Show V A A Tribute To King Corn The following noble panegyric to corn corn which has worthily taken its place with such gems of thought and expression as Washington's farewell faro faro- well address and Lincoln's Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettys Gettys- burg oration as an American classic was from the brain and pen of the theIon lIon Ion Richard J. J J Oglesby the famous famous famous fam fam- ous War Val Governor of Illinois The Tho corn the corn the corn that In Its Us first beginning and In Its growth has furnished aptest illustrations illustrations of the tragic announcement of the hope of man If It he ho die dio dielie he lie shall sure live IIvo again Planted in the tho friendly but somber bosom of mother earth it dies Yea It it dies s tho the second death surrendering up each trace o of form and earthly shape until the outward tide stopped b by bythe the reacting vital germs which breaking all the bonds and cerements of or its sad decline come bounding laughing Into life and light the fittl- fittl littlest est of all the symbols that make certain cr certain tain promise of the tho fate fato of man And so It died and then It lived agan See It look It-look look on its ripening waving ng ing field See how It wears a crown prouder than monarch ever wore ware Jauntily and sometimes after the storm the dignified survivors ors of the tempest seem to view w afield a afield afield field of slaughter and nd to pity a fall lall- n m n foe And see the pendent caskets of the cornfield filled with ho he winer wine w jf r c life and see soe the time silken fringes Cringes hat set a form of Jarhl na 11 and for lor art And now the evening comes I and md something ol ot a tiri Lin to lu 1 iest t sad uJ Isten The clouds conceal he ho half and then reveal roveal tha whole it Jf f the moonlit beauty of th night and lull then the gentle Montle winds make u Heavenly harmonies harmonIcs on a no thou thousand and that hang upon L las tre J borders and the edges and the middle of the of ripening corn until my very heart seems to beat responsive ive with the rising and the falling of the thelong thelong long tong melodious refrain The Tho mel- mel clouds sometimes make on the field and amid am hid hi Jib its tf r v w. w I i and now flOW tiny they move mud md slowly Into sight there somas om s the golden glow of promise for an au industrious indus indus- land Aye the corn tho the royal jorn orn within whose yellow heart thero there s 's of health and strength for all tho hC nations The corn triumphant 1 that with the aid of man hath made maLle victorious victorious victorious vic vic- procession across the tufted plain and laid foundation for or he Le social excellence that is ant t s t to 1 be bo This glorious plant transmitted transmit transmit- ted by tho the alchemy of God sUf sustains the warrior In battle the poet in song song- end and strengthens everywhere I the thousand arms that work the of life Ufe Oh th that t I 1 had the tho voice of song Bong or skill to translate Into tone tono the harmonies and symphonies and oratories oratories ora ora- tories that roll 1011 across my BOU soul Boul w when standing sometimes by day j jand and sometimes by night upon tho the borders of at the verdant sea sea I note a world worM of promise and then before one halt the year Is gone gono I view Its full fruition and see Its heaped gold await the need of or man |