English poem
This may not wake the poet's verse
by Charles Sprague (1857–1902)
This may not wake the poet's verse, This souls of fire may ne'er rehearse In crowd-delighting voice; Yet o'er the record shall the patriot bend, His quiet praise the moralist shall lend, And all the good rejoice.
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- Take then my prayer, Ye dwellers of this spot
- The sceptre's might, the crosier's pride
- They come--that coming who shall tell
- This be our story then, in that far day
- We call them savage--O be just
- When Israel's race from bondage fled
- Ye mothers, too, breathe ye no sigh
- Yet while by life's endearments crowned