The Herald, 1901-02-08, Page 3lN.
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Gracious Words Spoken of the Good
Queen Who Lies Dead.
The following tributes to the late
Queen have been gathered from
many coerces, and are offered as
tshowi.Ieg how world-wide was the es-
teem in which she funs held as a sou-
+eretgn sad as a ween e , i t s
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iDeath's Fa inai Conquest.,The glories of our blood and state
Are sliadowa, nob substantial things;
Thure is no armor against tate ;
Death lays his toy baud ou kings—
Seeptre artd crown.
/bust tumble down,
Andin the dust be equal made,
With the poor orooked scythe and svade.
Some men with swords may reap the fields,
And plant with laurels where they kill •
But their strong nerves at last must yield,
They tame but ono another still;
Early or late,
They stoop to fate.
and must give up their murmuring breath,
Wen they, Pale captives, creep to death. 0
fhe garlands wither on your brow.
Ten bonet no more your in ighty deeds ;
Upon death's purple attar, now,
See whore the victor victim bleeds !
All heads must come,
To the cold tomb.
Only the actions of the j ust
b'metloweet and blossom in the dust.
—James Shirley.
I The Bishop of Heron.
She has had under her all kinds of
aldlctittistrttktivaats—Slonserrative, Ile -
Them, Coalition; she has governed in
times of pe'ofonndeet peace, and dur-
i g the fiercest of sanguinary wars,
and yet has come out after all with
herr character, if possible, more hon
orad and esteemed than at the first.
The Metropolitan. of Ontario.
:d virtuous example eau. never be de-
stroyed. Teas 'is the thousandth year
since the death of that King whom
the world has always called great,
and this year begtus the Immortal
memory of Victoria the Great. It is
too soon as yett, calmly to sum up her
greatness, but her life, her reign and
character will live so long as the his-
tory of TIngland has to be written.
Governor Van Saut, llbinnesota.
No higher tribute can be paid to
the memory of Her Majesty than by
stating that through her influence
human life and human sentiment have
been .elevated, and all that was pure
and noble was exemplified in her every
act.
Rev. Elmore Barris, D. D.
It is as object season to the world
that one should rise to such a dizzy
height as Queen Victoria has attain-
ed and still keep the head well-bal-
anced in all matters of state, and
the heart tender In hist sympathies
far all kinds of sorrow.,
+ la S. Congressman. Bell, Colorado.
Queen Victoria's death will tender-
ly tote h more people with a sting
of genuine sorrow than any other
demise in recorded time. Her exem-
plary motherhood make her a subject
of adoration everywhere. Seer un-
swerving and steadfast sympathy for
the ilnfortunate in all lands, through-
out her long reign, hoot indelibly im-
parress.ed her noble character upon the
teatrts of all lovers of justice as au
example worthy of the emulation of
enainkind.
Mr, Quimby, Detroit Free Press.
As a wife, as a mother, as a.
woman, she has commanded the re-
spect of the civilized world, regard -
2 of notional and racial. hatreds.
She hart been looked upon not only as
a mother to liar family, but as a mo-
ther to leer people.
C. I3. Smith, Buffalo Courier.
Apart fromher uwll subjects of
Caucasian blood, no people may
Mourn the p-rssing away of queen
Victoria with more eineerity than
ohm of the United States. Appreciat-
ing her exalted character, tate un-
varying goodness of her remarkable
life, they are also accustomed to re-
cognize the Vietorian era ns to titin
time ahnost the measure of their
own developmetit ire national great -
nes and to popular enlightenment.
3V. II.'ii`'uek, C. J. N. 13. Supreme Court,
Her life wee pare and her reign
magnificent, perhaps the most iilus-
teious in the history of England. The
Queen's influence in advancing the in-
terests of the British Empire and
promoting the happiness of Its peo-
ple has always been powerful, during
her long reign.
The Bishop of Nova Scotia.
Queen Victoria has given the most
conspicuous example of a self-denying
Women, through love, setting herself
to the fulfilment of her Juty towards
her people,• her hush and, her children,
and hor friends; and in return being
loved by them all as, perhaps, no
other wom•in, certainly no other
Queen. ever before.
lielaeWilittetheatialliallichrtalt, me!
