Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-07
Bob Grows Eloquent.

GOV. Iaylor was the prlnclpal or
ator at a memorial service held in
honor of the late Senator Vance, al
Ashland, N. g., aud his address was a
very eloquent one. Among other
things be said:
There is a mighty stream whose
waters are as warm as summers
day, which flows noseless as the SUM-
light through the cold and turbulent
waters Of The ocean. 1t carries on it's
heaving current warmth and health
and life to half the world. It weaves
for England chaplet of verdure and
flowers; it crowns green Erin With the
shamrock and the rose, filings a man,
tie of perpetual beauty on the vine
clad hills of France. Its soft airs lin.
ger about the Orkney Isles aud make
them cluster of sunny jewels in the
midst of inhospitable Northern seas,
and still bearing in its bDsom that
kindlier nature born OF brighter
climes and breathes in mercy on
shores that touch the frozen zone.
1t isthe majestic gulf stream, the We
hicle of the sums life-giving power 1t
is the smile of God upon the waters,
which warns the seas and makes the
earth blossom like the rose.
1t is the symbol of the lives of men
like him whose memory we honor to.
day, men whose warm and genial
spirits meet aud mingle together like
the waters Of the gulf stream, and
flow On through the cold and
troubled ocean of life, weaving the
chaplet of joy for the brow of hu.
manity Growing our race with bless
ings, finging the mantle of love up.
on mankind and breathing hope and
happiness to the whole world.
1t is this glorious gulf stream of
generous and gentle souls which has
given to civilization its flower gardens
of literature. Its verdure and bloom
of poetry and art and rapturous
music, its liberty and it's religion.
Its war breath woke the Grecian civ,
ilization into life which gave to i'm.
mortality the Had of Homer and the
songs of sappho. 1t inspired the
wonderful art of Phidias and the
burning eloquence of Demosthenes,
1t moved upon the mighty brain of
Plato who turned the lens of philoso
ply and reason towards heaven and
caught glimpses of the ouly true and
living God. 1t kissed sun crowned
Italy and encircled the Roman EN-
pire with halo of glory. 1t impelled
Michael Angelo to chisel his
dreams from the marble, and Raph
ael to spread his visions of beauty in
immortal colors upon the canvas. 1t
toucht d the beautiful land of the
Rhine and Mozart and Mendelssohn
and Schubert and all the great mas.
tiers Of the fatherland turned the air
into music, and made joyous the |
homes and hearts of every land with
its MARBLES and murmurs and the ebb |
and flow of its silver tides 1t made
France the nursery of genius in
poetry in eloquence, in sculpture aud
in painting
Old England received its glorious
baptism and gave to the world Spar.
adise Lost" and Hamlet" and the
richest literature in all the tide of
time. 1t warmed the hearts Of the
pioneers in the wilderness of the new
world, and the stars twinkled to the |
music of the fiddle and the bow in
the log cabin of our fathers. And |
thus itcheered them on from camp to
cottage, and from cottage to mansion
from forest to waving fields and from
waving fields to mighty cities until |
It sets the world ablaze with light !
Liberty was born and the grea. Re
public rose beautiful as the dream of |
PericIes, magnificent as temple Of
the gods. The joyous tide of i'm
mortal spirits who have fashioned and
moulded our institutions and directed
our country in the path of its glorious
destiny is sweeping on to eternity.
No sweeter spirit ever mingled in
its flood than That which stole away