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Oh ! tender, loving ones of his dear home embalm 

 His memory with sighs ye must ; but seek for calm 

 In all the good he living, did ; and dying, paid 

 His life — upon the shrine of zeal in duty laid. 



Dark mountain king ! baptized with sacrificial blood, 

 Mt. Mitchell now. Gained by this broad and easy road, 

 Black Peak, no longer frowning unattained and wild, 

 Love hath subdued thee to the footsteps of a child : 

 A monument to that immortal power, thou'rt given 

 To man, by Him who made and ruleth Earth and Heaven. 



Y. 0. M. 



Richmond, Va., June 16, 1858. 



