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    Personal Poems II Part 2 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Personal Poems II Part 2 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Personal Poems II Part 2 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
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      Personal Poems II Part 2 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Title: Personal Poems II Part 2, From Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

      Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

      Release Date: December 2005 [EBook #9582] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on October 18, 2003]

      Edition: 10

      Language: English

      *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, PERSONAL POEMS, PART 2 ***

      This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net]

      PERSONAL POEMS

      BY

      JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      CONTENTS:

      THE CROSS THE HERO RANTOUL WILLIAM FORSTER TO CHARLES SUMNER BURNS TO GEORGE B. CHEEVER TO JAMES T. FIELDS THE MEMORY OF BURNS IN REMEMBRANCE OF JOSEPH STURGER BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE NAPLES A MEMORIAL BRYANT ON HIS BIRTHDAY THOMAS STARR KING LINES ON A FLY-LEAF GEORGE L. STEARNS GARIBALDI TO LYDIA MARIA CHILD THE SINGER HOW MARY GREW SUMNER THIERS FITZ-GREENE HALLECK WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT BAYARD TAYLOR OUR AUTOCRAT WITHIN THE GATE IN MEMORY: JAMES T. FIELDS WILSON THE POET AND THE CHILDREN A WELCOME TO LOWELL AN ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL MULFORD TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER SAMUEL J. TILDEN

      THE CROSS.

      Richard Dillingham, a young member of the Society of Friends, died in the Nashville penitentiary, where he was confined for the act of aiding the escape of fugitive slaves.

      "The cross, if rightly borne, shall be

      No burden, but support to thee;"

      So, moved of old time for our sake,

      The holy monk of Kempen spake.

      Thou brave and true one! upon whom

      Was laid the cross of martyrdom,

      How didst thou, in thy generous youth,

      Bear witness to this blessed truth!

      Thy cross of suffering and of shame

      A staff within thy hands became,

      In paths where faith alone could see

      The Master's steps supporting thee.

      Thine was the seed-time; God alone

      Beholds the end of what is sown;

      Beyond our vision, weak and dim,

      The harvest-time is hid with Him.

      Yet, unforgotten where it lies,

      That seed of generous sacrifice,

      Though seeming on the desert cast,

      Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last.

      1852.

      THE HERO.

      The hero of the incident related in this poem was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, the well-known philanthropist, who when a young man volunteered his aid in the Greek struggle for independence.

      "Oh for a knight like Bayard,

      Without reproach or fear;

      My light glove on his casque of steel,

      My love-knot on his spear!

      "Oh for the white plume floating

      Sad Zutphen's field above,—

      The lion heart in battle,

      The woman's heart in love!

      "Oh that man once more were manly,

      Woman's pride, and not her scorn:

      That once more the pale young mother

      Dared to boast `a man is born'!

      "But, now life's slumberous current

      No sun-bowed cascade wakes;

      No tall, heroic manhood

      The level dulness breaks.

      "Oh for a knight like Bayard,

      Without reproach or fear!

      My light glove on his casque of steel,

      My love-knot on his spear!"

      Then I said, my own heart throbbing

      To the time her proud pulse beat,

      "Life hath its regal natures yet,

      True, tender, brave, and sweet!

      "Smile not, fair unbeliever!

      One man, at least, I know,

      Who might wear the crest of Bayard

      Or Sidney's plume of snow.

      "Once, when over purple mountains

      Died away the Grecian sun,

      And the far Cyllenian ranges

      Paled and darkened, one by one,—

      "Fell the Turk, a bolt of thunder,

      Cleaving all the quiet sky,

      And against his sharp steel lightnings

      Stood the Suliote but to die.

      "Woe for the weak and halting!

      The crescent blazed behind

      A curving line of sabres,

      Like fire before the wind!

      "Last to fly, and first to rally,

      Rode he of whom I speak,

      When, groaning

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