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Dinah Maria Mulock - A True Hero
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JAMES BRAIDWOOD: Died June 22, 1861.

NOT at the battle front,--writ of in story; 
Not on the blazing wreck steering to glory; 

Not while in martyr-pangs soul and flesh sever, 
Died he--this Hero new; hero forever. 

No pomp poetic crowned, no forms enchained him, 
No friends applauding watched, no foes arraigned him: 

Death found him there, without grandeur or beauty, 
Only an honest man doing his duty: 

Just a God-fearing man, simple and lowly, 
Constant at kirk and hearth, kindly as holy: 

Death found--and touched him with finger in flying:-- 
Lo! he rose up complete--hero undying. 

Now, all men mourn for him, lovingly raise him 
Up from his life obscure, chronicle, praise him; 

Tell his last act, done midst peril appalling, 
And the last word of cheer from his lips falling; 

Follow in multitudes to his grave`s portal; 
Leave him there, buried in honor immortal. 

So many a Hero walks unseen beside us, 
Till comes the supreme stroke sent to divide us. 

Then the LORD calls His own,--like this man, even, 
Carried, Elijah-like, fire-winged, to heaven.
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