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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.”
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This passage poetically suggests that Marshall's spirit continues to thrive in a higher realm after his earthly life.
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To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
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What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
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