IN MEMORIAUM
I, The following elpgiao verses appear m Dunedin Evening Herald ;—
JAMES MAOANDRBW.
Obit. Feb. 24, 1887.
The eilver cord is loosed, the golden bowl, Fall'n to the earth, m Bhattered fragments liea; Set he whose name a people's hearts enrol Shall still live on — the patriot never dies. Weep not because the Reaper gathers m, And gamers safe the full and ripened grain, For him we mourn life ends but to begin Where bliss supernal hath no touch of pain, Foremoßt of all Otago's foremost men He gave her loving service all his days; With heart and hand and brain and voice and
pen, Planned out her progress and proclaimed her praise.
Nor yet Otago only ; all the land Shared his broad sympathies— nay all the race. For. {all mankind his brain conceived and planned ; For all mankind his gen'roua heart had place.
'■ With loving rev'rence lay him gently down ; This, where he reßts, shall be a sacred spot. With bright immortelles weave a fadeless crown; His name, hia worth, Bhall never be forgot. Lay him to re3t beneath Otago's sod ; ' The great warm heart for all men that had room.
" An honest man's the noblest work of God," Wtite this, his epitaph, above his tomb. W. J. SXEWABD.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1496, 2 March 1887, Page 3
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211IN MEMORIAUM Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1496, 2 March 1887, Page 3
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