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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY A PATRIOT'S GRAVE, by CARLYLE FERREN MACINTYRE
First Line: Here lies a great heart seeping in the soil
Last Line: Red hecatombs before the whirlwind strewn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F.
Subject(s): Graves; Patriotism; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Here lies a great heart seeping in the soil
Last Line: Red hecatombs before the whirlwind strewn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F.
Subject(s): Graves; Patriotism; Tombs; Tombstones
Here lies a great heart seeping in the soil
of her he loved more fiercely than his life:
the land his personal penance would assoil.
Here is the cornerstone for new belief
where we must back our oath: strongly to follow
a quarry not in view but which his horn
once started fleeing down fields too long fallow,
in easier days when we were not yet born.
Stark is the enterprise, the failure stern,
and wager leaves us rearward of his mark.
So, holier now the duty in this murk
whose need is martyrs bred of his stout strain.
Grip hands and dedicate him to this work:
red hecatombs before the whirlwind strewn.
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