(@3On the 150th anniversary of his aid to America@1) West Point has many monuments of note But that of Kosciusko towers high: A mighty base, and pointing toward the sky A Doric column on which chisels wrote: "The great and good." What tightens in your throat As eager eyes scan that beloved face -- Our hero and the hero of his race. Oh high bronze figure -- sword that never smote Except in freedom's cause! It was refused To Russia, lest its purpose be abused; Copernicus was born on that same plane That gave to Kosciusko vital breath; With Washington, he fought with sword and brain And in the land of William Tell ... met death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EGOISME A DEUX' by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON A POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER by ROBERT BURNS IN A BYE-CANAL by HERMAN MELVILLE THE DAY-DREAM: MORAL by ALFRED TENNYSON THE PALACE OF ART by ALFRED TENNYSON THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY |