Lens and line Across the map deploy, Sight cornerstones Of man and boy. Between, where Oder And the Danube run, Are acres adequate For every son— Soil enough For geography and death Who requisitions but A shoulder's-breadth For one or more. He will not leave it less Who lays a boundary With bone and flesh— Boundary bone Plus loyal loin and lip— Proof determinate Of final map. Have plummet point, Let civil eye survey The fatal length of limb The coign of clay; Determine where This loyalty shall lie— Within, without whatever Field, what sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVELY CHANCE by SARA TEASDALE THE PLAINT OF THE CAMEL by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL THE PROBLEM by RALPH WALDO EMERSON RAIN IN SUMMER by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 54 by ALFRED TENNYSON SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALFRED TENNYSON THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE by JOHN WILMOT |