SHALL we conceal the Case, or tell it - We who believe the evidence? Here and there the watch-towers knell it With a sullen significance, Heard of the few who hearken intently and carry an eagerly upstrained sense. Hearts that are happiest hold not by it; Better we let, then, the old view reign: Since there is peace in that, why decry it? Since there is comfort, why disdain? Note not the pigment so long as the painting determines humanity's joy and pain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIRTHDAY OF DANIEL WEBSTER by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE FINDING OF THE LYRE by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL CROSSING THE PLAINS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER EROS TURANNOS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 1770 by PHILLIS WHEATLEY SCHUBERT'S (UNFINISHED) SYMPHONY by FRANCES BARTLETT |