Thus musing, to the western wall I came.

Departing, lo! a tablet fresh and fair,
Where glistened many a youth's remembered name
In golden letters on the snow-white stone,

Young lives these aisles and arches once have known,
Their country's bleeding altar might not spare.

These died that we might claim a soil unstained
Save by the blood of heroes; their bequests,

A realm unsevered and a race unchained.

Has purer blood through Norman veins come down From the rough knights that clutched the Saxon's crown Than warmed the pulses in these faithful breasts?

These, too, shall live in history's deathless page,
High on the slow-wrought pedestals of fame,
Ranged with the heroes of remoter age:
They could not die who left their nation free,
Firm as the rock, unfettered as the sea,

Its heaven unshadowed by the cloud of shame.

While on the storied past our memory dwells,
Our grateful tribute shall not be denied,
The wreath, the cross of rustling immortelles;
And willing hands shall clear each darkening bust,
As year by year sifts down the clinging dust
On Shirley's beauty and on Vassall's pride.

But for our own, our loved and lost, we bring

With throbbing hearts and tears that still must flow, In full-heaped hands, the opening flowers of spring, – Lilies half-blown, and budding roses, red

As their young cheeks before the blood was shed
That lent their morning bloom its generous glow.

Ah! who shall count a rescued nation's debt,

Or sum in words our martyrs' silent claims? Who shall our heroes' dread exchange forget, All life, youth, hope, could promise to allure For all that soul could brave or flesh endure?

They shaped our future: we but carve their names.

THE following sonnet, "In King's Chapel," written in Boston, Nov. 3, 1873, by Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr, deserves a place in these pages:

"O Lord of Hosts, how sacred is this place,

Where, though the tides of time resistless flow,
And the long generations come and go,
Thou still abidest! In this holy space

The very airs are hushed before Thy face,
And wait in reverent calm, as voices low

Blend in the prayers and chantings, soft and slow,
And the gray twilight stealeth on apace.
Hark! There are whispers from the time-worn walls;
The mighty dead glide up the shadowy aisle;
And there are rustlings, as of angels' wings,
While from the choir the heavenly music falls!
Well may we bow in grateful praise the while —

In the King's Chapel reigns the King of Kings!"

REFERENCE has been made (p. 567) to Mr. Foote's strong interest in the school at Hampton, Va., and to the fact that the hospital connected with it was due to his benevolent enterprise. On the walls of the hospital is a tablet bearing this inscription:

FOR THE RELIEF OF

GOD'S CHILDREN

AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF

MARY FOOTE.

BLESSED ARE THE PURE

IN HEART.

1864-1885.

ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF

KING'S CHAPEL, BOSTON.

The tablet is of brass, the color of old bronze, set on a piece of oak. A design of flowers is etched in the brass, outside the inscription: on the right hand, a spray of lilies; on the left, of wild roses; at the foot, a bunch of mayflower.

THE HOLMES MONUMENT.

IN the autumn of 1895 the Parish caused to be placed upon the northern wall of the Chapel a beautiful monument in memory of Dr. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. The monument, of pale Sienna marble and Mexican onyx, was designed by Mrs. Henry Whitman; the inscription was written by President Charles W. Eliot; and the Latin motto upon the frieze (from Horace's Ars Poetica, 343) was suggested by Professor George M. Lane.

The inscription reads as follows:

THE REV. HOWARD NICHOLSON BROWN was installed Minister of King's Chapel according to the form in use in this Parish for more than a century, on Sunday Nov. 10, 1895.

MINISTER AND OFFICERS.

1896.

REV. HOWARD NICHOLSON BROWN.

Wardens.

ARTHUR THEODORE LYMAN.

CHARLES PELHAM CURTIS.

Vestry.

PHILIP HOWES SEARS.

JOHN WILLIAM WHEELWRIGHT.

ROBERT HOOPER STEVENSON.

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL.

JOSEPH RANDOLPH COOLIDGE, JR.

FRANCIS CABOT LOWELL.

OSCAR HALLETT SAMPSON.

HAMILTON ALONZO HILL.

ERNEST JACKSON.

Treasurer.

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL.