The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
Ueekly Constitutions Zig Three


| TINE saddest and the sweetest things
| ever written We're concerning death
| L and love Montgomery, Scott, Long
| fellow, Lndley and Rourdllon and many
| others found their tenderest sentiments
on these subjects Lindley wrote his
sweetest gems on the death OF a young
lady. Just such another would he have
written had he lived until our loved one
died.
Thou art gone from our gaze like a
beautiful dream. 49,
Thy grace and thy beauty no more Will
be seen:
Tho lost to sight. to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain;
The only hope our hearts can cheer
The hope to meet again"
Longfelow says:
1.-THE air is fun of farewells to the dy-
Ing
And MORNINGS for the dead.
There is no hock, however watched and
tended.
| But one dead lamb is there:
| There is no fireside. however defended.
| But has one vacant chair"
Montgomery says:
Friend after friend departs.
| Who has not lost a friend?
| There is union here of hearts
| That finds not here an end"
And Longfelow says. by way of con-
| solatlon:
There is no death. What seems so Is
| transition;
This life of mortal breath
I Is but a suburb of the life elysian.
| Whose portal we call death"
| All this Is very solemn and very sad,
| but it has its counterpart when they
wrote of love. Scott says:
| On peace love tunes the shepherds reed.
In war he mounts the warriors steed,
| In courts is seen in gay attire,
In hana.ets dances on the green.
Love rules the camp the court, the grove
And men below and saints above,
| For love is heaven and heaven is loye.
| solomon says. Love is as strong as
death" and God from necessity is love"
and Love thy neighbor as myself
And Wordsworth says, "A mothers
| love is the hottest thing alive"
A mothers love! l was watching the
eagerness with which our nelghbor, MIS-
Munford, was cherishLpg the memory OF
| her lost daughter, the sweet girl who
had charge of the library books com
mittee and whose memory now seems
like beautiful dream-a dream to us, but
not to the mother who never will forget.
When the Cherokee Club prepared to
make memorial for Mary she pleaded
for the privilege of placing it where
Mary was wont to sit and have sweet
coupanionship with those she loved. Her
beautiful home was nothing land money
was nothing She said the library Is III
debt five or six hundred dollars. Please
let me pay it off, for Mary felt like 1t
was her debt Let me have the floor
vanished and have chairs bought in
stead of benches and I want some nicer
tables for Marys sake. Please let me
| have a memorial for Mary here and give
| 1t her name-The Mary Munford Me
mortal library?" And so it was done
Who could refuse a mothers tears for
the memory Of her loving daughter, and
So 1t was done and the sign over the
door Will be The Mary Munford Memorial
| library. But this is not all of a mothers
| love. She Is going to buy the books that
| Mary would have bought and make a
donation each and every year.
Now, good people. all who tarry or
pass through Cartersville stop a little
while and see what love has done-a
=, mothers love I wish that committee
appointed on Mr. StovalTs bill would
come and see this model library and
go back and plead for that $1,000 where
with TO build the Winnie Davis Memorial
| hall. The patriotic women want 1t and
80 do the veterans whose time is nearly
| ont. May it be your last and best work
for Miss Winnie. whom we all loved.
BILL ARP