AT''FHE COFFIN.
"Here she Both, white and chill,
Put your hand upon her brow,
Por her heart is very stili
And she doers not know" you now.
"Ale the grave's a quiet bed l
Site shalt sleep a pleasant sleep. �l
And the tears that you may shed
Will not wake her—therefore weop!
"Weep ter youhavo wrought her woel
Mourn—she mourned it died for
o t know' 1 oU,
Ah ! too lata we nom A ,
• What is false and what`��ue,"
++rank.
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Otey. jr.Dla. Duffield, New York.
• (She was a queenly Queen. She was
wolne lyy woman, She Was eriutncd
gg�� .,,th stainless parity. She Was sceptred
Ith boundless devotion to the good
of others. She was diademed with
obligates faith and she incarnated the
l noblest ideate of the AnglotSaxon
race.
Rev. Dr. Wylie. New York.
1 Oho ememlililied is her life the
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valuable qualities of simplicity caul
economy, and she was rich lit womanly
sympathy.' The world will not soou
forget her tenderness toward Empress
Eugenie, Mrs. Garfield and Princess
Beatrice, all of whom, like the Queen,
bad felt deep mad poignant grief.
One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin.' Then, too, Victoria was
interested in everything which tended
to elevate women,. Srhe was a queen
In. her home, and believed that Home
was pre-eminently woman's real
Sphere, where she would shone as a
queen. -- ,
Leslie's Weekly.
The United States was in the midst
of the "era of good feeling" when
Victoria was born- Monroe has had
twenty successors In the Presidency
since that time. This country had only
9,000 000 population then. Buffalo
and Pittsburg were frontier towns,
and not a house, existed oil the site
of the manifieent metropolis of the
west, Chicago.
Rev, Dr. Morgan Dix, New York.
Look at the time when. she gave
her heart to the one inin she loved.
Her wedded life put to shame the
frivolities and follies that surroundej
her. After her husba.nd's death the
bre kenrhearted Q,ueot,. with a deep
scar on. her heart, was a model of wo-
manhood.
Rev, Dr. rl:tcArthur. Neiv York.
Her dominion was not limiter] to
the confines of the British Empire.
She ruled with a sceptre over all
c'nt. Iter ]onto; reign constitutes at
bright epoch in British hie-tole,.'The
htte.ut:sslon is uncluctlle,:g,e.t ; the MAY
i' 1 ug aasexunca lets untie wan the
affeotien and confidence of tate ]leo'
Ole.
ileo B. Reeve,• Vice -President and
General Manager G.. T. R.
In the death of our beloved Queen,
the Britten. Empire loses a hover-
eign whose actions and love Sot
tier people, endeared her to every
heart. She was a woman whose
tame was held .in highest esteem by
all nations. Her death is a great
loss to the civilized world generally.
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" STRONO AS DEATH."
4. ---
n Death, when thou shalt conte tome
Out of the dark—where she is now,
• at no faint perfume cling to thee,
▪ te withered roses on thy brow. +
qCome not. 0 Death. with hollow tone +{'
And sound loss step and clsninyhand—
Le. I am now no foss alone
4 Than in thy desolate. doubtfullaed ! w
v
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Ent wblithc-nt)—
that sweet: and subtle tri nb,
That ever cltp' about her—tench
+ As with all things, she brushed was +4
+
• And with her quick and tender touch.
▪ With the dim geld that lit her hair, +
+ Crown thyself. Death; let falltbytread
• So light that 1 may dream her there,
+ And cairn upon my dying bed.
w And through my chilling veins sba11
flame
0
• My10 vc, us though beneath her breath; +
+ And in her voice but call my name. 4,
• And 1 will follow thee, ()Death.
—Ii, C. Bteu•Nrrere
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Duo De Areas, Spanish Minister at
Waashington.
Her prolonged reign has marked
the highest point of national pros-
perity. and her history can be sum-
med up in three phrases ; she was
a good wife, a good mother and a
good Queen.
Sir Tek Mho, Korean Minister to ,U.S.
