Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-18
CLEVELAND.
Poem Read by Richard Watson Glider, the Cleveland
Memorial Meeting in Carnegie Hall

He shrank from praise, this simple hearted man
Therefore praise hml Yet he would wish.
Chiefly praise the things Doe did,
But for his spirit in doing An, 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 lsbored day and night things
No less than large for the loved counuy's sake.
with patient hand that podded while others slept,
VINO flung to the winds preferment and the future
Daring to put clear truth TO the perilous test
Fearing seattle il but the people gained.
And happest far in sacrifice and loss.
Yes, happest he when, plain in all mems sight
Tie turned contemptuous from the lure Of place.
spurning the laurel that should crown success
soled by surrender and a perjured soul
The people, Never once his faith was dmmed
In them his countrymen; all, once:
For IL doubt shook him, twas but heetng mood
Though others wavered, wavcred he
Though madness, like food, swept DER the land.
This way, that; though love of pef subdued
The civic conscience, stil he held his faith,
Unfsltering. E mans uue-heartedness.
And On the judgment OF
Firm with the powerful, gentle with the weak
His the sweetness OF the strong! His voice
Took tenderness in speech with little folk,
And he plufu Of man and brute
So for the struggle with high things of state.
lie strengthened his heart with kindly deeds
His own 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, momentous on the world:
Built stronger foundations Of the state.
Upheld the word Of honor whit less
'rvixt nation and nation than 'twiNt man and man;
Held righteousness tho law Of the world,
And higher the hopes Of AN mankind.
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Lonely the heart that listens TO voice
save that of Duty; lonely he how oft
When turning the smooth, advised PATH
Ho climbed the chill and solitary
Wondering that any wondered, when clear
The light that lcd-tho isht OF perfect faith
And passion for the nsn, that hro Of heaven
wherein self dies, and only truth lives on
Lonely how OFT when with the satesman's art,
He waited for the full. ess OF the ume
And wrought the good De willed by slow degrees,
Ana IN due order conquered wrong ON wrong
Lonely how OFT when mid dark disesteem
He moved straight forward 10 a longed-for goal
Doing each day the bcs, be might with vision
Firm hxt above, kept pure by pure intent
Some spirits are built to take the shocks of the world
10 interpose against blind currents of fate
or wrath. or ignorant purpose a hNt will
Against the bursting storm front of calm
Al when the Atlantic RACES stern cliff
Hurts back the tempest and the ponderous wave
So stood he firm when lesser wills were broken,
So ne endured when others failed and feili
Bearing IN silent suffering the stress.
The blame. the burden OF 'he fateful day.
VI
SO single and so simple was hs mind.
30 unperturbed by learned subteues
And 90 devout OF justice ana the right
His thought. his act held something of the prmei
The wide sure vision OF the ancient day
Prophetic. even a touch OF natures force
Large. elemental healing bulded well
on the deep bases OF humanity,
VII
o strong oak rlyeni o tower on defense
Fallenl o captain OF the hosts struck do'nl
% cries OF lamsntauon-tuming swift
70 sounds Of triumph and great victories
For into the hands Of humble soul
Crest trust was iaId and he that trust FULFILLED
So he who ded accomplished mighty deeds
And no who fought has Von the infinite peace
And sleeps enshrued n bis own peoples hearts
And On the praise of nations and the world
And rests immortal among the immortal Great