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Show John Itrown as a Poet. In the Pioneer cemetery, in Richfield, Summit county, O., side by side upon a 1 modest lot rises four small mounds of turf which mail; the resting placo of four children of John Brown and of bis wife, Mary. The children died in 1843, and within four days of each other, of a disease which was epidemic at the time. Their names are given on tho stone above the grave Charles, Austin, Peter, Sarah. Under those names are rudely carved a few lines which tho old abolitionist warrior war-rior himself composed for the purpose: , Through all tho dreary night of death j In peaceful sluralxjre may you rest. And when eleraaj day shall dawn, And shades and death have passed and gone Oh, mar you then, with glad surprise, Io Qod's own image wake and rise. Hagtmlna of Western History. |