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208 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.

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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.