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 WEBSTER he has allowed us, your sons and countrymen, to meet you here, and in the name of the pres- ent generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you ! But, alas ! you are not all here ! Time and the sword have thinned your ranks. Prescott, Put- nam, Stark, Brooks, Reed, Pomeroy, Bridge! — our eyes seek for you in vain amid this broken band. You are gathered to your fathers, and live only to your country in her grateful re- membrance and your own bright example. But let us not too much grieve that you have met the common fate of men. You lived at least long enough to know that your work had been nobly and successfully accomplished. You lived to see your country's independence established, and to sheathe your swords from war. On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like Eisen on mid-noon '^^; and the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloudless. But, ah! Him!^ the first great martyr in 1 Tbese words are from the fifth book of Milton's " Paradise Lost," and occur in the remark made by Adam to Eve on discovering the approach of " The angelic Virtue," as follows: " Haste hither, Eve, and, worth thy sight, behold Eastward among these trees what glorious Shape Comes this way moving: Seems another morn Risen on mid-noon." ^ Major-General Joseph Warren. 29
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