Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-03-25
CLEVELAND
BY Richard Watson Glider
and Memorial meeting Carnegie hall New York March u.s. 1881

He shrank from praise. this Supplemented man
Therefore we praise him! Yet, as heswould wish
Chiefly our praise not for the things he did,
But for his spirit in doing All, great heart,
And humble! Great and simple heart! forgive
The homage we may not Withhold! Strong soul!
Thou brave and faithful servant of the state
who labored day and night in little things,
No less than large, for the loved countrys sake
With patient hand that plodded while others slept!
Who flung TO the winds preferment and the future,
Daring to put clear truth to the perous test
Fearing no seattle if bat the people gained,
And happiest far in sacrifice and loss,
Yes happiest he when, plain i'm all mems sight
lie turned conemptuoue from the lure of place.
Spuruing the laurel that should crown success
SoiIed by surrender and periured soul
The people, Never once his faith dmmed
La them his countrymen; all, never once;
For if doubt shook him, twas but leeting mood
Though others wavered, never wavered he.
Though madness, like flood swept DER the land,
This way, now that; though love of pelf subdued
The civic conscience, still he held his faith,
Unfaltering, in mans true -heartedness,
And in the final Judgment of free men.
III.
Firm, with the powerful gentle with the weak,
His was the sweetness OF the strong! His voice
Took tenderness in speech with little folk
And he was pititul OF man and brute
SO, for the struggle with high things of state,
He strengthened his own heart with kindly deeds
His heart strengthened for stern acts of power
That, fashioned in the secret place of thought,
And in the lonely and the silent shrine
OF conscience, came momentous of the worlds
Built stronger the foundations of the State
Upheld the word of honor no whit less
'Twixt nation and nation than twixt man and man;
Held righteousness the one law of the world,
And higher set the hopes of all mankind
".
Lonely the heart that listens to voice
Save that of Duty; lonely he how oft
When, turning from the smooth, advised path,
He climbed the chill and solitary way;
Wondering that any wondered, when so clear
The light that led-the light of perfect faith
And passion for the right that fire of heaven
Wherein self dies, and only truth lives ont
Lonely how oft when, with statesman's art,
He waited for the fullness of the time,
And wrought the good he willed by slow degrees
And in due order conquered wrong wrong
Lonely how oft when mid dark dsesteem
lie moved straightforward TO a longed-for goal,
Doing each day the best he might, with vision
Firm fixt above, kept pure by pure intent
"
Some spirits built the shocks of the world
To nterpose against blind currents of fate,
or wrath, or ignorant purpose, a hxt will;
Against the bursting storm front of calm
As, when the Atlantic RACES, some stern elm
Hurls back the tempest and the ponderous wave
So stood he firm when lesser wills were broken;
So he endured when others failed and fell;
Bearing, in silent suffering the stress
The blame the burden of the fateful day
VI.
So single and so simple was his mind,
So unperturbed by learned subtletises,
And devout of justice and the right
His thought, his act, held something of the primes
The wide, vision of the ancient day
Prophetic; even touch of natures force
Large, elemental, healing; buildei well
On the deep bases of humanity.
VII.
Q, strong oak riven! tower of defense
Fallen! 0 captain of the hosts struck down!
o cries of lamentation- turning swift
To sounds of triumph and great victoriesl
For into the hands of one of humble soul
Great trust was laid, and he that trust fulfilled.
So he who died accom- lished mighty deeds,
And he who fought has won the infinite peace,
And sleeps enshrined in his own peoples hearts,
And in the praise of nations and the world,
And rests immortal among the immortal Great