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GROVER CLEVELAND, by JOEL BENTON Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring cypress, rosemary and rue
Last Line: Where washington and lincoln are.
Subject(s): Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
First Line: Bring cypress, rosemary and rue
Last Line: Where washington and lincoln are.
Subject(s): Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
BRING cypress, rosemary and rue
For him who kept his rudder true;
Who held to right the people's will,
And for whose foes we love him still.
A man of Plutarch's marble mold,
Of virtues strong and manifold,
Who spurned the incense of the hour,
And made the nation's weal his dower.
His sturdy, rugged sense of right
Put selfish purpose out of sight;
Slowly he thought, but long and well,
With temper imperturbable.
Bring cypress, rosemary and rue
For him who kept his rudder true;
Who went at dawn to that high star
Where Washington and Lincoln are.
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