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DIED -- Early morning of September 5, 1876, and / in the gleaming dawn of "name and fame,"
Hamilton J. Dunbar.
Dead! Dead! Dead!
We thought him ours alone; / And were so proud to see him tread / The rounds of fame, and lift his head / Where sunlight ever shone; / But now our aching eyes are dim, / And look through tears in vain for him.
Name! Name! Name!
It was his diadem; / Nor ever tarnish-taint of shame / Could dim its luster -- like a flame / Reflected in a gem, / He wears it blazing on his brow / Within the courts of Heaven now.
Tears! Tears! Tears!
Like dews upon the leaf / That bursts at last -- from out the years / The blossom of a trust appears / That blooms above the grief; / And mother, brother, wife and child / Will see it and be reconciled.