Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-13

! rocks-d h0ly place.
lie knew the kindly art Of touching hid
| den springs
In human hearts, and saw the good in
| TREND ana Toe.
lie made as pass the gates Of war,
Ana showed the vision lair tho tar.
! or home again. and friends OF peace with
healing wings,
or an that stays and cheers when strife
ana hatred 80.
His pen like some enchanted wand I'M
loOsed the chain
That bound our thoughts, forgot awhile
were camp ana night.
a tIusttul guide. he led along
Tie sweet and pleasant lanes Of song
And Ger rOm1nce'S Wiue and Wond' rous
fair domain
And where the breezes blow from great
Parndssus height.
a man of many books, his friends the
gOodly band
Ofwhom the thoughts and words enrich
our English tongue,
The hauuts Of ChduCer fated field
Where Sydney fell with stainless
shield
He knew; he followed Spenser through
his fairy land,
Avon groves among.
VII
His ear was skilled to Milton's music,
vast, sublime:
The polished shafts of Dryden, Pope's
too h0neyed line
lie knew them well. but still his heart
HAD room for humber sons of art.
And ever loved to hear the sweet melo-
diOus rhyme
glory shine.
He shared the genial mirth of Addison
and Steele.
And loved Of GOldsmith's muse the pure
and limpd stream;
He found among them all a place,
Nor feared the froWn on JOhnsOn's
His many-sided nature taught him how
10 feel
At home with those who laugh, and
those who think and dream.
He knew the heart and lays Of Scotias
Whom genius proudly claimed as kins-
man. yea. as peer.
The wooded lakes where Wordsworth !
dreamed
And CoierIdge thought-they almost
Familiar Spots to one who could not find |
it hard
deemed them DEAR
X.
He followed Byron through. the sacred
ways of Greece,
And caught tn ETHEREAL note Of Sholleys |
mystic strain;
lie heard the princes bugle blast
That walked the great historic past.
And brought 20 STUMBLING knights and |
And made them i've and love, and act
Aeir parts again.
N.
With these immortal dead he ever loved
10 roam
The twilight fields of thousht-and,
fortunes happy choice,
In life he knew, and called him friend
Who taught the critics page 10 blend
His smiles with tears: he shared the
laurelled hermits home,
And learned the poets music through
the poets voice.
lie knew Virginia's Poe, the Christopher
of song,
who sailed DER rhythmic seas to men
before unknown
As fiIlcd the heart with sweetest awe.
His soul the battlefield of warning right
The AN" world TLI"7 It's failures marked, its
triumphs God alone!
Kill
our poets mind enriched by fellowship
with these.
He took the Gift Goo gave, the SatHeFed
fruits OF lore,
And serving art alone. not self.
Tnhceding Story, fame, or pelti
He only sought his loved Nirgnld's heart |
Win strains that linger though the
singer sing no more.
XIV.
o Alma Mater! many sons have learned
And brought their after laurels back
thy brOWs 10 grace.
On fields of our heroic strife,
In an the lofty ways of life,
They Ulaved q worthy part, and dear |
their names shall be
O awe thy minstrel son a warm and
tender place!
He loved thee well, and sang with open
heart thy praise,
who taught him wisdom, truth, and
fair exalted dreams;
His each melodiOus verse, like pofs,
Is pure as blush on simmer rose
Or maiden's check; the southern wind
with fragile branch and lily bloom no
senrler seems.
His mirrorod self We place on yonder
(Ah me! the form we knew 50 long
ago SO l0ngD
His eyes shall light the sacred fire
IN other hearts, shall wake desire
AS pure as dream OF Holy Grail, desire
oI ali
The minstrel taught when life vibrated
forth an song.
The portrait IS said to be an excellent
likeness OF the poet and was painted by !
Mrs Marietta Minnegerode Andrews. wife |
of the painter T.. Il. Andrews, director OF
the Corcoran Art Ga lery al Washing
ton. Mrs. Andrews is the granddaughter
Of the late Dr MinnegerOde, OF Rich
mOnd ana daughter of Captain Charles |
an officer IN the Confede-
rate service on General Fitz Lees stan.
This evening at 8 o'clock the jefferson |
and the Washington literary societies !
held their celebrations in the public hall
Mr. Joseph G. Taylor, of Virginia. pre- !
sided FOR the Jefferson Society and Mr. |
George r. Bagby OF Richmond, made |
the Grafton as winner % the orators |
medal The debater medalist was Mr.. H. |
RainhOld Rogers also OF Virginia.
Virginia got all of the honors OF the
Society. Mr.. IL. &. Nelson |
Was president. MIR. a. Leo Oberdorfer |
made the Grafton as orator medalist and !
Mr.. !. ID. Mitchell was DICTATOR medalst.
The Board NJ Visitors held its annual
meeting to-day
GRADUATES
The following are the graduates in medi-
cine and law:
Doctors Of Medlcine-Frederick A. As
serson New York n Y. .Iulian RQek- |