Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GEORGE RIPLEY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH



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First Line: Warm, generous and young in heart and brain
Last Line: Whose souls toward truth and not its semblance, tend.
Subject(s): Life; Ripley, George (1802-1880); Soul


WARM, generous and young in heart and brain,
A wise, ripe scholar of the antique mould,
Had he but chosen he might have enrolled
His name among philosophers who gain
Renown, and lead an academic train.
But unambitious in a humbler fold --
Humbler yet wider -- he the current told
Of others' thoughts and works in graceful strain.
So from his watch-tower calm the public mind
He charmed and wisely led. Still young in age,
And still in fireside talk the cordial friend,
He read between the lines upon life's page
The deeper meaning those alone can find
Whose souls toward truth and not its semblance, tend.





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