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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Shadow of death. (search)
flourish and fade like the leaves of the forest, and the fairest flowers that bloom and wither in a day has not a frailer hold on life than the mightiest monarch that has ever shook the earth by his footsteps. Generations of men appear and vanish like the grass, and the countless multitude that swells the world to-day will to-morrow disappear like the foot prints on the shore. "Soon as the rising tide shall beat, Each trace will vanish from the sand." In the beautiful drama of Ion the instinct of immortality so eloquently uttered by the death devoted Greek finds a clear response in every thoughtful soul. When about to yield his young existence as a sacrifice to Fate, his betrothed Clemente asks it they shall not meet again, to which he replies: "I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal; of the flowing streams that flow forever; of the stars, among whose fields of azure my raised spirit hath walked in glory — all were dumb. But while I gaze u