| Show I. I A Tribute to King Corn I The following noble panegyric to corn com which has worthily taken its place with such gems of thought and expression as Washington's farewell farewell fare fare- well address and Lincoln's Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettys Gettys- fare I burg oration as an nn American classic was front from the brain and pen of the Hon Richard J J. J Oglesby the famous famous fam fam- amous am- am ous War Governor of Illinois The Tho corn the corn the corn that in its first beginning and in its growth has furnished aptest Illustrations of the tragic announcement othe o othe o- o the hope of or man If he be die he shall sure live again Planted in the friendly but somber bosom of I mother earth it dle dies dies- Yea It dies the second death surrendering up each ach trace of form and earthly shape until the outward tide stopped by bythe bythe bythe the reacting vital germs which breaking all the bonds and cerements of Its Us sad d decline come bounding s laughing Into life and light the fitti- fitti ast st o of all the symbols that make certain certain 11 tain promise of the fate fato of ot man And so it died and then it lived again See It look It-look look on its ripening wavIng waving waving ing field See how it wears a crown crOWl prouder than monarch ever wore ware sometimes jauntily and amI sometimes after aUer the storm the dignified survivors ors of the tempest seem to i w a afield afield afield field of slaughter and aud to piry pity a fallen fallen fall fall- en foe toe And nd see the pendent cai caskets tI of ot the cornfield filled with the lie wine wane of life Ufe and see the silken Milken fringes that set a form of fa al n and amI for I art And now the evening comes and something of a LIA Timm to eat et sud ud listen The scud ling ci clouds conceal the half and then reveal th tha whole w of the moonlit beauty of the tha night and then the gentle winds wind make heavenly harmonies on a a. thousand harps that hang upon l tote 3 borders and the edges and the middle of the field pf ripening corn until my very I heart seems to beat heat re responsive with the tho rising and the falling of at the thelong thelong long melodious refrain The melancholy melancholy mel mel- I clouds sometimes make I shadows on the field and hide hid Us its aureate wealth and now they th move mOVI into si sight ht there there comes S the golden glow of or promise for an Industrious Indus s land Aye the corn the royal orn orn within whose yellow ellow heart there s 's s of health an and strength for or all Lo nations The Th lh corn triumphant that with the aid of man hath hathma maJo Jo victorious vic vic- victorious procession across the tufted plain and laid foundation for tor or he be social excellence that Is an l is s a t r to be This glorious plant transmitted transmit transmit- ted fed 1 y tho the alchemy of ot God the warrior in battle the poet in song and strengthens everywhere the thousand arms that work the of life v Oh that I had the voice of song songor or skill to translate into tone the tho harmonies and symphonies and oratories oratorIes oratories ora ora- tories that roll 1011 across my soul when standing sometimes by day and sometimes by night upon the borders of the ver verdant t sea sea I note a tI world of promise and then before one half the year is gone I view its full fruition al and d see Us heaped gold await the need of man Majestic fruitful wondrous plant Thou creates among the manifestations manifestations man man- of the wisdom and the love of God that may be bo seen In all the fields or upon the hillsides or orin orin orin in th the valleys Glorious corn that more than all the tho sisters of the field wears tropic garments Nor Nor on e shore of Nilus nor Ind lad does dress her forms more splendidly My lily God r I to to live again that time when half the world was good and the this theother other half unknown And now again the corn that In Its kernel holds the str that shall in the body of the man refreshed re refreshed refreshed re- re I subdue the forest and compel compel compel com com- pel response from every E t field or shining In the eye of or beauty beauty beauty beau beau- I ty make male blossoms of her checks cheeks and jewels of ot her ber lips and thus I make for Cor man the greatest Inspiration inspiration inspiration tion to well-doing well the hope of comI companionship companionship com com- I of ot that sacred warm and well-embodied well soul a woman |
