Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SILENT MESSAGE, by JAMES H. TUCKLEY


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THE SILENT MESSAGE, by                    
First Line: City of throbbing wheels and marts
Last Line: "remember god, remember god!"


City of throbbing wheels and marts,
Where thrive all nations and all arts,
What cheer, what cheer brings in this year,
This white commemorative year?
Is there a voice to reach men's hearts?
Old First's brown ancient spire alway
Points up from the soil
Where the Founders trod,
Points up from the moil
Where the myriads plod,
From the scenes of toil,
From the sacred sod,
And seems to say in a silent way,
"Remember God, remember God!"

O driven minds, O frantic feet,
O surging throngs of shop and street,
Is ever hush upon your soul,
Is ever pause, to see life whole,
Or is this life, this feverish heat?
Lone spokesman of an older day,
That spire, like a finger of faith, alway
Points up from the soil
Where the Founders trod,
Points up from the moil
Where the myriads plod,
From the scenes of toil,
From the sacred sod,
And seems to say in a pleading way,
"Remember God, remember God!"

O ye who seek with purblind sight
The frantic day's more frantic night,
Why in your pleasure gleam so plain
The tense and pallid looks of pain
Beneath the incandescents white?
Lone spokesman of an older day,
Old First's dim looming spire alway
Points up from the soil
Where the Founders trod,
From the scenes of toil,
From the sacred sod,
Points up from the moil
Where the myriads plod,
And seems to say in a warning way,
"Remember God, remember God!"

O little shadowy graveyard old,
Where lie the ancient true and bold,
Are these, long pent in dusty cell,
The very lives men loved so well,
Or is this but their bodies' mould?
Lone spokesman of an older day,
That spire, like a finger of faith, alway
Points up from the soil
Where the Founders trod,
Points up from the moil
Where the myriads plod,
From the scenes of toil,
From the sacred sod,
And seems to say in a hopeful way,
"Remember God, remember God!"





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