Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THOMAS STARR KING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER



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First Line: The great work laid upon his twoscore years
Last Line: Your bridal service from his lips of gold?
Subject(s): King, Thomas Starr (1824-1864)


THE great work laid upon his twoscore years
Is done, and well done. If we drop our tears,
Who loved him as few men were ever loved,
We mourn no blighted hope nor broken plan
With him whose life stands rounded and approved
In the full growth and stature of a man.
Mingle, O bells, along the Western slope,
With your deep toll a sound of faith and hope!
Wave cheerily still, O banner, halfway down,
From thousand-masted bay and steepled town!
Let the strong organ with its loftiest swell
Lift the proud sorrow of the land, and tell
That the brave sower saw his ripened grain.
O East and West! O morn and sunset twain
No more forever! -- has he lived in vain
Who, priest of Freedom, made ye one, and told
Your bridal service from his lips of gold?





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