Dying Words of Noted Men and Women.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 June 1910, Page 4

Dying Words of Noted Men and Women.

— 4> AN INTERESTING LIST. The last words of the late Kill}; Edmard are said to 'have heen : "I ihall work to the und.'" We give below a list compiled frtrni biography and hist(/iy id' t!ie dyiiiK worls of oth-r initivl men "My c.iiiiitry! my country!".— I.::i d Ikv.u onslield. "Amen." - .Mr Gladstone. "lit is wtdl."—Washington. "I lniist sleep now." Byron. "Then I am safe." Cromwell. "Let the !i;j;ht enter."-- Goe>the. "And i.s this death IV. "Indepeudi'iice for ever." - A;ja ins. "Lord, take mv spirit." —Edward VL "iiord, recc-ive my spirilt." — Craiimer. "Din't {five up the ship." — Lawrence. "It is the last of earth." —J. Q. Ad'anis. "I am about to die." Satnuel Jtdnisoii. "1 shall be happy." —Archbishop Sharp. "Don't let poor Xellv starve." — Charles 11. "I thank God \ have done my duty."-- Nelson. "So much ito do, so lilttle done." -V. I?hades. "It inn.tte.rs little how the head lietii." -Raleigh. "A dyinij; man can <lo nothing; easv." I'" rii nkli n. "I feel the daisies t<rowing over me." - .Joins Ive-ats. "I feel as if I were myself - Walter Scott. " The best of all is, God is wi.'tli us." John Wesley. "Many iMiinus ore becoming (dearer to me."—-Schiller. "Le.t me die to ihe sounds of dtdieious music." - Mirahoau. "Don't let that, awkward sipiad fire over my ;rrave." Burns. "Takin<4 a hap in the dark. O, mystery."- T!:omas Paine. " There is in I. a drop r>.f blood on ni.v iiands."- -Frederick "I thci'iltlit 'that dyinsr had been moro difficult."—-"Louis XH r . "It is small, very small," alluding to her neck.— Annie Boleyn. "I do met 'leeo. I "wi<h to meet . d.'i*h awake."- Maria Theresa. "I nsiirn niv soul to God: my ('auuhter to my country." JeflVrS'Ul. "We are as near heaven by sea as hy land."■ Sir Humphrey Gilbert. "Into Thy hands. O Lord. T commend my spirilt." Christopher C:;l----umbi!«. "Oh, Galilean, Thou hast con'|U "'ei!." lOmoen r Julian. ! "! can die- happv."— General I Wolfe.