Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09

s#MaT@~-one rejecting MIN hltoKetheTt
thN ufhef according most enthusiastic
Meeapaance and exalted faith. hut
Ehage ear be no doubt whatever as TO
Ahasnlace held by the good gray poet"
Ill The hearts Of his friends, OF his
Aownspeople, Of all with whom he
GAME in personal contact during
hls gull active life. lie WAS
the peer OF the greatest the
friend 81 the most lowly, the sympa-
ahG1ar with the degraded and suffering
@nd The champion 81 the oppressed.
Mn loved. aud was beloved by children.
So ID befell that, on the sunny March
snnrn8ng when his body lay in simple
state IL the little cottage Of hickle
MErauk. ln the city Of Camden, New
Jexsev, where the last heroic years OF
hlM LIE had ebbcd away, continuous
stream Of people during four hours
paA@ed IN and out Of the door. coming
rwxesently % look their last on the
fmn@ III the superb old man, whom they
wmsw accustomed 10 call. In preference
10 nny other title. Friend Walt
Neua wagrr % My Captain" and Tho dooE.
yaga lilac iopur.
IL passfiyr neasures moulded co The nations
GaFsrsf hour
xHsy mAn.a eiaspod close with Lincolns must BE-
assF 70 chant aud rhyme.
EmKsi BpFins ioFgets ~ blossoms. and The birds
their paiTinggitne
IT,
Prairie broad. ihings auioehthonie. and the
gommoa leaves % grass.
email and large alike W yalue, hunsyed, tender.
sad OF cFash
atsxsea TIC tyro shaped large 10 freedom and
- sturdy untaught power:
EanAAsb u sgra,hca and robust Tisor. aud 1,
slfisea lhc present hour.
Ill
&nehtns falls imprisoned OF wonder 81 the spec
irNni 81 this muse
gsnasns iccundy OF sunlight shadow too, q
well can choose;
xfa visitor sscatns fnii.orbed upon the soul and
ininoai thoughts % thiurH
And Mho has an ear 10 listen hcass is docI
.EolaB strings,
~.
7hAses rhyme Of the drum.,ap. and q chan
fpf POOR Or braves
Herr q touch q sturdy manhood. here grae'
al smooth aud Huavr.
Nas@ mote u struck b. nature, does ii flnieaill
Hout
h gssa, Pan tho chord accepts The poet vi
not rule Il out
"
Now when sprinr,imn'H soft carCsscs brini
oacc more ihn ilisc's bloom.
Gmfgands fragrant with its odoF shall be lai
npou tomb,
where civilian and soldier may for ages paus
and pass,
AAd where The epitaph Of nature VIII be aimpl
leaves o. grass
0n q wooded hillside in the Hn rleigl
enmctery. two or three miles out east
ward from the city of Camden, Wal
Whstman's mausoleum had been built
under his personal supervision, durini
sha summer months preceding his las
aIlness Its massive vault OF granite
wssh front like the Cyclopeau door
way To- Agamemnon's tomb at Mycenm
30 depicted by DIR. Schliemann. TIL
dag being fine, throng numbering
faliy three thousand persons went on
til the cemetery 20 attend the buria
Hnw*ices, which consisted entirely @
abort addresses, interpreted wit
readings from the Bible, the classic,
and the writings of the dead poet him
self The trappings and the pomp {
wne were notieeably absent In shor
Ii was such funeral as beftte
one who had written SO bravel
ma he had about death. Th
naost notable address was that Of Co
Robert G.. Iugersoll. The other speal
@xs were DR.. Daniel q. Brinton, {
Philadelphia: DIR. Maurice Buckle,
rMnada CWhitman's biographer) an