The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-10-22
THE GENERAL.
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THE GENERAL.
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Oh. who. beneath the shadow Of his deeds,
Can truly judge The grandeur of his soul;
Can point the niche that history areads
And mete the fame that waits our Gsneralf
Whose siead:ast spirit stood impregnabls
A his whose shoulders rapt Philisiia's gates;
What time he came in answer to sach call
As that which war alone legitimates.
And once more wrough, Nation from our jsrrinE
States.
His massive genius sts,nined the flood OF wrath
Our uniaught armies felt his hardening power.
Scathiess he strobe along the bristling path.
Pucking with certain hand wars steey flower;
Leaving the field tn freedoms fullest dover,
Where AppaAchia's valleys lie serene
And their freed floods the vire praiFies pour
To the warm Gulf the embaitled bluffs between,
And common law aud just euvironed all the scene.
He felded all the wars majestic trend
Aud wrought amid its iercest fires the while.
Forcing with rapid strength what thing lac planned,
And on compelled unwilling viciOry's smile.
Alike wars aud hero; keeping still
The faith in which he fought disaster down;
Filling the labor that was victory's foil.
Who from the clouds that yelled her starry zone
Should in times passing bring the hero's we'll
earned crown.
His glowing will consumed opposing force
While moving silent ia its strong advance,
And summed the might that flowed from every
source,
Tentative stll Of time and circumstance
Dazzling the anxious foes awe-b blinded glance
While vAilng his impeustrable power;
Himself concernless In the confidence
That nils the man predestned to the hour
When the pRstg yvronsya asyaiust thaf atura
bear.
With solvent gaze he read the lines Of war
And saw their labyTinlhine folds unite
And with the fluent pose Of unmoored power
In unexpected fields Oft forced the fight
Making some contest that our wondering sight,
UncogniEant. held in amaze and fear
iii from the foriressed town. or piited hight
Or wooded fAstness, rose the soldiers cheer.
That with soul moving Joy oiled all tho smItten
air.
He answered all the unrelaXing claim
Olemnent command, yet shared the need
or praise that crowned his aIl-including fame
la strenuous honor with the soldiers deed;
Placing the subaltern In his own stead
Whose faithful service wrought the country's
veal;
Greatly obeying loves supernal creed.
And making envy cen impossible
6aiDsi one OF deeds so knit in just and kindly will
And when the ruddy sun Of triumph came
To light the way Of peaee's returning car,
He trod the enbeTs Of the combat's flame
And greatly gave the conquered ones a share
In the new lands inheritance from war;
Sending tie unlimited opes ia manhood forth,
With new allegiance, to their homes afar.
To own thenceforth, in answering lives, the
worth
ofhim who led the armies ofthe conquering North.
To him all hearts were turned from LincoIns tomb
As famed the light OF hopes alternate fire;
And, while the army melted Ga it's home
And peace bRde hates aud PASSIONS waves re-
tire,
The hero came where the white nights aspire
From whose dotned erests crowned freedom
greets the sun,
The cynosure Of all the lands desire.
From honor's burning scroll the elected one
To WELD the civic mace through freedoms broad
ened zone.
As some uunotieed oak, whose stubborn form
IL hidden by the forests leAfy crown,
Alone withsiands the cenIury-gathered storm,
Whose elementals strength sweeps wrA,hfu down.
In all its strength 'gainst natures beauty throuni
Again with springing green the slopes are filed.
As In their former grandeur's fair renown,
But the strong monarch. neyermore concealed
By weaker FORMS thenceforIh presIdes DER all the
field.
sTRosG GRANT, the grateful Nation lAuds thy name
Whose equal strength bore all her heavy stress,
And lights with love the story Of thy fame,
Who turned wars ssrrow To the Joy Of psaoe
God made thee mighty for his purposes
And wrapped thy mind with knowledge OF wars
art
Yet filled thy soul with human tenderness;-
For homes sweet Joys on drew his thoughts
apart,
And ehildhood's tripping feet danced In the war;
rior's heart.
Brave GRAsT, thy patient courage did amaze
Wars history: sthwart its Iiyid Sod
Rests the broad shadow Of thy glorious bays;
Nor grander course than thine hath warrior trod.
stih bowed thy crest TO liberty and God.
Thou lovedst not war, but mAn.-And peace d.
vine;
Yet oonquoring still. thy spirit meath the rod
Pa-sed.-by the cross sustained: aud in its sign.
UsooSoUERED GRANT thsn-lhen the victory was
thinei
The Nation bows her head in regnsnt grief
Aud pours her tears upon his honored shrine
Her full arm closing on the mighty sheaf
or his great deeds, the poets vibrant line
With hisiory's page shall ia his praises Join,
And c!angelrss justice shall hi. f4rae secure
All her vast bounds the country doth assign
For tomb Of him,-her mighty. stainless, pure
And all her fora sheds incense of sepuIture.
EPITAPH.
or soul too great to leave an enemy,
On him the country's benedietions are.
His work enlArges all her history;
Aud as the ages shall their gates unbar
His name shall bide among the honored there
And Ina loves lal .tyH fpF ave sl,,If 49,
Fame's rhythmic waves shall bear report AfAr,
And tell the story Of the man we mourn
Who siood-THE ARMY's CHIEF. THE NArIoN's
CHOSEN oBE. EARTHs CITIZEN.
ARMY OF THE JAMES.