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Show Death. When the sun disappears below the horizon ho is not dow 11. The heavens glow for a lull hour after bis departure, nud when a great and good man seU; the west Is luminous long after he Is out of sight, A room In which flowers have been Is sweet long after the flowers have been taken awa) . They leave a fragrance behind. -And a goodly man who lives unselfkhl) and disinterestedly dis-interestedly and seeks the good of other men can not die out of this world. When he goes hence he leaves behind much of himself. There have been many men w ho left behind them that which hunJ-redsofjearshavenotwomout. hunJ-redsofjearshavenotwomout. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. Tbewotld Is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wl-est statesmen. We are indebted in-debted to the past. We stand In the greatness of ages that liave gone rather than that of our own. But of how many of us shall It be said that, being d-ad, we yet speak? Henry II and lUeilicr. |
