Cut from a newspaper. John F.H. Vincent was Dr. A.L. Manning's
brother-in-law.
DIED - On the 18th inst., JOHN F. H.
VINCENT, aged 48
Thus hath died an honest man, the noblest work of
God.
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A Tribute on the Memory of
J. F. H. Vincent,
BY A. L. MANNING, M. D.
And is he dead?
Can it be so?
The honest, just and kind,
And is it thus, we all must go?
God, save those left
behind!
And does his form,
in death's stern grasp,
Move to the touch no more,
No more his wife to gently clasp,
Death awes the soul all
o'er.
And does his heart
no more respond
To every kind appeal,
Wrapped in its more than icy bond,
In more than chains of
steel?
And must the tender
light we've met
So often in his eyes,
In death's eternal glare, be set?
Behold, behold, he dies.
And those ears
forever closed
To every earthly sound
To voice, to wail; the wind that blows;
Whilst weeping friends
surround?
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Hush!
what is that, that speaks? 'Tis death;
Death, with its silent voice;
Feel in that corpse, its icy breath;
Lo, there behold, no
choice.
Ye wife and
orphans, grieve no more,
Cease now thy useless fears,
Perhaps, upon a brighter shore
We'll meet, to shed
no tears.
And as the
valley's sod conceals
His form from earthly view,
In awful silence, God reveals
Almighty wisdom too.
He sleeps, Oh,
God! no other hand
Can wake that deep repose;
No power can break that unseen hand,
Save Christ, who
from it rose.
then,
since God decrees,
sever;
sees
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