JAMES MACANDREW.
0 Obit. Feb. 24, 1887. The silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl, Fall'n to the earth, in shattered fragments lies; Yet he whose name a people's heart enrol Shall still live on—the patriot never dies. Weep not because the Reaper gathers in, And garners safe the full and ripened grain, For hiin we mourn life ends but to begin Where bliss supernal hath no touch of pain. Foremost 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 laud Shared his broad sympathies —nay, all the race. For all mankind his brain conceived and planned; For all mankind his gen'rous heart had place. With loving rev'renco lay him gently down ; This, whore he rests, shall be the sacred spot. With bright immortelles weave a fadeless Crown ; His name, his worth, shall never be forgot. Lay him to rest beneath Otago's sod ; The great warm heart for all men that had room. "An honest man's the noblest work of Clod," Write this, his epitaph, above his tomb. "W. J. Steward.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2290, 15 March 1887, Page 2
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199JAMES MACANDREW. Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2290, 15 March 1887, Page 2
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