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Show Services at Concord." One In t, long peal of thunder - The clouds nrc cleared away, An.d the glorious sun once IUore looks down Amidst the dazzling day. "He is coming ! he is coming ! " Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom. There was glory on his forehead, There was lustre in his eye, And he never walked to battle More proudly than to die; There was color in his visage, Though the cheeks of all were wan, And they marvelled as they saw him pass, That great and goodly man l He mounted up the scaffold, And he turned him to the crowd ; But they dared not trust the people, So he might not speak aloud. Dut he looked upon. the heavens, And they were clear and blue, And in. the liquid ether The eye of God shone through ; Yet a black and murky battlement Lay resting on the hill, As though the thunder slept ·within - All else was calm and still. The grim Geneva ministers 'Vith anxious scowl drew near, As you have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer. He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent his knee, And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace, Beneath the gallows tree. Then radiant and serene he rose, And cast his cloak away; For he had ta'en his latest look Of earth, and BUll, and day; Service._ at Concord. A beam of light fell o'Pr him Like a glory round thr shriven, And he climbed the lofty ladder As it were the path to heaven. Then came a fln~h from out the cloud, And a stunning thunder-roll ; And no man dared to look aloft ; Fear was on every soul. There was anothet· heavy sound, A hush, and then n groan ; And darkness swept across the skyThe work of death was done ! 449 A. BRONSON ALCOTT then offercu the~e sentences from PLATO. An upright man is a perpetual mngistratc. Jupiter, fearing for our race, lest it should entirely perish, by rca~on of injuring one another from not posse sing the political art, but only the military, sent H ermes to carry Shame and Justice to men, that they might be ornaments of cities and bonds to cement fri cncl,,hip. Hermes, therefore, a ·keel Jupiter in what manner he wns to giYc Shame and Justice to men. "\Vhether. as the arts have been distributed, so shall I distribute these, also ? F or they have been <li "tributed thus : one man who posse es the medici110l art is su llkil·nt for many not skilled in it. And so with other craftsmc:n. Slw !1 I thus dispense Shame uncl Just ice nmong men, or distribute them to all?" u To all," said J upitcr, "nnd let all partake of them ; for th <.:n: would be no cities if a few only were to partake of them, as of othrr arts. Moreover, enact a law in my name, that whoever is unable to partake of Shame and Justice, shall be put to death as a pest of a city." The next exercise was the recital of the following original ODE. 0 Brother, brave, and just, and ·wise! 'Vhose death unjust we mourn to-day, Thy name shall live till Freedom dies ; No tyrnnt can thy spirit slay ! The llero's page, the Martyr's scroll, Su1cc men for truth and virtue bled, 38* |