Poem Delivered Before the Society of United Brothers, At Brown University, On the Day Preceding Commencement
Poem Delivered Before the Society of United Brothers, At Brown University, On the Day Preceding Commencement
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
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and awake to Fame! Her lips Closed with an earnest sweetness, and she sat Gazing into his eyes as if her look Searched their dark orbs for answer. The warm blood Into his temples mounted, and across His countenance the flush of passionate thoughts Passed with irresolute quickness. He rose up And paced the dim room rapidly awhile, Digitized by VjOOQIC 48 Calming his troubled mind, and then he came And laid his hand upon her f(»:ehead white, And in a voice of heavenly tenderness Answered her : Be...£3re I knew thee, Mary, , Ambition was my angd. I did hear Forever its witched voices in mine ear — My days w^e visicmary. My nights were like the slumbers of the mad. And every dream swept o'er me glory-clad. I read the burning letters Of warlike pomp, on BkUyrfn page, alone — I counted nothing the struck widow's moan — I heard no clank (tf fetters — I only felt the trumpet's stirring bla^t, And lean-eyed Famine stalked unchallenged past. I heard, with veins of lightning, The utterance of the Statesman's word of power — Binding and loosing nalions in an hour — But while my eye was bright^odng, A masked detraction breathed upon his fiime, And a cursed sarpent dimed his written name.
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