Go forth, under the open sky, and list To nature's teachings. Thanatopsis. Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Ibid. The stormy March has come at last, With wind and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies. March. The groves were God's first temples. Forest Hymn. But 'neath yon crimson tree, Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, Autumn Woods. The Death of the Flowers. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : The Battle-Field. And fired the shot heard round the world. Hymn. At the completion of the Concord Monument. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. STRIKE for your altars and your fires; Strike for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Marco Bozzaris. Come to the mother's, when she feels, Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible-the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Marco Bozzaris. On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined,The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind. Burns. They love their land, because it is their own, * Cf. ROGERS. Jacqueline. SPRAGUE-LONGFELLOW. 341 CHARLES SPRAGUE. LO, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. Curiosity. Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends. Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze Ibid. TELL 'Life is but an empty dream !' For the soul is dead that slumbers, Art is long, and Time is fleeting.* *Life is short, and art is long. HIPPOCRATES. (Aphorismi.) For Time will teach thee soon the truth, Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Maidenhood. O suffering, sad humanity! Patient, though sorely tried! The Goblet of Life. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying, Resignation. Ibid. |