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ut whether on the seaffold high,Or in the battle’s van,The fittest place where man can dieIs where he dies for man.—M. F. Barry. The American Republic must live. Popular commo-tion and partisan fury may dash their mad waves againstit}but they shall roll back shattered, spent. Persecution shallnotshake it, fanaticism disturb it, nor revolution change it.But it shall stand towering sublime, like the last mountainin the deluge, while the earth rocks at its feet, and thethunders peal above its head—majestic, immutable, magnif-icent. — Wendell Phillips. Cummings’ Encyclopedia. 239 Bee years of earth are over, and the cares of Earth areoneWhen the reign of Time is ended, and Eternity begun;When the thunders of Omniscience on our wakened senses roll,And the sky above shall wither, and be gathered like a scroll;When, among the lofty mountains, and across the mightysea,The sublime celestial bugler shall ring out the reveille,Then shall march with brightest laurels, and with proud,victorious tread,To a oe up in heaven, our Grand Army of theead!—Carleton—Army of the Dead. A Mother’s first ministration for her infant is to enter,as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win itslife at the peril of her own. How different must an affec-tion thus founded be from all others! —Mrs. Sigourney. They call that man a statesman whose ear is tuned tocatch the slightest pulsations of a pocket-book, and todenounce as a demagogue anyone who dares to listen to theheart beat of humanity. — William J. Bryan. Flow on, ye tears! and bear me home;Flow not! ye tears of deeper woe;Flow on, ye tears! that are but foamOf deeper waves that will not flow.. A little while—I reach the shoreWhere tears flow not forever more!—ather Abram J. Ryan—Tears. Turn from the glittering bribe thy scornful eye,
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