Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-08-03

That woke the slumbcring echoes round.
And the burrowing mink and otter hid
In their holes the tangled roots amid.
| Lords OF their limitlcss domain,
Or Hill and dale, of mount and plain,
| The wild Things dreamed not of the
hour
When they should own their Masters
| But he came at last! with a sturdy hand
| And II voice of deep and stern command,
With Il stately r,sence, IL mein that
told
| His heart was as true as 1t was bold,
| lie came to his own and proclaimed his
sway,
and the forest fed from his glance away.
| The rehtful heir of the regions round
M golden circlct his forehead crowned.
But he wore his strength with q kngly
grace
place.
| lie came at last! And with him came
| Mntron and mother, maiden and DAME
| Strong az he in the strength of prayer,
| And tho might of hope % do ana dare!
But nh. There WIS ono who dwelt alone
Unto whom we raise this votive stone
ono who made for her birds IA nest
Under your tall cliffs shcltering crest,
| Where her name shall Lc gravcd, and
her fame endure
AS long as the rock stands strong and
| sure,
Full seven-scorc years, Could they this
day return
How would their Utmost hearts within
| them burn
| How would the earnest, thoughtful, uucs.
| tioninr eyes
Find jnarscls in the earth, and seas, end
skies,
Yet could our voices reach the dead
VIII use dust
SO long has been their Country's sacred
| trust,
This truth would be with greatest wondc,
franght,-
That they arc heroes to our eyes and
thought.
For they were men who never dreamed
of fame;
They did not toll to make themselves -
namc;
They little fancicd that when years had
passed
And the long centuries had died at last
Another age should make their graves IL
shrine,
And fresh green choplets for their mem
orics twino.
They simply strovc. as all of us may
strive.
Full, earnest lives in sober strength TO
live:
They dli tho duty nearest to their hand
Subducd wild nature as at Gods COM
| man1
Laid tn" broad acres open to tho sun,
And mn,lo fair homes in forests dark
AMI dun,
Built churches. founded schools, estab-
lshcd laws.
Kindly and Jus. and true to freedom :
cause
Resisted wrong, ana with stout hands and
hearts
In war, as well rs peace, played well
their parts.
Their men were brave: their women pure
and true:
Their sons ashamed no honest work to
do:
And while they dreamed no dreams of
being great.
They did great deeds and conquered hos
lie fate
We lnId them. VIC praise them. we bless
: then. to-day;
At their graves rs their right grateful
, homage we pay:
And tho lanrel-crowncd Prosen comes
proudly at last
To knee hy ctIc side at the shrine of tho
Past,
llark, \ breath of faint music a murmur
eff song
a form Of strange beauty is floating
along
. on the soft summer air and the future
draws near
/, With Il light On her young brow UNI
Swallowed and clear
Two garlands she bears in the hands that
, not yet
Have toiled meath the burden and heat
7, cf the day:
10, both are of amcranth fragrant and
wet
$ With the dew Of remembrance. and fade
less AWAY,
= Oh. well may We hush our vain babblings
and wait.
r lie who merits the crown wears it sooner
~ late.
On the brow of the Present the grave
. cf the Past
The wrcaths they have earned shall rest
@ surely mt last
JULIA G.. r. DORR
< JUDGE STAFFORDS ADDRESS,
4 Tho address OF Judge Wendell T.
Stafford was Il masterpiece of scholar
ly and eloquent Oratory, n rare express
{, sion Of the ideals of true American
S ism. Judge Stafords delivery was
powerful and magnetic and he held
his hearers in hrcathlcss expectancy
from the beginning of his address until
s the conclusion of the last sentence. lie
was frequently interrupted by applause
which at the conclusion of his Grafton
= became an ovation. The address was
as follows:
When God is going to make the world
" n great man he begins by making woman
for his mother. | do not say he could
not brns, forth Il brave and mighty sor
from a weak and tmid mother: but
think it would trouble you tn tini an
instance where he ever did. There was
never II great State that was not great
in it's women. The French king said IL
am the state" He lied. Tho State was
never born in palace. 1T never Vaullt ed
itself upon Il throne. 1t is born in tho
cottage; and it bears the throne upon
its massive shoulders. rs the elcphan,