LINES ON GILBERT STEWART.
Gilbert has gone from the cares and the strife, The worries and troubles and aims of this life ; His place is left vacant, and vacant shall stand, As no one can fill it in all this fair land.
Each household this morning, though early the hour, Endeavoured a tribute to pay to his name, And ere the dread cover of death o'er him spread We gazed our last look on the face that wa3 dead.
But even in death how peaceful and tranquil, The features that once beamed with love for its kind : Not encircled -with country, or kindred, or station— Universal the promptings and bent of his mind.
He unsparingly gave to the poor and the needy, The widow and orphan were fed by his hand ; The swagman, the traveller, even the scamp he could pity, And never a man from his door did he turn.
The digger at times, when the fates were against him, And poverty's grasp around him had come— When all nature seemed dark and unsympathising, It was then that at Gilbert's he found a true friend. He has gone on before us across the dread waters, We gaze and we wonder how soon we shall come ; Our hold upon life may be shortened as his was, Then let's do as he did—our best for mankind ! F. B. Larrikins, February 8, 1885.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2629, 9 February 1885, Page 2
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231LINES ON GILBERT STEWART. Kumara Times, Issue 2629, 9 February 1885, Page 2
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