Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOUNT VERNON, by ARTHUR PETERSON


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First Line: Still stands the mansion; still before it sweeps
Last Line: Beloved he died, at peace with god and man.
Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The


Still stands the mansion; still before it sweeps
The broad Potomac. As, in days of eld,
This noble spectacle his eyes beheld,
So do mine now; Nature her beauty keeps.
But he is gone; the good, the wise, the great.
As o'er the hill, and past the simple tomb,
And through the house I wander, room by room,
Thoughts of that life heroic congregate.
Here, till his country called, he dwelt, content;
Then, like the Roman, chose a soldier's lot;
Brought peace unto a land by discord rent;
And, dying, left a name without a blot.
Beloved he lived, and, ending life's brief span,
Beloved he died, at peace with God and man.





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