Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHARLES DICKENS; IN MEMORIAM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER



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CHARLES DICKENS; IN MEMORIAM, by                    
First Line: Thou master of thought and depicter of men
Last Line: Gives thee immortality.
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Praise; Writing & Writers


Thou master of thought and depicter of men
Whose soul has been burned in the works of thy pen,
Thy name is a lever which moves us again
To honor thy memory.

Humanity's friend and the Commoner's guide,
Apostle of hope and simplicity's pride,
Thy name shall endure till the oceans subside
And earth shows sterility.

No marble cut deep or no labored stone pile
Can fittingly tell of thy freedom from guile,
No ode poets write can thy death reconcile
To us of obscurity.

Thou hast smitten the rock, and waters of Truth
Have gushed like the fount of perpetual youth,
The Apple of Life felt the print of thy tooth,
Thou savant of history.

All precedent's form thou hast blasted like rock,
The pessimist's caves of despair felt the shock,
Thy teachings of hope and thy sanguineness mock
The false in philosophy.

Great souls shall endure until eons of years
Are gone like the mist and the earth disappears,
And Infinite Grace to which thy soul adheres
Gives thee immortality.





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