AGAIN the bugle-blow To meet the common foe Summons the daring. Can ye not hear the call Echo from every wall -- "Remember Waring"? He stormed the fetid street Where Death with rapid feet Strode fierce and glaring. Shall @3we@1 forget, alone, When every grateful stone Remembers Waring? He, to your service true; He, in his love of you Himself not sparing; Whom gold could not allure; Guardian of rich and poor -- Our soldier Waring! He found a wretched throng -- Rescued from ancient wrong -- New burdens bearing; And babes that he did save Cry from a later grave: "Remember Waring." He dared a tropic hell Of fever -- till he fell, And we, despairing, Knew that for us he died, And in our grieving cried: "Remember Waring!" Shall we be less than they Who make the poor their prey, No least one sparing? They praise him, though they fill Each tainted purse; @3they@1 still Remember Waring. How shall our deed atone That nowhere bronze or stone His name is bearing? His ashes in their urn With his old ardor burn, And plead, for Waring: "Oh, if the work I wrought Be to your memory aught, Now Greed is tearing The crown from Freedom's brow, @3Strike harder@1 that you now Remember Waring." Then, ere the heart grow cold, Let us on altars old New vows be swearing: "Perish the people's foe! Scorn for his tool!" and so Remember Waring. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VENUS IN A GARDEN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WHERE MY BOOKS GO by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS STANZAS FOR MUSIC (4) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM) by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE CASSANDRA by RICHARD BARNFIELD URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO LADY PENELOPE DYNHAM by WILLIAM BASSE FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |