Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Joshua S. Salmon (late a Representative from New Jersey), Delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate, Fifty-seventh Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 62 pages |
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Page 54 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 24 - He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Page 25 - AND is this all ? Can Reason do no more Than bid me shun the deep, and dread the shore ? Sweet moralist ! afloat on life's rough sea, The Christian has an art unknown to thee : He holds no parley with unmanly fears ; Where Duty bids he confidently steers, Faces a thousand dangers at her call, And, trusting in his God, surmounts them all.
Page 50 - None knew him but to love him, Nor named him but to praise.
Page 7 - Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the Senate take a recess until 12 o'clock to-morrow.
Page 26 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
Page 52 - I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed ; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 7 - I ask unanimous consent for the present consideration of the following resolution, which I send to the Clerk's desk. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows...
Page 51 - The memory of his good deeds will ever stay, A lamp to light us on the darkened way ; A music to the ear on clamoring street, A cooling well amid the noonday heat ; A scent of green boughs blown through narrow walls, A feel of rest when quiet evening falls.
Page 16 - All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, "Ah ! when shall they all meet again !" As in the days long since gone by, The ancient timepiece makes reply, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...