Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, J. T. TROWBRIDGE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Friend of the boys! Though time has many a crown
Last Line: Write him as one that loves his fellow boys!
Subject(s): Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827-1916)


Friend of the boys! Though Time has many a crown
For your benignant head, -- among the rest
The poet's and the novelist's renown, --
This is the chief, the happiest and best.

Yes, and for you the proudest; for you know,
When other souls by specious lures are caught,
The hearts of boys are candid as the snow,
Untricked, unterrified, unbent, unbought.

Who writes for boys must see the things that are,
And write the things he sees with buoyant truth;
Ever his soul must know the morning star,
The glad, good secret of eternal youth.

"Write him as one that loves his fellow men," --
What higher praise the tongue of man employs?
Ah, this, with softer voice, with mellower pen:
Write him as one that loves his fellow boys!





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