The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-12-26
A TRIBUTE 10 OUR
HONORED DEAD

HONOkED DEAD
How bright are honors which await
those who with sacred fortitude and
patriotic patience have endured all
things that they might save their na-
tive land from division and from the
powr of corruption. The honored dead!
They that die for good cause are
redeemed from death. Their names
are gathered and garnered. Their
mmory is precious. Each place grows
for them who were born there. There
is to be, ere long in every village, and
in every neighborhood, a glowing pride
in its martyred heroes. Tablets shall
preserve their names. Pious love
shall renew their inscriptions as time
and the unfeeling elements efface
them; and the national festivals shall
give multitudes of precious names to
the orator'slips. Children shall grow
up under more sacred inspirations,
whose elder brothers dying nobly for
their country left name that honc1-
ed and inspired all who bore it. Orphan
children shall find thousands Of faith
ers and mothers to love and help those
whom dying heroes left as a legacy
to the gratitude Of the public.
Oh, tell me not that they are dead,
that generous host that airy army
of invisible heroes. They hover as q
cloud of witnesses above this nation.
Are they dead that yet speak louder
than we can speak. ard . more uni
veral language? Are they dead that
yet act? Are they dead that yet
more upon society, and inspire the pso-
pie with nobler motives and more
heroic patriotism?
Ye that mourn, let gladness minRle
with your tears. It was your son but
now he is the nations. He made your
household bright; now his example
inspires thousand households. Dear
to his brothers and sisters, he is now
brother to every generous youth IN
the land. Before he was narrowed,
appropriated, shut up to you; now he
Is augmented, set free, and given to
all. Before he was yours; he il eurs.
He has died from tho family that h
might live to the nation. Not en>
name shall be forgotten or neslectAd:
and it shall by-and-by be confessed Of
our modern heroes, as it is Of an an.
cient hero, that he did more for this
country by his death than by his
whole life.
Neither are they less honored who
shall bear through life the marks Of
wounds and sufferinga Neither
epaulet nor badge is sohonorable al
wounds received in good cause.
Many man shall envy him who hence
forth limps. So strange is the trans.
forming power of patriotic ardor, that
men shall almost covet Disagreement
Crowds will give way to hobbling Grip.
pies, and uncover in the presence Of
feebleness and helplessness. Buoy.
ant choildren shall pause in their noisy
games, and with loving reverence
honor those whose hands can work nc
more, and whose feet are no longer
able to march except upon that journ.
ey which brings good men to honor
and Immortality. Oh, mother of lost
children! sit not in darkness nor sor.
row for those whom a nation honors
Oh. mourners of the early dead! they
shall live again, and live forever. Your
sorrows are our gladness. The nation
lives because you gave it men that
love it better than their own lives
And when few more days shall have
cleared the perils from around the na.
tion's brow, and she shall sit in un.
sullied garments of liberty, with JUS.
tice upon her forehead, love in hel
eyes, and truth upon her lips-she
shall not forget those whose life
given to her, shall live with her life
till time shall be no more.
Every mountain and hill shall have
its treasured name, every river shall
keep some solemn title, every valley
and every lake shall cherish its hon.
ored register; and till the mountain,
are worn out, and the rivers forge,
to flow, and till the clouds are weary
Of replenishing springs, and ths
springs forget to gush, and the rill.
to sing,-shall their names be kent
fresh with reverent honors which an
inscribed upon the book Of national
remembrance.