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Title: The Grover Cleveland memorial, the eighteenth of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and nine, Carnegie hall, Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, College of the city of New York. Thursday evening at eight-fifteen o'clock
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Cleveland Memorial Committee
Subjects: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Publisher: New York (The De Vinne press)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o stood he firm when lesser wills were broken;So he endured when others failed and fell;Bearing, in silent suffering, the stress,The blame, the burden of the fateful day. VI So single and so simple was his mind,So unperturbed by learned subtletiesAnd so devout of justice and the right—His thought, his act, held something of the prime; (21) THE CLEVELAND MEMORIAL The wide, sure vision of the ancient dayProphetic; even a touch of natures force—Large, elemental, healing; builded wellOn the deep bases of humanity. VII O strong oak riven! O tower of defenseFallen! O captain of the hosts struck down!O cries of lamentation—turning swiftTo sounds of triumph and great victories!For unto the hands of one of humble soulGreat trust was laid, and he that trust fulfilled.So he who died accomplished mighty deeds,And he who fought has won the infinite peace,And sleeps enshrined in his own peoples hearts,And in the praise of nations and the world,And rests immortal among the immortal Great. (22)
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Copyright, jqoq, by Han is <3- Eiving Jaj^ h~/7M£*^— Mayor McClellan: Ladies and Gentlemen: Ihave the honor to introduce to you the ChiefJustice of the United States. ADDRESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER In announcing to the people of the United Statesthe sad tidings of the death of General Grant,President Cleveland said that, whether as a soldieror as a Chief Magistrate, the illustrious deceasedtrod unswervingly the pathway of duty, unde-terred by doubts, single-minded and straightfor-ward. In these words Mr. Cleveland indicated the qual-ities he thought most commendable in a publicservant, and in eulogizing another unconsciouslyportrayed himself, for he was single-minded, andstraightforward, and unswerving, and nothingdoubting, in his adherence to duty. He never doubted that the conduct of publicaffairs should be governed by the principles ofhonor and truthfulness and honest dealing—inshort, the principles applicable to the discharge oftrusts—and he regarded public office as a

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