Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IMPLORA PACE, by CHARLES LOTIN HILDRETH


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IMPLORA PACE, by                    
First Line: I stood within the cypress gloom
Last Line: "peace I implore!"" and this alone."
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


I STOOD within the cypress gloom
Where old Ferrara's dead are laid,
And mused on many a sculptured tomb,
Moss-grown and mouldering in the shade.

And there was one the eye might pass,
And careless foot might tread upon
A crumbling tablet in the grass,
With weeds and wild vines overrun.
In the dim light I stooped to trace
The lines the time-worn marble bore,
Of reverent praise or prayer for grace --
"Implora Pace!" -- nothing more.

Name, fame, and rank, if any were,
Had long since vanished from the stone,
Leaving the meek, pathetic prayer,
"Peace I implore!" and this alone.





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