The everlasting Wisdom has ordained That this rare Soul, His earthly service done Shall leave the peoples over whom he reigned For other service at a higher Throne, Where Life's rewarders sing at Triumph won In nobleness attempted and attained Through years more terrible than any known. What is a Nation's love? No little thing: A vast dumb tenderness beyond all price; Surely a power of prayer upon a wing; The living anguish of a hope to heal Offered by all hearts here in sacrifice To spirits bowed in sorrow for the King That it may touch, to comfort or anneal. May this devotion help them in their grief. May the devotion kindle to resolve To make this stricken country green with leaf Glad with another hope to be again A Sun about which singing orbs revolve A Kingdom grown so worthy of her Chief That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUNKER HILL by GEORGE HENRY CALVERT TO THE WATER NYMPHS DRINKING AT THE FOUNTAIN by ROBERT HERRICK EPIGRAM: PERJURY by ROBERT NUGENT AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A SNOWFLAKE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 17. THE DIFFICULT ADVENTURE by PHILIP AYRES THE HOUSE-WARMING; A LEGEND OF BLEEDING-HEART YARD by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |