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[struck: GORDON & BAILEY,
Attorneys at Law,
OFFICE, 2, 5, 6 & 8 THORPE BLOCK.]

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[struck: JONATHAN W. GORDON.
LEON O. BAILEY.]

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[struck: Indianapolis, Ind, 188_]

Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale."
[struck: and so to the end; but my thoughts are humbler
now; and. I accept dust and silence, feeling,
indeed, that it is hard, but accepting hardness
as is meek for]+ + + + + +

[struck: -"hearts to break and give no sign
Save whitening lips and fading tresses,
Till Death pours out his cordial wine
Slow - dropped from Misery's crushing presses;
and that] + + + + + + + +

[struck: "If singing breath or echoing chord
To every hidden pang were given,
What endless melodies were poured,
As sad as earth as sweet as heaven".]

It may be that there is light on the other side,
for me, and I humbly hope; and there, in
that light, with you, I may cease to regret
the failures of life here.

I am whether in hope or despair, alike
and always your friend.

J.W.Gordon.

Gen. C. M. Clay,
White - Hall, Ky.