Obscure Martyrs.
They bar* no place in stoned page, .* No rest in marble shrine; They are paafc and gone with a peruh^ Thevluad and '.made no aigo.' But work bhafe aball find its wage, yet, And deeds thab their God did not forget, Done for their love Divine— - These were the mourners, and these eb^ Tho crownß of fcboir immortality.
0 ' seek them not where sleep the dead, i Te shall nob S»d their trace ; No graven atone is »t their bead, No green grasa hides tbeir face; Bub sad and unseen is tbeir silent grave-. Ib may be the sand or deep sea iraire, . Or a lonely desert place ; For they needed no prayers and no mourn. ing bell —. They were tombed in the true hearta thafc knew them well. .
They healed sick hearts till theirs wero broken And dried aad eyes till theirs leab eight j We shall know ab last by a certain token How they foughb asd fell in the fight, ; ; Salb bears of sorrow unbeheld, Passionate cries unchronided, And sileab cries for the right. Angels shall count them, and earth sb»U sigh Thab she left her best children tobattla and di«. ?. Sir Edwin Arnold,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 108, 9 May 1896, Page 4 (Supplement)
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