Here is a sample from George Peabodys eulogy: In hundreds of schools of the desolated South, the children, even now, are chanting thy requiem and weaving chaplets around thy name. In hundreds of comfortable homes, provided by thy bounty, the poor of the grandest city of the world, even now are breathing blessings on thy memory. The proudest shrine of Old England has unlocked its consecrated vaults for thy repose. The bravest ship of a navy ‘whose march is o’er the mountain waves, whose home is on the deep,’ has borne thee as a conqueror to thy chosen rest; and, as it passed from isle to isle, and from sea to sea, in a circumnavigation almost as wide as they own charity, has given new significance to the memorable sayings of the great funeral orator of antiquity: […]” The full text is a wonderful read.
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