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Rh Changeless change the law that runs Through the flame-inscribed page, &quot;World on world and age on age, Balls of ice and orbs of fire, What abides when these expire ? Through slow cycles they revolve, Yet at last like clouds dissolve. Jove, Osiris, Brahma pass, Races wither like the grass. Must not mortals be as- gods To embrace such periods ? Yet at Nature s heart remains One who waxes not nor wanes. And our crowning glory still Is to have conceived his will.&quot;

September 26, 1881. WEEP for the martyr ! Strew his bier With the last roses of the year ; Shadow the land with sables ; knell The harsh-tongued, melancholy bell ; Beat the dull muffled drum, and flaunt The drooping banner ; let the chant Of the deep-throated organ sob One voice, one sorrow, one heart-throb, From land to land, from sea to sea The huge world quires his elegy.