The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-11

ears" Roll I'D the map Of Europe"
was his bitter cry to his niece when he
! heard the news. and after that he
( hardly spoke again
Among the grandest farewell speech
! es of soldiers and patriots must ever
be enrolled the famous words of Sir
{ Richard Granville. which TennysOn has
beautifully versihed. They run thus in
/ the prose of the original: Here die 1.
Richard Granville. with a joyful and
( quiet mind. for I have ended my life
as true soldier ought to do. that has
[ fought for his country, queen, religion
and honor. Whereby my soul most joy
full de0arteth out of this body, and
shall always leave behind IL an ever
lasting fame of a valiant and true SOL
der. that has done his duty as he was
bound TO do" The noble words are
full OF the soldiers ideal-to die fight
ing: there is a story of the death Of a
GREAT earl of Northumberland in the
eleventh century. which shows how
deeD-set this instinct is: What a
shame" he says. for me not to have
been permitted to die in so many bat
ties. and to end thus by a cows DEATH
At least put on my breastplates grid on
my sword. set my helmet on my head,
my shield in my left hand. my golden
battle-ax in my right, so that
great warrior like myself may die as
a warrior" One may set the two
speeches side by side though there are
five centuries between them. as typi-
cal expressions of the same spirit.
But the approach of death in the
Quietness of home draws more gentle
and peaceful utterances from religious
souls. Isaak Walton's description OF
the death of Hooker is classical: rich
ard Hooker meditated, when he lay a
dying. the number and nature OF the
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order without which peace could not
be in heaven. And, oh, that it might
be so on earth" 1t was a serene end
ing to a serene life Surely we may
place side by side with it the account
of the last hours of TennysOn, as it is
given US in his life: Suddenly he
gathered himself together, and spoke
one word about himself to the doc
torS'Death?'-and DR.. DabbS bowed
his head, and he said, That's WE'LL and
later on he exclaimed: I've opened it,
Perhaps the Shakespeare opened at
Hang there like fruit, my soul,
Till the tree fall.
Or perhaps one of his last poems was
running in his head-The Silent Open
er OF the-Gate.' He then spoke his
last words, a farewell blessing TO my
mother and myself" So the present
Lord Tennyson describes the solemn
passing" of his great father from the
stage of life.
'.On mourra seul,' said Pascal, and
some among the strongest and great
est feel most the isolation, the loneli-
ness and the utter weakness Of their
last hours. 1t is a melancholy picture
that is preserved for US OF the last
hours Of Thomas Carlyle, as he sat
on a chair, solitary and wretched, in
the middle of his room, patheticaIly
70 at
TO die 1 want a mother" The great
Napoleon required. too. to the thought
of his mothers tenderness: 'Ah, ma
man Letiziai" he is said to have MUIR
INJURED constantly as he lay dying at
st. Helena, so far away from his ma
tive island. 1t Is strange to think OF
these two great self-assertive men be-
ing so humbled by the approach Of the
of sages and emperors alike.
Among the last words of the great
thinkers of the earth will ever be reck-
oned the More light More light" OF
Goethe 1t may be that he only meant
that the blinds should be drawn, that
he might see more clearly; but still.
the famous words have a haunting
sound that makes one fancy there was
more in them than that.
Such are some last sayings ouIled
from a wide field. Here Is a death
scene that in its silence is full Of elo-
quence- 1t is from the life OF DR.. Lfv-
ngston:
''They found his candle burning at his
bedside, and Livingston kneeling there
as if in prayer. his face in.his hands,
but he was dead
The parting benediction OF Gladstone
as he gazed for the last time at the
faces of his countrymen assembled to
greet him: God bless you all, and the
and that you love-" will no. doubt be-
come historical. 1t was the land that
you love, and not the I'VE" love, for
ne felt that for him there remained
only the more abiding kingdom. His
actual last recorded words-"kindness,
kindness to have been an ac-
Of the universal SYM
oathy and sorrow that attended his
asst -GlObe-Democrat