The dead Queen's reign was an ex-
emplary one ; personally, her per-
fect domestic life, her affection for
her subjects, added to wisdom and
day rp out i:t loovr+ for h'.u', . artd
telepathy thy foe tie Bathe' people,
1tui1 i 'Lisa more stately tnaae1one, 0,
tny' ti011l,
cttt: the Swift setLsoae roll ;
heave 'thy loiv vaulted past
Lot each new temple, noble,t• than
the hurt,
Shut thexe frust heaven with a donee
more Vast,
'roll thou at length art free.
Leaving thine out -grown tont:!i by
life% 3utl'estieg sett 1
—Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Rev. Dr. Briggs, Toronto,
The beauty and ctimpliclty of her
life was a gracious and potent in-
fluence in all those years, and will
Continue so to be for many genera-
tions yet to cotne. We'sliall not look
upon her like again_
Leslie's Weekly.
The life of Queen Victoria spanned
the most wonderful years of the most
wonderful century that the world
has ever seen. Other Sovereigns have
lived almost as long, but, if measured
by achievements rather than by per-
iods of time England itself, and all
the world v ;t:i it, moved farther
tiling during the eighty-two years of
Victoria's life than dieing the reigns
of all the men and women; who ' had
preceded her on the Englieli throne.
Mgr. O'Brien, 1rt'hblthrp of Halifax.
It is safe to say Milt for millions
iu England, the Queena conduct was
that standard. Bence the blameless-
ness of her public, and 'the purity of
her domestic life, purified the mal -
Odorous atmosphere of the court, and
sweetened the air in the halts of the
wealthy, an.d around the lowly hearths
of the poor. 'This has been the great-
est blessing to England of her length-
ened career.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent
tread 6
He bears our best loved things
away,.
And then we call them "dead."
—Me.L'reery.
E. 11, 0lemeat, :Editor Boston Tragert
Oripe.
V'letoria has exhibited the British
system workiug at its best.eand her
rogime will evor ecSve to present tone
ideal sovereiga of a free people, reign-
tug its full and perfect dignity, and yet'
leaving the people to govern.
W. Terrine, Editor Philadelphia Bei-
lean. ,
The influence of Victoria's life has
been on the side of things of good re-
port, of religion, and of virtue, and
the royal institution in her hands has
thus retained a respect which, in , an
ago when democratic ideas have made
progress among her subjects, would
have been greatly lessened under the
itt:ign ofa store brilliant but less Or-
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triose lwon]tl31.--
There is no death 1 Tho stars go
down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown
They shine 'forevermore.
McOreery.
Bishop Satterlee's Tribute.
In an eloquent tribute to the late
Queen, Bishop Satterlee, of Washing-
ton, D. C., said to -day:
"For the world is a better world
for the Queen's life as a, servant of
Clod. There are ramie characters so
pure, so true and unselfish in their
unaffected simplicity. that they be-
long not only to their own country
but to the world at large. Some-
thing is there in the quality of their
lives which enriches human history,
and matesstronger our faith in hu-
man nature itself. Such was Queen
Victoria. To the English nation,
Her Majesty. with. the sceptre of the
British Etnpire in her hand was first
the sovereign then the woman. To
the people of other laude she was
first the woman and then the Queen ;
—an example of true womanhood and
royalty, so harmoniously blended to-
gether into one that by God's good
help she was able to transfer those
lnsidious temptations to evil which
encompasses the Royal palace into
opportunititie for doing. good; and so
to the life for three -score years un-
der the fiery light which beater upon
a throne that all her people are
KING EDWARD VII. AND 1115 QUEEN.
Zai.er. e.4.a��.t 7wt4iilat
true women and noble men around
the world. To her, as daughter,
wife, mother, widow, Queen aud
woman, more hearts went out til
love than to any outer woman of
the human race.'
LIFE~ EVER. 4
When light unveiled. her radiant face, ei
And wrapped the worlcl.to her embrace; +
When intopplace the planets swung— •p
This Bong t}tc heavenly choir su ng: 4.
