St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-03

aheld,
How frequently their foolish skins they'd
" soak.
Let not the justice mock their useful toll,
Or thirty days their destiny obscure,
Or grandeur hint with diSdalnful smile.
AT vague Suggestions OF the Keeley cure.
Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,
II memory DER their tomb no trophies
raise,
Where thro' the long-drawn glass and cool
The word ''Gesundheitr' swells the toast
of praise.
Can earthen mug or animated jag
Back 10 his mansion call the delegate?
Can HOnor's voice make stiff limpen rag.
Or Flattry change the leer upon his patel
Perhaps in this abandoned shed is laid
some boom once pregnant with free silver
Booms that a vast assemblage might have
swayed,
Or walked to truthfulness the chronic liar.
But Vict'ry to the Tiger her full page,
Rlch with the spoils of Office, did unroll
Inc old snap deal provoked her noble rage
AND froze the genial current OF her SOUL.
XIII.
Full many Gray of farmer-like demean,
The dark. unfathOmed territories bear;
Full many boom was born to blush unseen
AND waste its fragrance on Chicago air.
Some Tam'ny Croker that with dauntless
breast,
The little tyrant of his gang withstood;
mute, lnglorious German here did rest
A Cochran with his eloquential flood.
The applause of listning galrries to COM
mand,
The threats of Henry Watterson to despise
To scatter plenty DER smring land,
BY running Grover for the nations prize,
Groves lot forbade, nor circum scribed alone
His growing virtues, but his sins confined,
FORBADE to truckle Tor White house throne,
And shut the gate of friendship on his kind.
No struggling aualms of conscience he to
To stay the verdict of excuses lame.
Ne'er heaped the shrine of luxury and pride.
With incense Kindled at Protectors flame
Far from the madding crowd-the wigwam
r roar,
His sober wishes never deigned to stray.
Along the cool sequestered Buzzard>s shore.
He kept the noseless tenor of his Way.
Yet cen his name from insult to protect.
Upbuild a frail memorial on high,
The booms of Hill and Boies despoiled and
wrecked,
Implore the passing tribute of sigh.
Palmer's name and years. spelt by the unlet->
tered Muse.
The place of never-ending fame supply.
ana manV q moss ha
To teach this Rip Van Winkle how to die.
For who, to dumb forgetfulness prey,
a pleasing senatorial seat resigned,
should leave such berths to wage a bitter
fray,
Nor cast one longing, Gng'rlng look behind.
To some fond hope an Office seeker ties,
A good, fat plum his closing life requires
Fen from the tomb the voice of such chap
cries.
Fen IN their ashes live their wonted fires.
For thee who. mindful of Hills boom now
dead.
Dost in these lines his artless tale relate
If, chance. by contemplation led
Some kindred spirit shall inquire his fate.
Happy some New York Democrat may say:
loft have we seen him at the peep of
dawn,
To meet friend Croker on the state house
lawn.
"Hard by yon wood now smiling as in scorn,
Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would
rove;
Now dropping. woful wan like one forlorn.
Or crazed with care Or crossed in hopeless
love.
''One morn missed him on the accustomed
Along the heath an near his fay'rite treel
Then Grover came, nor yet beside the riu.
Nor up the lawn, nor up the tree, was he.
XVII.
THE next, June 23d, in sad array
Out from the wet wigwam we saw him
borne;
Approach and read (for thou canst ready the
Graved on the Tigers tail, now shapeless
shorn.''
XVIII.
(The Epitaph).
Here was man who didn't want the earth
a bachlor to Fortune and to Fame wei,
Fair Politics frowned not on his humble
Yet Melancholy marked him for her own.
Large was his booty and his soul sincere.
His party did a recon- mpeuse as largely send:
He gave the Democracy Gail he had) a steer.
He gainedfrom Tam'ny (all he wished)
mo further seek his merits to disclose,
Or speak his frailties i'll abundant kicks:
Let them alike in silent hope repose,
Till Father Time calls 1882
M j. DoNNELLY.