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Show LEADERS OF MEN. When thev are dead, wo heap the laurels high Above them, where Indifferent they lie; Wo Join their deeds lo unaccustomed praise. And crown with garlands of Immortal bays Whom, living", we but thought to crucify." As mountains seem less glorious, viewed too nigh. So often do the great who we decry Gigantic loom to our astonished gaze, When they arc dead. For. shamed by largeness, littlenesses die. And, partisan and narrow hntcs put by. Wo shrine our heroes for tho future days. And to atone our Ignorant delays With fond and emulous devotion trye When they are dead! Florence Earle Coates In tho Century. |