The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-13

for lecturing and that he would retire from
the business as soon as Cedarcroft was
finished" He Travelled over Europe, and at 49,
having published Views Afoot," returned
to be an editorial writer on the Tribune. and
the associate OF Stedman, Stoddard O'Brien
and the rest Yet all the while the beauti-
ful valley of tho Brandywne was in his
memory and whenever he thought Of quiet
and repose his heart turned thither. A.
Mr.. Stoddard has told the story Of the
Saturday evenings when Taylor and Stedman
and Willis and O'Brien and himself gathered
in his, room for literary talk, He had sto,
beautiful and pathetic voice" writes Stod-
dard "and an enthusiasm for poetry"
1t was from here Taylor wrote to his Mary
Agnew: Would to heaven could drop down
in Kennel for an hour or two. these delicious
evenings am shut up in brick walls and
like Sternes starting. can't get out
When the cornerstone Of Cedarcroft was
lald, he personally placed it with great cere-
! mony, Under it was an original poem. TO
be read 400 years hence by someone who mas
never heard OF me. +" II broke the neck oil
bottle on the stone, poured a libation TO all
good Lares and Penates and then gave the
workmen cakes and ale,' Thus Cedarcroft
was huilded for himself and for others.
He moved into it Or aming of years OF peace
and hours in which the greatest OF ms poeLS
conceptions might be realized Here Would
bo no outer distractions no hurry OF trayel.
no need of lecturng. no meetings ana part
ings There was little church at LonsWood,
where he lies buried To this ne USED 10 go
4 on Sunday morning. with his young sweet
| heart on his arm and afterwards. when the
/ love DAYS and the bride who made them
! glorious had gone the ways OF an tnlnss
earthly he remembered and wrote
when buds have burst the silver sheath
| And shifting pink and gray and goio
| steals DER the woods. while ialr heheath
The blooming wales UNFOLD
Then from the jubilee turn
To other Mays that l have seen;
When more respondent blossoms puFheu
And statelier woods were green
For she whose softly murmured name
The music OF the month expressed
Walked by my SIDE IN hpiy s"A'le
OF girlish love confessed
Tn 1878 ba was appointed minister TO Ger
many and in October OF the following year
his body was brought back TO new ioi iis
where n lay in state, and was then removed
- Cedarcroft and thence to Longwood GENE.
tery Five thousand people gathered aooul
his grave TO do him honor ana listener III y
stedman's last farewell to MS Hl.n a cod I'd.
was fieeting day but the rstps anu md hi,
| he lnved and sung are sun Lpsre snu ~
r No Is ono no be CHERISHED with priat
Nv his countrymen, His song u ~
. Camp" written after the Crimean va, ne,
a pathetic appropriateness now ana 'o ud iI
anew many heart IN ouio "s ihc seas. one,
that which is akin 10 us aefose ''s "'''
called 'Merrle England
.Giya ns a songi" the soldiers erie"'
ma outer trenches guarding, M.
when the heated guns Of camps aiheu
Grew weary OF bombardlns'
They lay along the batteries or I'one
| Raraath the smoking CdhhNHf A.
. p,ava hearts from Severn and from oHu'
! Ana from The banks OF shannon
r,.r IN. pause--s gusrdsman said'