The book The Fighting Race, And Other Poems And Ballads was written by author Clarke, Joseph Ignatius Constantine, 1846-1925 Here you can read free online of The Fighting Race, And Other Poems And Ballads book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Fighting Race, And Other Poems And Ballads a good or bad book?
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You have no place above a christian grave: Your young Greek rapture doth the dead annoy, Whom Christ, thorn-crowned, was crucified to save. Here all is cold. Here faith is frozen calm. Here hope is sober as a winter cloud. Love must seem sorrow. But the martyr's palm Shall mate the willow silver-grey and bowed. Here sunshine should not dance but to a psalm. Here winds should never pipe their songs aloud. For sign of life, the shaven grass alone. For memory, a labyrinth of stone. Whence random s...hafts and broken columns rise. Or shapes in rigid garments point to distant skies. "To statues bare like you, the Board, Both scandalized and wroth, demurs: Nor place nor plot to you it can afford." Thus spake the Master of the Sepulchres. But at night, when the full moon shed Her blue-green magic among the graves, And the stars flashed faint in a sky of steel. While the low wind ruffled the grass as it sped, The harsh gate-bell rang a shivering peal That jangled chill o'er the harbor waves. POEMS.
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