0 sacred pulse 1 0 law divine 1 ✓,»
All purpose and ell power Is thine, •14
Death. ucverl •1•
Life ever and forever 1" 4
And still that grand, triumphal song •P
Thrills through all nature, deep and d•
[strong ; 4•
And still Vibrating, high and iow, •
IL sots the continents aglow; •
And in the ocean's sob and roar +
It sounds and speaks forevermore:
" Death, never 1
Life ever and forever 1"
0 human soul—a spark of love --
round thee, earth-environod, novo c'
lialeidoseenic forms to -day ; +
To-merrow thou art oh thy way •
To fairer plains and sweeter skies 1 +
And still the thrilling anthems rise: 4.
-Datil, never 1 41'
Life ever and forever 1"
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Rev. Dr. 111111e, Now York.
In 1887, when Victoria ascended
the throne the Iawis of England, one
of her jurists said, were written
for the corrupt and the rich. When
solo left the throne they were a
staff and a bulwark for the poor.
Rev. Dr. Cadman, News York.
Victoria Was as the lily growing
upon an iceberg, with sotto ing of
promise in her ancestry save the
common sense and piety of her
mother, Who resolutely kept her
from the defiieinent of a diseolnte
court, sd that when she ascended
tato throne she rose full orbed and
splendid and emitted an epoch.
J. W. Longley, Attorney -General+
Nowa Scotia,
The great functions of poliey are
vested in the Ministers of the
Crown, but in the high position
Which eche held so long, Queen Vic-
toria displayed both intelligence and
wlsalont. Her influence generally
tlirotagliont the Empire and thb
world hair been elevating and pot -
justice, won lior the praisos of all
nations. ---
11. S. Congreesman Cummings, Whitt-
ington.
Victoria's reign is the fertilizing
epoch In the liistory of England. The
nation has been far more product-
ive in civilization, commercial ac-
tivity, literature, science, arts and
invention,
tonin ever before. She
was far greater, in any estimation,
than Queen Elizabeth
Lerner Gouin, Con,. I'ub. Werke-,
Quebec.
Among England's monarchs none
nnderst,od or fulfilled bettor than
the late Queen the duties of sover-
eignty. She endeared herself to her
people to a degree unattained by
any of her predecessors. She was one
of the meat powerful .factors that
made for good in the world, both by
precept and example.
Henry L. Stoddart, N. Y. Mali and
Express.
It is •worth something, nay every-
thing, to the world to have it denm-
enstrated in each generation that
under the weight of responsibilities
and in the midst of the emblems of
power the heart may be kept fresh
and unspotted from the world.
Net that Victoria was au womanly
woman or a queenly Queen, but that
she Ives no less a sovereign because
she wale a woman, and less a woman
because she was a Queen, Is the
chief distinction of Victoria. It is a
rare oombination of regal qualities
and feminine sympathies held 10 per-
fect poise that make her illustrious
among the women of history.
Wm. J. ]:Frye, U, S. Senator.
Wo nem-eel:Ito her pure, steadfast
womanly character, her devotion to
the inte:reets of her people, to the ad-
vanoe of Christine civilization, to all
good works.
A. D. Handler, Governor of Georgia.
When, Queen Vletorta dies the great-
est and best monarch who hag wielded
to sceptre in a thousand years Wiil
hare passed froin nixie f.o eternity.
The hoartr of the civilized world tore
Rev. Dr. Withrow, Torouta.
Not the war -lino valour of a, Beaixd-
ioea or a Sbntiraunis, but that in her
]sigh station she preserved the gent-
ler grime of womanhood, of truest
devotion to her people's weal, are ber
truest title lee the homage of our
hearts.
Rev. Dr. CareeP, Brooklyn.
In the beginning of her reign the
young Queou gave a pledge that her
life 61.10n Id be devoted to the happi-
ness of her subject;- During slaty -
tour years of faithful rule she re-
deemed that pledge, and when she
surrendered her sceptre the other
day at the call of God the heart of
the 'world was touched."
0 belle that toll in every zone and
clime! •
Theme is a sound of sobbing in Your
breath.
East. west, north, south, the sol-
emn clamor goes,
Voicing a great, a universal grief
Bishop Satterlee, Washington.
In her long reign, she has set a
shining example to all the world
of what a true Sovereign should be,
apd this cannot but influence the
future history of civilization. No wee
'Man of the whole nineteenth cau-
tery, nay X could go even further
and say that no woman in the
Christian era, line weeded so won-
derful on influence for goon, and fu-
ture tatieeations shall rise up and
call her blessed.
