ever on,
And lineage with memory are twins ne'er broken.
The months, the years. have flown apaee,
And thus their course have run,
/ Casting their drapery over scenes half written,
Father. mother, daughter, son,
To US alike well-nigh hidden.
/ BE 1t so; but there is to day
| Given, on which we look with pride. The way
Marked by flaming sword all erimsoned.
| Nor life death shall so offend.
/ That all may write, 1.-THE air Is free,
The future doth portend that God Is with IA"
| IT'S on such days heart flows TO heart,
And comradeship is linked In Heaven.
J When marching orders from the Master come.
Reunion then Is given. When spirits bright
by death brought light,
| And DER each star and Stripe wrote Freedom"
SchOenheit was there. with glittring blade and
bosom bare,
/ To stay the guilty tide Of Treason.
There, yes, midst changing steel and suphurouH
shock,
To oppose helrs grim forces, oontending for the
| rock
/ In which were bound our hopes Of union.
/ There. with flashing eye, he saw the doom
| or legiOns Fastening to the tomb,
| Swept on by his right arm.
/ There. yes. on plunging charger. not in vain,
| While Treasons ranks are cut In twain,
| Aud captive banners tell the tale,
/ How DER mountain. sea- and vale
/ White winged Peace long to prevail, Is come.
| There, yes, in grateful praise, In joyous song,
/ With blue mailed warriors, thousands strong,
/ With no upbraiding, crimes forgiven,
/ To vanqushed foe, they add q blessing.
o. day of days, but twice earth to, mortal.
| given
/ The first, the best; now the clouds are riven,
/ While angels sing aud point the way,
| How Death hath lost her yenOmed sting In God.
| dear Son.
| To this more We'll add
/ A day beneath the AprTs sun,
| And show how new-made graves
/ Give forth the spirits brave,
| Aud set with blood their seal TO union.
| The work Is done.
| Hungarian Women.
lHTPer's M1ga=iHel
| In the Hungarian women we purposeIy over
LOOK any foibles that may exist, for. without
palaver, the Hungarian women are among the