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To The Memory Of The Rev. James Chisholm
Amidst the sick and dying, falling round,He stood the faithful Pastor, and the friend;
In every call of duty ready found,
And loving his own charge unto the end.
Chisholm! thy memory long shall cherished be
In every state of this our country wide,
Both South and North in one, the bond and free
Shall speak of thee with patriotic pride!
Thy gentle manners and thy loving heart
Thy friends and classmates long shall cherish here;
Called, in mid-life, from one they loved to part;
They drop, in sympathy, the falling tear,
With sorrowing kindred, that for thee shall weep,
Who now hath gone reward in heaven to reap.
Poem No. 44; 21 September 1855
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