A, A.. Maedonnid, LienteGov. P. E. I.
By her pure and upright Life, her
righteousness anct her charity, by her
strait observance to the laws of God
and of her country ; by her conduct
as maiden, mother, widow, Q,11004.1 and
Empress, through all her lortg 1110 ancd
glorious meta, she merited and re•
ceived our loving loyaln;p.
There ie no death --the thieg that
we call death
I's but another, sadder name for life,
'Which is itself an insuffieient name,
itaint recognition of that =known
Life•--
That Power whose shadow is the
fUelverise.
i 1 . , r-altoddart.
joining, with alt her own children in
rising tip to call her blessed."
The Marquis of Scali._obnry and the
Earl of Kimberley, in their remarks
about the lute Queen in the douse of
Horde, i -poke from the point of view
of men. who lied hed !ow and intimate
perstcn,nt association with Iler Mat
j;'soy. They agreed its, tit'ri'ibing her
a,'4 a. wise and prudent Ad—item wito:•tr
opinions aiwatye exerelee l a str?Aig
irttluetiee over her Nit'isters. Tier
knowledge of tate annul of public op].tt-
len wa:r wonderful, end is incised dif-
ficult to explain. I;. is orein:ally
Httpp0.5eed tlirtt tite 3iinititsrs who are
the Qiieen'rt constitutional advisers
for the tines' being have to find out
vehn.t the people wont and convey the
information to the Sovereign, but
Lord Salisbury, dee'laarce., that "when
he teak what the Queen thonaht lie
know for n. t rtrtninty avlt.it her sub-
ots would think, etp.•ci•ili;r the middle
clitsies." Lord Kimberley, whose Cnb-
inet experience slates brick farther
than. that of Lord Salisbury, had been
amazed at the sound, real knowle r,:
tits QOM, phseessed of rt!1 important.
Affairs. We cannot believe that theee
n.re mere empty compliments. Melt
Ilke Lords Salisbury anti Kimberley
Would not usn such language anticss it
was true. 1VItr•tt thaw say goes to
shrew that her lite Majesty did not
regatrd her position n14 a sineertre, but
studied and regarded the tenets and
svichee cif the people. Yet the lessen
eouveynd by these statements is not
that Ministers should depend upon the
Sovereign to interpret the popular
will. There have bona, and there may
be again, kings and gtaeens whose in-
-titres -le and Wishes wl'l conflict seri-
ously with those of their subjects. A
-ase in point is that of George III.,
Who wo.s so bitterly opposed to Cattli-
olio Emanctp'ttion, Whim Ttfinlsters
lend people were prepared to greet
it. Q,oren Victoria wits lunch mere
real enable and less egotistirwti : the
gave more -thought to the good of
others, and for that reason she will
long bet remembered With the kindest
feelings+
1>US'I' '1'0 OUST.
"Tread lightly, bow the head, in
reverent silence raw." Monday the
body of our well-beklved Queen, Vic.
torte the Good, Wats eoulmitted to the
earth. In every quarter of the v
the . pe e:phole of "decent mourn
have bean clisplttyed, and
mends al the popple hta.ve
directed to tt. eor sideration of
virtmee Of lier Who is gone, loor
than al.aty years she was the cel
figure of` a mighty Empire, e
old age came upon her the love;
devotion of her people incase(
maid, wife and widow, she had f
good example 'to her subjects, ant;
tory will declare that she wroug
revolution, not only in the eternal .
but in the national oharacter o1
people, the effects of which wenno means confined. within the l
of her own dominions, Women
particular reason to be thankful '.
the throne of Britain has 'been s
occupied by so good a Queen, fo. <'!
homage paid to her has been al
portant factor in the improve
of their legal and social positio
The marching of soldiers and
bodmtug of cannon are taadit:I
methods of denoting funereal g Il
But the real mourning is,
the hearts of the people, who
member that the Queen loved gin
spiritual worship; that she used.
teeeh her servants in a Bible ell S
and that site sympathized with
their joys and their sorrows. "W
stop Churchill's mother even a..
that the Queen may be counted
Olbe of the victims of the Naar
South. Africa, because every defe
every unsuccessful skirmish, the l
or the wounding of every brave
direr, was personal to her.
