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ber. FcAv arc like him living; all will be like him in the dread partic- 

 ular of dying. There Avill come a day when others will fill our places in 

 the thronged Pavilion, where music swells, and woman smiles, and every 

 wave of the undulating air comes freighted with " one drop of fragrance 

 from thousands of roses." Then a»remoter time will come, when, to the 

 living generation, our thoughts will appear immature and our works 

 ephemeral, our language rude, and our knowledge meagre and cloudy. 

 Be it so. From our home in the skies we shall note the world's progress 

 with a holy pleasure, if we have helped in our day to lessen its sorrows, 

 and enlarge its knowledge, to promote virtue, liberty, and religion, and 

 make agriculture the most honored, as it is the most useful, employment 

 known among men. 



