The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-04-11

terature. from the graduates speech eV
a commencement day 20 kuius ca
hoate's euloglum on Daniel webster o'
|, Dartmouth. Tragedy and comedy 81
.ere born In the festivals Of Dionyslns ~
{ Athens. The lyric and eleglae anu
pic poetry OF Greece Eve hundred n
ears before Christ has It's echoes IN q
ne Tennysons. Longiellows and BY 0
.nts OF eighteen and nineteen hun
lred years after Christ There Is not an !
Effective pulpit or editorial chair OF
professors room or cultured parlor or
intelligent farmhouse today In America
Dr. Europe that could not appropriately
employ Paurs ejaculation and say
am debtor 10 the Greeks" -.
The fact Is this. Paul had got much Of
his oratorical power Of expression rom
the Greeks That be had studied ihe'f
literature was evident. when standing
In the presence Of an audience OF Greek
scholars on Mars Hin. which oyerlooks
Athens. he dared 10 quote from one oil
their own Greek poets either Cleanthus
or Aratus. declaring. "As certain also
Of your own poets have said. Tot We
are also his offspring Aud he made
accurate quotation. Cleanthus. one OF
the poets. having written:
For we thine offspring are. All
things that creep
Are but the echo Of the voice divine.
And Ara,us. one OF their own poets.
had written:
Doth care perplex7 Is lowering dan
ger nigh?
We are his offspring. and to Joyo We
n.y."
Il was rather a risky thing FOR Paul
10 attempt 20 quote exiemporaneoualy
from a poem 10 a language foreign TO
his. and before Greek scholars, but
Paul dld Il without siammering. and
then Acknowledged before the most dis
tlnguishcl audience on the planet bis
. Indebtedness 20 the Greeks. crying ou
In his Grafton. AS one Of your owl
!, poets has said"
Furthermore. all the world Is obi
!, gated TO Hellas more than u can eve
= pay for its heroics In the cause OF lib
= erty and right. United Europe toda
u had not better think that the Greek
~ will not nght There may be falling
- back and yaclllations and temporar
y defeat. but II Greece Is right all IL
~ rope cannot put her down, The oth'
~ nations. before they open the port-hol'
~ OF their men-of-war against that sma
kingdom had better read OF the bait
~, OF Marathon, where ten thousand Al
u enlans. led on by Mlltiados. triumph
4" over one hundred thousand Of the
10 enemies Al that time In Greek counD
N OF war ave generals we're for beginnil
'ne the battle and Ave were against
Callmachus presided a, the council
Ell war and had the deciding vote. a
OF Miltlades addressed him. saying.
the 1T now rests with you, Callimach
10 either TO onslave Athens. or by insurI
put her freedom, TO win yourself an imm
ieT' Of Marathon. where ten thousand Al
i've mans. led on by MIltlades. triumph
the danger as they are az this moment
VS. they bow the knee 10 these Meies. q
IN are to be given up to Hipplas. and !
Inc know what they will then have TO q
Inc fer. but n Athens comes victorious
ana NJ this contest. she has e IN her pol
can 10 become the drst city OF Greece. Y
ana vote Is 10 decide whether We are
pets loin battle or not. II We DO not br
ONE on a battle presently. some factious
pic trlrue will dlsunite the Athenllns
eek the city will be betrayed 70 the Me
% hut n we hrht before there Is anyth
arih rotten IN the state Of Athens. bell
rge; that proylded the gods viii give
lins field and no favor. we are able 10
,ven the best " ~ IN the engagement
lase That won the vote Of Calllmael
hi'a and soon the battle opened, and In
ina run the men Of Miltlades fell upon
'atea Persian hosts. shouting. "on' SOM
AMI Greecel Strike Tor the freedom OF
b on country Strike for the freedom
, 10 your children and your wives, for
not shrlnes Of your fathers gods, and
she'd the sepulchres OF your sires' All,
hieh are now staked on the strife W
the only one hundred and ninety
raid Greeks fell. six thousand four hum
enes. Pcrslans lay dead upon the field,
lume many OF the Aslatlc hosts who 100
'gisn the war vessels In the harbor we're
meas sumed In the shipping. Persian OPT
uaSe sion was rehuked, Grecian liberty
rama achieved. the cause Of civilization
but advanced. and the western world
,uase an nations have felt the heroics'
me there been no Mlltlades, there u
T. 'A' have been no Washington.
Gus Also at Thermopylae, three hun
. are Greeks. along a road only vide en-
Tor a wheel track between a moul
oios'- and marsh. died rather than SUR
'''.u' or. Had there been no Thermop
'o u" there might have been no Bunker
's''a' The echo Of Athcuian and Spartan
'N''' roles was heard az the gates OF |
y. ~, now. and Sebastopol, and BanI
=, ~. burn. and Lexington, and Geiiys
~, '", English Magma Charta, and Dec
NV, lion Of American Independence
81" the song Of Robert Burns ont.ue
Mans a Man for a That were
-. the lonr-continucd rcvcrbcrouo
49,. what was said and done twenty
-. turtles before 90 that little Kin
~. that the powers OF Europe are mo-
~ ~, posing upon. Greece having asal
.amIn shown that ten men in the
are stronger than "a hundred m
..-,.5 ihe wrong. the horoIga % Lcon.a.
|. 49,. / Ar.suJJs and rhgms,oglg VII
~. cease theIg mission until thc As
NJ, on earth ls as free as God made
-. There is not on either side OF q
!, a. antlc today a republic that