Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.