They waste us-ay-like April snow In the warm noon, we shrink away And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day- Till they shall fill the land, and we Are driven into the Western sea
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The praise of those who sleep in earth,The pleasant memory of their worth,
The hope to meet when life is past,
Shall heal the tortured mind at last.
William Cullen Bryant
The sweet calm sunshine of October, now warms the low spot upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.
William Cullen Bryant
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue. . . .
William Cullen Bryant
Ah never shall the land forgetHow gushed the life-blood of her brave --Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet,Upon the soil they fought to save.
William Cullen Bryant
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
William Cullen Bryant
Pure was thy life its bloody closeHath placed thee with the sons of light,Among the noble host of thoseWho perished in the cause of Right.
William Cullen Bryant
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