Grover Cleveland
by Joel Benton (1832�1911) |
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Bring cypress, rosemary and rue
For him who kept his
rudder true;
Who held to right the people's will,
And
for whose foes we love him still.
A man of Plutarch's
marble mould,
Of virtues strong and manifold,
Who
spurned the incense of the hour,
And made the nation's
weal his dower.
His sturdy, rugged sense of right
Put selfish purpose out of sight;
Slowly he thought, but
long and well,
With temper imperturbable.
Bring
cypress, rosemary and rue
For him who kept his rudder
true;
Who went at dawn to that high star
Where
Washington and Lincoln are. |
By Joel Benton (1832�1911)
Listed October 1, 2012Note: On June 24, 1908, Grover
Cleveland, twice
President of the United States, died at
his home
in Princeton, N. J., at the age of seventy-one.
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