Such a Queen, such a woman
not soon be forgotten. Books
be written, from which the reeor
her virtues and of the achievemt
of her reign may be learned by t
erations yet to come. Those •
are alive today will tell t.
children and their children's r
dren how all classes mo -
ed at Queen Victoria's death,
laid aside the cares of business
,i o honor to her memory. Her
vivors have yet wore to do, di
to perform, tasks to complete,
their turn conies to lay down
burden. Site would not have
waste time in unnecessary mourt
In the days of her own sorrow, v
husband, another, daughter and •
were called away, the Queen did
forget nor neglect her duty to
living, and the example she seta
be followed. The same loyalty
was felt for Queen Victoria, is
to King Edward. The same Indo
and enterprise which enriched
oitreng-tltenedthe British Empire
1887 to 1901 aro needed to hold
we leave. Queen Victoria did
take".After me the deluge" for
motto. She ruled in such a wa
to lighten the tasks of those
should succeed her, and she prep
the way for the greater thing -
come. In a short time, the idet
the people will become adjuste
the new conditions, and loyal
jects will work together to make
reign of King Edward outshine
that of Queen Victoria.—Editor.
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TO _DEATH.
.l. "ODeath, where is thy stings"
Thou grim and awesome Conqueror
Life.
Beneath whose shadow, dread, tl
mighty quail ;
4. Who sounds the tyrant's doom; who
4' gory knit,
+i• Spares nottholustnorheeds anchor
4!. wail;
Whose ruthless stroke by eight u
guided. wild
Yet certain, sprites alike both serf at
king 'a
j Who ch; td mother's tears ; despot
the+• Thou ravisher of joy, thou hideoi
• Cn .
+ 1 by art thou, Death i
'+1' s . a i ., b M M
,1, Who lohtvoth Gotl no touch of urine ma
+l+ fear.
,l, I yield but clay, not spirit, to th
+ grave.
Despair's uo:ueasurod depth of angulsi
dear,
• Yawns vain for him who calls tit
+ Lord to save.
• Eternity in mine, and. when no more
+ On reefs of 7`ime the earth -spent sou
y*. is hurled,
+ Thou those the rescuing hands to boa
+ ashore
+ Andworld. awing the portals of a k-indo
•
+ For Death is Life.
•sL tilat•nzCO CLIFFORD JenNBote
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The Albert mausoleum at Frogan4
where the Queen's body is entuml
and a picture of which is given.
another part of this paper. is buil•
the royal cemetery a,t Frogmore
tree -sheltered spot just behind
Tea House. It is a more impos
strectnre than that of the Duel
of Kent, near by, being shaped
as cross, and the flight of gran
,lupe is guarded by bronze figs
• of angels. Within the mausole
eight winetowe, in a blue and g
cupola, light up the marble piii:
the golden walls, the inlaid floor :
the ]lat1d1.Ome frescoes. Its the e
ire of the meemoleum is .Prince
bert's tomb, on which lies a figure
the prince. Most impressive of
and a sight that always affee
those who were privilege& to en'
was an empty place by the print
Miele. It was nothing' but a goad ie
ble slab, marking the place wh
the Queen was to lie. She often en
to the spot to pray. Nosv «ho to
her place there for all time.
trees surrounding the mausdle
have been planted by the -aril
members of the royal family.
While many of the Sovereigns w
have preceded Queen Vitoria h: '
been, buried in Westminster Alan
quiet a manlier have found a restl
place in or about 11'itidsor. Gem
II. was the last to he interred in t
Abbeee Besides the Hater Sovereig;
who sleep at 'Windsor, Henry y
Edward Ia., Henry VIII. and Char.
I, axe buried there. Progmore
abort half a. mite from Wintitp t'+
Mre. Eliza Kaiser, Mollis titre;
Halifax, heptad to make Queen V:
toria's bridal and eoronation robe
She was then Eliza Thistleton, ra
the snows of eighty-five vent -ere hz
not whitened her locks The u
buoy loves to relate her share: in tl
marling of the Royal finery, and ",
tell of her meetings with nietuhei'
of the Queen's household. ,