Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOPE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN


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First Line: I heard the wails of grief and shame
Last Line: And set the heaven with fresh stars.
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


I HEARD the wails of grief and shame
When Priam's wall were wrapt in flame;
I stood within the Forum place,
When Vandal axe and Gothic mace
Battered the pride from Cæsar's face;
When Plague's foul legions filled the Seine
With corpses, and bestank the plain
Of France, from Paris to Lorraine;
When Flanders fell before the siege
That made the Spanish fiend her liege;
When Werewolves wrought a guillotine
For Louis and his fragile queen;
'T was I who staged anew the scene,
'T was I who wiped away the scars
And set the heaven with fresh stars.





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