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So always firmly he: He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These are all gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, SOS JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 1819-1891 Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first Ameri...can. VII Long as man s hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self^ enduring as the pole, Along whose course the flying axles burn Of spirits bravely-pitched, earth s manlier brood; Long as below we cannot find The meed that stills the inexorable mind; So long this faith to some ideal Good, Under whatever mortal names it masks, Freedom, Law, Country, this ethereal mood That thanks the Fates for their severer tasks, Feeling its challenged pulses leap, While others skulk in subterfuges cheap, And, set in Danger s van, has all the boon it asks, Shall win man s praise and woman s love, Shall be a wisdom that we set above All other skills and gifts to culture dear, A virtue round whose forehead we inwreathe Laurels that with a living passion breathe When other crowns grow, while we twine them, sear.

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