Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-06-01

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every part, and can - na6e = fsspond .
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make 10 way through the sssee g : ns@,
on - light etiy il needed p reveal " evssy
work Of nature its elemental ano feseseo
beauty. There il in every nan. astne nns
insiEht Of the post has aid.
- ,<ed OF sua.hiae that doth ieasen
Oar earthly crliness witn the oeams Oh uAfss
And xiorify our eisy
with hight frs N foustains elder than the Day
A couscie nce more divine than We,
a gladn ga fed With secret tears.
a vrxirg forwxId--eachiag sense.
d some more noolc permaeences
a light across the sea
which haants the soal ana visi eos ,es -
Stin gliameiins from the neisnss " ea
years
without The cooperation Of the people.
no reform, moral or Intellectual. vas ever
possible. aud il there we're not that divine
somsthinf in every man which, when
reached, recog nixed and obsyed The eehese
Of . sovereign principle, thas co-opefauoe
could never have beeo had.
Rut sfest masses Of men, like iron, are
s,ov 70 heat and till they have been touched
by some elemental fame. can
NOT be rusted to do the work Of
steel. Therefore it 10, that with nations -
With individuals, all the thugs best worth
doing or thinking have been done in gu
preme and rafs periods Of moral or intel
lec,usl uplifting. when some great oapns-
NAL flame wraps and pufides the nation.
making dark things clear. and some gfsss
primal principle Is seen stamped In BLOOD
and Gre upon the peoples heart.
Such . time came when upon the Ar,
already charged 40 from electric batteries,
Sampler fell, and the souls Of men took
Ore, their thoughts and lives spread broad
and deep, and deeds Of inspired courage
and passion came easy.
Ard now We know Why it 10 that while
Europe 10 silent at Sedan and Waterloo,
and her wars Of conquest are left uncom.
incorporated, yet for our own great War OF
the Rebellion, each year when the spring
comes back. this whole nation Of ours keeps
holiday, and breaks into unique and uni
yerssl f,xes- time to crown our dead VINO
are DO more 1t is because our war was
one Of those bsptismal times, when man
got fast hold on realities. because our
soldiers fought and died, not for things
that live for dav, but for deep and abid-
ing truths on which the world 10 buit, Ior
justice. for freedom, for the rights OF man.
Men commemorate and can never forget
your deeds. because you harnessed your
selves to these irresistible powers, because
those celestial-world voices sang through
your sometimes unconscious lutte, because
somethirg of that elemental surge flowed
beneath You and upbore you to necessary
triumph Such moments m AXE all that 10
worth the having in history one. oil
the pas, a1d all the future are focused In
the one sublime instant, and when the
Inning deed 10 done. you have linked your.
selves imperishabiy win Thermopylse and
Marathon, with Ranymede and Msgns
| Charta.
| And now, aye remaining few.
| That number not the half of those we knew,
le against whose familiar names not yet,
| The fatal asterisk of death is set,
ie salute!
| Where are the others? Voices from the deer
| Caverns of darkness answer me 'lhey Sleep
l name no nance; instinc lively feel
| Il ach at some well,remcmbered grave will hneel
And from the inscription wipe the weeoa ana moss
For every heart best knoweth its own loss y
But the last note should be not Of sorrow
but of exultstion, as the flowers you strev
sre emblems Of hope and not Of gloom.
"Mourn not for them; wherever be the sources
| OF love and gadness, thither have they gone;
l AOu lkc uOpes dtc INV thC' t'ut sors
| And theirs the beauty OF eternal dawn"
Inaworld where so much is fugitive, wher'
the poppy Of oblivion is so soon sprinklet
over even noble names, where all things bu
come into being, and forthwith cease to be
hsppy are ye, the living and the dead, Il
nave passed through the gateway Of i'm
perishaole deeds into the secure regions o.
immortality. There your fallen comradeI
and all dead heroes wait to welcome and Il
crown you. May your example and tn
beautiful ceremony of Decoration keep tn
f.es of patriotism ever alight in your heart
and in ours.
40 Beautiful, My Country Ours once more
| What were our lives without thee?
What all our lives to save thee?
We Teck not what We gave thee,
| We will not dare to doubt thee,
| But ASK whatever else, and we will dare"