In Memory of
John Lothrop Motley
by William Cullen Bryant (1794�1878) |
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SLEEP, Motley, with the great of ancient days,
Who
wrote for all the years that yet shall be!
Sleep with
Herodotus, whose name and praise
Have reached the isles
of earth's remotest sea;
Sleep, while, defiant of the
slow decays
Of time, thy glorious writings speak for
thee,
And in the answering heart of millions raise
The
generous zeal for Right and Liberty.
And should the day
o'ertake us when, at last,
The silence�that, ere yet a
human pen
Had traced the slenderest record of the past,
Hushed the primeval languages of men�
Upon our English
tongue its spell shall cast,
Thy memory shall perish only
then. |
By William Cullen Bryant (1794�1878)
Listed June 4, 2013 |
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