| Show Bines of Consolation BRIGHAM > CITT August 271883 Editors Herald The sad news of assassination of Captain Andrew Burt was received re-ceived here with much regret and I have written the following verses consolatory to his relatives Till hard to part with those welove In daily life or by the hand of Death Parted by fate as Time percbseee remote Or dire disease may steal their mortal breath And lay their cherished aspirations low To pay the debt to destiny they owe Tis painful thus to part resigned Ithout a Bigb a murmur or a tear But Providence BO wisely has designed That all must taste the cup of sorrow here And feel the bitter pang of the bereaved And 1 okiog upward sigh to be relieved A thousand human hearts mav bleed In BDzuish deep to sympathy unknown un-known Ten tboimrd hoppy soul may never heed The many hearts that beat in grief alone Who bravely bear their lot pursue their way Jnchaered by bops consoling cheering ray Mans thoughts and actions too ale nocd nil By the Great Father wise allseeing eye He notes tho eazle soar the sparrow fall Or bid a puny mortal live or die Dethrones debauchery with pride and lust And lays their Totariea lifeless in the dust And when the fell asjsatlna blow Falls on the innocent with rancorkg hate le points a lesson there that all msy know And learn thatlesson ere it be too late How passion and temptations deadly sting Will cast thei killing blight on everything every-thing 0 thou Omnipotent whosepower iControlsjtbolivpi and destinies men Through every ordeal and each trying Hour Aid us to reverence thy wisdom then This grave injunction may we neer despise de-spise Safety alone in dutys pathway lies J BUBROWE |
