Show Charles Charle Algernon who died a week ago in England was a marvelous literary genius V T We e think he will win be bc more famous fifty years ears from now than he lie is today toda- because he was a reckless man nian not one whom the world generally loved loyed Ho IIo was a scoffer he scoffed at religion his words of scorn for forthe forthe i the nobility of his leis own country were bitter as death I but he ho was a genius When Barry Cornwall died in 1874 he wrote a little poem in honor of his memory There may bo be many prettier things in our language than that poem but we do not recall them now Hero are two stanzas from it In the garden of death where tho the singers wh se names are no deathless One with another m make ko music unheard of men mon Where tho the dead sweet roses fado fade not of lips long breathless And the tho kind kind eyes oyes shino chino that shall weep not nor change again again again- Who comes now crowned crot with f tho the blossom of snow white years 1 What music is this that the world of tho the dead men hears 7 w Time takes thou them home honta that wo ivo loved lo fair names and aud famous To the thu oft t-oft lon long lone sleep steep to the tho broad sweet bosom of death But t the e flower nr of their souls ho shall shaH scot cot ot take to shamo us Nor tho lips lack song forever that now DOW lack breath For or with us shall the music and tho the perfume that die dio not dwell Thou Though h tho the doad dond to our oar dead bid Welcome and we Fare Farewell well 1 |