The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-14

rsrx T-scs 1esped 90 swell tbs a-nses q
tbs Casoa VIII -. bss. Hood 81 eiu-
Gated MASSACHUSETTS, His soa- nov sn
abe r1ezher of the Supreme cozTt o.
Massachusetts,, wss . captala II Aasss-
ckzsesss regiment and v2 wczscsc It
Arsietam. aad the poe. describes his
seareh fs- his wounded boy n his des1EaE-
Ia s<sscle. My Hunt fsr she Captain
We hzve Gales Dr. Holmes g-sAE cssi-
gen Of the xorsd- he MA he wrote the
Eness poem cs the civil var &C "Broshsr
gozsthssss LzEsenf for Sister Caroline.
March g 1851 Is there any other great
poez q tie civn var thai is equally az
Ezired sy sossh Cz-clEna ana MsssAch1-
sestsf We quote It's prophetic lines:
a.Tn wssn "a The ssrsss. when ss.s f1-y 10 pzst.
TAe3r fztu-es uu.t Aow n eEs eAsazel 81 LAST,
As tAe sorrenrs t1zt rasA ifoza t1e mountains
Eosl raIsgIsa In yesee through ire Fs-lsys BE-
OR xasaa il river. lass. oeeza AID sky.
MAJ sxs4xs not ths media, Nas1 God z7skss TIE
TaosxA esrEessd ~fth suipaur. faozsh caoTsn
with ssss1.
The ssgs area viii h<1gaten, sas waters VIII
hsal~
The generous. large and liberal nature
Of Holmes syEp2shies 10 shown IN his
protest against the ignorant. vile race
prejudice against the Jews IN his poem Ct
AT the Pantorrime." TIE entire cathc-
Icsty Of Holmes nsiure is shown in the
fact that he was selected 10 welcome
Dickens: TO honor the memory Of Bcrns
and Moore; to welcome Prince Napoleon:
70 welcoms the Grand Dake Alexis Of
Russia; fhe Chinese and japanese en-
bessies- So across the water Holmes vas
welcomed as . true American. who could
fairly enjoy England without being false
liz MS love for America
DR.. Holmes wrote the last pages Of his
over the Tescnpsr when be bad clean
passed bis sIss birthday; nevertheless. IL
lacked little of the spice and freshness OF
the '"Antocrat" papers OF 1857, and Was
quite equal 10 il In humane and genial
wisdom. In his 'sOver the Tearups."
treating Of . woman much sought in mar
risge, yet always refusing suitors. he says:
az do not believe . nature % large, %
rich in affection. 10 going 10 fall, de
:eated Of its best inheritance Of life.
ike q vine which Ends no support for its
tendrils 10 twine around, and 50 creeps
along the ground from which nature
mesnt that love should lifs II" And in
another place he says: This drinking Of
brandy neat. may remark. ia not quite
30 bad as it looks. Whisky or rum taken
unmixed from q tumbIer Is . knock-down
blow TO temperance, bat the little thimble-
sal Of brandy, or Chartreuse, or Mara
nose OF teetotaIisn." man who, when
past 81, can write in this charming. youth
ful spirit was certainly q very rare and de-
Eghtfal creature
No man ought TO die other than did our
splendid singer, Holmes. by 80 slow,
gradual. almost imperceptibie decay Of the
bodily powers that the man simply drops
his head gradually upon his breast and
the angel Of sleep IL married TO tie angel
OF death. That is. he died of no particu-
lar disease; he slowly filckered out like q
splendid Gre whose back log is burned
ont. whose fuel Is not replenished, and
whose glowing Goals 60 out ons by one
until all 10 ashes where once the danes OF
youth filed the word with warmth and
light and shot sspiringiy 10 the sky.
The spirit Of this rare man was always
youthful and gay from boyhoo1 10 old
age. The spirit Of the boy was expressed
By the old man when he wrote:
Why liHger round the sunksn wrecks
hers old Armadas found their graves7
Why slrIabst on the sleepy deeks
While foam aud elash the angry wavesr
Up When the storra-blAst reDds the clouds
Aud winged With ruin sweeps the gale.
Young feet must Climb The Quiverlnx snfouds.
Young hands must reef the bursting sail.