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Now the last wreath of snow	A
That melts in mist exhales	B
White aspiration and our deep voiced gales	B
In chorus chant the measured march of spring	C
Whom griefs of life and death	D
Are burdening	C
Slow slow	A
With half held breath	D
Tread slow O mourners that all men may know	A
What hero here lies low	A
	-
O music sweep	E
From some deep cave and bear	F
To us that gasp in this so meagre air	F
Sweet ministerings	B
And consolations of contorted sound	G
With agonies profound	G
Of nobly warring and enduring chords	B
That lie close bound	G
Unstirred as yet 'neath thy wide wakening wings	B
So that our hearts break not in broken words	B
O music that hast power	H
This darkness to devour	H
In vivid light that from the dusk of grief	I
Canst cause to grow divergent flower and leaf	I
And from death's darkest roots	B
Bring forth the fairest fruits	B
Come thou to quicken this hour	H
Of loss and keep	E
Thy spell on all that none may dare to weep	E
	-
For he whom now we mourn	J
As if from giants born	J
Was strong in limb and strong in brain	K
And nobly with a giant scorn	J
Withstood the direst pain	K
That healing science knows	B
When by the dastard blows	B
Of his brute enemy	L
Laid low he sought to rise again	M
Through help of knife and fire	H
The awful enginery	H
Wherewith men dare aspire	H
To wrest from Death his victims Yea	N
Though he who healed him shrank and throbbed	G
With horror of the wound	G
Brave Sumner gave no sound	G
Nor flinched nor sobbed	G
But as though within the man	O
Instant premonition ran	O
Of his high fate	G
Imperishable sculptured state	G
Enthroned in death to hold	G
He stood a statued form	P
Of veiled and voiceless storm	P
Inwardly quivering	C
Like the swift smitten string	C
Of unheard music yet	G
As massively and firmly set	G
As if he had been marble or wrought gold	G
	-
Built in so brave a shape	Q
How could he hope escape	Q
The blundering people's wrath	R
Who seeing him strong	S
Supposed it right to cast on him their wrong	S
Since he could bear it all	T
Lo now the sombre pall	U
Sweeps their dull errors from the path	R
And leaves it free	H
For him whose hushed heart no reproaches hath	R
Unto his grave to fare	H
In shrouded majesty	H
His triumph fills the air	H
Behold the streets are bordered with vain breath	D
Of those who reverent watch the train of death	D
But he has done with breathing	C
	-
Wise Death still choosing near and far	H
Thou couldst not strike a higher star	H
From out our heaven and yet its light	G
In falling glorifies the night	G
	-
Leader in life his lips though dumb	V
Still rule us by their restfulness their smile	W
Of far off meanings and the people come	V
In tributary hosts for many a mile	W
Drawn by an eloquence	B
More solemn and intense	B
Than that wherewith he shook	X
The Senate while his look	X
Of sober lightning cleft the knotty growth	Y
Of error that within the riven root	G
Uplifted lit with peace truth's buds might shoot	G
And blow sweet breath o'er all however loth	Z
	-
Unspeaking though his eyes forget	G
The light that late forsook	X
Their chambers there doth rise	B
Mysteriously yet	G
A radiance thence that glows	B
On brows of them the great and wise	B
Poets and men of prophecies	B
Who with looks of strange repose	B
Calm exalted here have met	G
Him to follow to his grave	A2
Well they know he's crossed their bound	G
Yet with baffled longing brave	A2
Seek with him the depths to sound	G
That gulf our lonely life around	G
Oh on these mortal faces frail	B2
What immortality	H
Falls from the death light pale	B2
	-
Ev'n thus the path unto thy tomb	C2
Sumner all our brave and good	G
Still shall pace through time to come	V
For in distant Auburn wood	G
Seeing the glimmer of thy stone	D2
They a shaft shall deem it thrown	D2
From a dawn beyond the deep	E
And so haste with thee to keep	E
Angelic brotherhood	G
O herald gone before	H
For these throw wide the door	H
Make room make room	C2
	-
Now music cease	B
And bitter brazen trumpets hold your peace	B
Now while the dumb white air	H
Draws from our still despair	H
A purer prayer	H
Then must the sod	G
Fulfill its humble share	H
Meek folded o'er his breast	G
Here where he lies amongst the waiting trees	B
They shall break bud when warm winds from the west	G
And southern breezes come to touch the place	B
Made precious by this grace	B
Of memory dear to God	G
	-
We leave him where the granite Lion lies	B
And gazes toward the East with woman's eyes	B
That read the riddle of the undying sun	E2
Bearing within her breast the stony germ	F2
Of continents but lasting no less firm	F2
The memory of those marvels done	E2
The battles fought the words that wrought	G
To free a race and chasten one	E2
We leave him where the river slowly winds	B
A broken chain	K
The river that so late its hero finds	B
Without a stain	K
Whose name so long expectantly it bore	H
And echoing now a people's thought	G
The Charles shall murmur by this reedy shore	H
His fame forevermore	H

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