Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KOSCIUSKO, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT


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First Line: Tis like thy patient valour thus to keep
Last Line: Thou, and the country old, be still the same.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817)


'T IS like thy patient valour thus to keep,
Great Kosciusko, to the rural shade,
While freedom's ill-found amulet still is made
Pretence for old aggression, and a heap
Of selfish mockeries. There, as in the sweep
Of stormier fields, thou earnest with thy blade,
Transform'd, not inly alter'd, to the spade,
Thy never-yielding right to a calm sleep.
Nature, 't would seem, would leave to man's worse wit
The small and noisier parts of this world's frame,
And keep the calm green amplitudes of it
Sacred from fopperies and inconstant blame.
Cities may change, and sovereigns; but 't is fit,
Thou, and the country old, be still the same.





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