The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-03-14
"After Many Days."


Above the boy, and brought the hour
In which an angel passing by
Dropped some strange seed, all brown and dry
Into his small unconscious hand,
Saying, Go, SOW it through the land
lie sowed it in the city streets,
Where wrong in deadly conflict meets
With righteousness. 1t sprung to life.
And in the pauses of the strife
Uplifted first the blade, the leaf.
And then the promise Of the sheaf
That, ripening slowly through the years
And harvested with toll and tears
And half destroyed by craft and hate,
Was yet the seed that sowed the hate
These were the years of the right hand
OF the Most High, and this the land
The alpha of the states-that threw
a second banner to the blue:
And7on it's white folds, fair and plain
Men read the righteous Law of Maine
Along the line Of rugged rock
That crowds to meet the breakers shock:
Across the hills of singing pine;
Across the silent lakes that shine
Like sapphires on a silver thread
Where great Katahdn lifts his head
The fortunes of the state from naught:
Where in net Of highways stand
The homes and cities of the land:
Ger inland fields and sunny isles
The seed of God in fruitage smiles.
The seed was borne to other sod
BY wings and winds prepared of God,
1t sowed our battlefields: it fell
Where men had reared the gates of hell.
And women watched through heat and cold
Each heaven-planted seed unfold
And lift its little leaf and blade
In the spring warmth their love had made
They fed and fostered it through years
With breath of prayer, and rain of tears.
Until the plains and mountains passed
It touched the circling seas at last
And now: The breath OF God has blown
The holy seed through every zone;
And royal men who breathe the breath
And do the deeds that conquer death,
Are sewers going forth to SOW
The seed Of seventy years ago.
What of the child: Though he was born
At daybreak in the century morn,
He lived to see it's wheeling sun
Descend upon a victory won
roi Iue fouHu "Oflu. Inc SOlden light
About his head has changed to white
And, like a 'crown of glory now
Rests on the Grand Old Man-Neal Dow
The W. G.. T. L. have honored
Neal Dow by setting apart his
birthday, March 20, as a red letter
day.
The Grand Old Man still lives
in the hearts Of many who learned
to love and honor him for his
righteousness, loyalty, staunch
principles and active life.
Mrs. L. NJ. n. Stevens in writ.
ing of him says his father, wise
good man, assured his friends that
Neal made arguments for prohibi-
ton before he was six years old.
Some claim there is nothing in
a name, but one of Neal
-Dow's ancestors was named Hate.
evil and he hated evil. At ban.
quet held for the fire department
when he was chief engineer he was
asked TO respond to the toast.
''brandy and water, water for the
fire and brandy for the fire
men, Mr.. Dow responded in {
bright way and offered this toast il
closlng: Brandy and water
water extinguishes the fire anG
brandy extinguishes the fremen. ,
1t is stated by prominent law
yer that the original draft of the
law for prohibition in Maine fur
nished by Neal Dow was passed
without dotting an or crossing t.
His last message to the White
Ribboners before he was called t.
his reward was a message of conf
dence in the righteousness Of. ou7
cause and in the belief that victory
will surely come.
Working "a Hours Day.
There's no rest for those tireless lit
tie workers-Dr. Kings New Life Pills
Millions are always busy, curing torpit
liver, jaundice, billiousness, fever ant
ague., They Danish sick headache