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½{{ppoem| Such his rare triumph : in our humble lay

Is no attempt to utter all his praise;

He rests in peace, awaiting the great day

That small and great from death's repose may raise.

Webster "still lives"; to us of olden time

Lives in our memory as a vision bright :

His noble thoughts and style, in sense sublime.

Furnish a fund of ever fresh delight.

"Lives" in the school-boy's theme. in manhood's page,

On every leaf of time's best-lettered scroll:

'" Lives" in the record of of his own rare age.

In sons he gave his country's honored roll.

So rich in thought, so varied in his theme.

On his ascent each age and sex may rise;

As with the "ladder in the Patriarch's dream.

Its foot on earth its height above the skies."

If to his memory I ascribe no fault.

'T is not that he or any is all pure;

His known defects I bury in his vault —

His noble deeds will with his God endure.

To him all-wise, all merciful, and just—

With whom a century's time is as a day—

"'T is well to fee! we safely can entrust

Friends loved and honored who have passed away.

Marshfield may claim the venerated dust

Of Webster, in his last august repose:

The vital spark, that animated first

The soul within, our Granite hills disclose.

The old "Bay State " with pride asserts her claim —

Our wide-spread Union mourns him as her son;

His pride and pleasure ever was to name

New Hampshire as his first-loved, cherished one.

Washington, D. C.June. 1882.

Gage

Quarterly, first and fourth party per saltier, azure and argent, a saltier gules, second, third azure, the sun in his glory proper—Crest, a Baron's coronet and heliuei, a ram proper—Supporters, two greyhounds ppr, gorged with a ducal coronet.