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Y a any neretoiore examinedA Comrade's Tribute.In speaking of the death of Elbert Patterson in Porto Rico J. F. Stewart, a member of Co. II, in a letter to a friend in this city, said:“Our poor little “Pat” is dead You have heard of it ere this. The father is broken-hearted. Every one liked Corporal “Pat, and his death came to us as a shock, for we had left him in division hospital in Guay am a apparently not very seriously ilk If you will turn to yo'ur copv of “David Ctpperfield,M to the last paragraph in the book, you will find some beautiful words which I have been thinking of since little “Pat's” death, butcannot quote.’’The quotation is as follows:“And oow, as I close mv task, subduing my desire to linger jet! these faces fade away. But one face, shining on me like a heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all. And that remains. I turn my head and see it, in its beautiful serenity beside me. My lamp burns low, mid I have written far into thenight, but the dear presence, without which I were nothing, bears me company. O, Agnes! O, my soul! So may thy face be by me wheo I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upwardIn JS87 Mr. Thomas MclDtosli. of4 - - *49wW:exi
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Wed, Nov 02, 1898
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