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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
195
While
these
demonstrations
continued,
every
opposing
voice
was
hushed
in
the
chorus
of
national
rejoicing;
yet
some
there
were,
no
doubt,
who
looked
on
with
silent
envy
or
whispered
detraction.
But
who
could
grudge
these
honors
to
the
hero
of
the
hour--honors
so
hardly
won,
and
which,
as
it
proved,
were
soon
to
give
place
to
harsh
censures
and
unjust
imputations?
Alas
for
all
human
glory!
Its
paths
lead
but
to
the
grave.
Death
is
the
end
of
human
ambition.
The
very
day
that
a
whole
city
rose
up
to
do
honor
to
the
Atlantic
Telegraph
and
its
author,
it
gave
its
last
throb,
and
that
first
cable
was
thenceforth
to
sleep
for
ever
silent
in
its
ocean
grave.
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