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SONNET: TO DEAD GLADSTONE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tribune of peoples! Lover of god and right
Last Line: Thou pulsest in the heart of new-born italy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)


TRIBUNE of Peoples! Lover of God and Right:
Champion of Man and Freedom! Slow but strong
Was thy recoil from vested Force and Wrong
To lead the battle of the Sons of Light!
"A State should have a Conscience!"—Broods of Night
And War and Darkness scattered at that word:
Greed's woven mesh was cleft as with a sword
Held in young Michael's grasping. Up the height
The New Day broadened far by land and sea.
Thy spell was cast on dreary dull finance
Forging it to an arm for Liberty,
For Life's sweet uses and for Toil's romance.
The Slav, Armenia, Erin weep for thee:
Thou pulsest in the heart of new-born Italy!





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