Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-18

ora bic man, a kind friend. a good hus-si
band and father. generous to a6sfault,
fought still retain his commission.
| from the President to a caplaincy under
Colonel All len. ES3
$500 NoRA Wills LEWIS. q
MitcIe1rs. Va, January IS. 1902.
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j. e.. b. stuart.
We could not pause. while yet the noon
tide air
Shook With the cannonade's incessant
The funeral neral pageant fifty to prepare,
! A nations grief revealing.
The smoke above the glimmering wood
| land wide 5s
That skirts our southwark border with
! It's beauty.
Marked where our heroes stood and
fought and died,
For love, and faith and duty.
And still what time the doubtful strife /
| We might not find expression for our
We could but lay our dear. dumb warrior
down, II
! And grid US for the morrow.
| One weary year ago. when came a lull.
With victory in the conflicts stormy
| closes,
when the glad spring, all flushed and
First Knocked US with her roses.
with dirge and bell and minute gun we
Some few rites, an Inexpensive token
OF a great peoples pain,s to sJackson's
! shade
| In agony unspoken.
| No wailing trumpet. and no tolling bell.
| No cannon, save the battles boom re-
| ceding,
when STUART to the grave we bore
might tell,
with hearts all crushed and bleeding.
The crisis suited not with pomp. and she
Whose anguish bears the seal of con-
secration,
HAD wished his Christian obsequies should
be
Thus void of ostentation.
Only the maidens came, sweet iow'rs to
| Irvine
! I, Above his form, 50 still and cold and
painless;
/ Whose deeds upon our brightest record
| whose life and sword were stainless.
They well remembered how he loved to
dash
Into the fight, festooned from summer
bowers,
HOY like a fountains spray his sabre
flash
Leaped from a mass Of flowers.
And so we carried to his place Of rest,
All that Of our great Paladin vas iai NOR
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The cross and not the sabre on his
/ breast,
/ That opes the heavenly portal.
No more of tribute ulghtto US remain
But there vii! come time when Free 1
dom's martyrs.
| A richer guerdon of renown- shall gain,
1 Than CLEANS in stars and carriers.
I claim no prophets vision, but see
Through coming years, now near at
| hand, now distant,
/ Ny rescued country. glorious and free,
/ And strong and self-extstents
L hear from out that sunlit land, which
Beyond these clouds that gather darkly
DER us,
The happy sounds Of industry arise.
In swelling peaceful chorus,
| And minglng with those sounds, the
! glad acclaim
OF millions, undisturbed by wars aflic-s.
tions i
! Growing each martyrs never.dying name
/ With grateful. henedictions
1 In some far future garden Of delights,
/ Where; flowers shall bloom and song
birds sweetly MARBLE,
/ Art shall erect the statues Of our Knights
1 In living bronze and marble.
1 And none of all that bright, heroic
/ throng,'
4 Shall wear to far-off time semblance
grander;
Shall still be .decked Fitb fresher wreaths
4 Than LIS beloved commander.
The Spanish legend tells US of the Cid,
That after death he rode erect sedately
Along the lines, even as in life he old,
| In presence yet more stately.
And thus our Stuart, at this moment
/ TO ride out Of our dark and troubled
i story,
1 Into the region Of romance and dreams.
A realm Of light and glory.
And sometimes. when the silver pugles
blow, |
| That radiant form, in battle reappear-
SHAH lead his horsemen headlong on the
\ foe,
1 In victory careering!
!. JOHN r. T--oMPsON.
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EAsY-Go1NG PEERS.
Legislation In British House 81
4 Lords ROT over strenuous.
/ conmoners and educationists who. !
! watch the debates in the upper house are
amused by the easy-going methods Of |
the peers and the smaller Importance they
sat on their dignity than $is the fashion /