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Addressed to Francis Greenleaf Allison of Burlington New Jersey	A
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You scarcely need my tardy thanks	B
Who self rewarded nurse and tend	C
A green leaf on your own Green Banks	B
The memory of your friend	C
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For me no wreath bloom woven hides	D
The sobered brow and lessening hair	E
For aught I know the myrtled sides	D
Of Helicon are bare	E
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Their scallop shells so many bring	F
The fabled founts of song to try	G
They've drained for aught I know the spring	F
Of Aganippe dry	G
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Ah well The wreath the Muses braid	H
Proves often Folly's cap and bell	I
Methinks my ample beaver's shade	H
May serve my turn as well	I
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Let Love's and Friendship's tender debt	J
Be paid by those I love in life	K
Why should the unborn critic whet	J
For me his scalping knife	K
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Why should the stranger peer and pry	G
One's vacant house of life about	L
And drag for curious ear and eye	G
His faults and follies out	L
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Why stuff for fools to gaze upon	M
With chaff of words the garb he wore	N
As corn husks when the ear is gone	O
Are rustled all the more	N
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Let kindly Silence close again	P
The picture vanish from the eye	G
And on the dim and misty main	Q
Let the small ripple die	G
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Yet not the less I own your claim	R
To grateful thanks dear friends of mine	S
Hang if it please you so my name	R
Upon your household line	S
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Let Fame from brazen lips blow wide	T
Her chosen names I envy none	U
A mother's love a father's pride	T
Shall keep alive my own	V
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Still shall that name as now recall	W
The young leaf wet with morning dew	X
The glory where the sunbeams fall	W
The breezy woodlands through	X
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That name shall be a household word	Y
A spell to waken smile or sigh	G
In many an evening prayer be heard	Y
And cradle lullaby	G
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And thou dear child in riper days	Z
When asked the reason of thy name	R
Shalt answer One 't were vain to praise	Z
Or censure bore the same	R
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'Some blamed him some believed him good	A2
The truth lay doubtless 'twixt the two	X
He reconciled as best he could	A2
Old faith and fancies new	X
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'In him the grave and playful mixed	B2
And wisdom held with folly truce	C2
And Nature compromised betwixt	B2
Good fellow and recluse	C2
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'He loved his friends forgave his foes	D2
And if his words were harsh at times	E2
He spared his fellow men his blows	D2
Fell only on their crimes	E2
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'He loved the good and wise but found	F2
His human heart to all akin	G2
Who met him on the common ground	F2
Of suffering and of sin	G2
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'Whate'er his neighbors might endure	H2
Of pain or grief his own became	R
For all the ills he could not cure	H2
He held himself to blame	R
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'His good was mainly an intent	I2
His evil not of forethought done	U
The work he wrought was rarely meant	I2
Or finished as begun	U
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'Ill served his tides of feeling strong	J2
To turn the common mills of use	C2
And over restless wings of song	J2
His birthright garb hung loose	C2
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'His eye was beauty's powerless slave	K2
And his the ear which discord pains	L2
Few guessed beneath his aspect grave	K2
What passions strove in chains	L2
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'He had his share of care and pain	Q
No holiday was life to him	M2
Still in the heirloom cup we drain	Q
The bitter drop will swim	M2
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'Yet Heaven was kind and here a bird	Y
And there a flower beguiled his way	N2
And cool in summer noons he heard	Y
The fountains plash and play	N2
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'On all his sad or restless moods	O2
The patient peace of Nature stole	P2
The quiet of the fields and woods	Q2
Sank deep into his soul	P2
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'He worshipped as his fathers did	R2
And kept the faith of childish days	Z
And howsoe'er he strayed or slid	R2
He loved the good old ways	Z
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'The simple tastes the kindly traits	S2
The tranquil air and gentle speech	T2
The silence of the soul that waits	S2
For more than man to teach	T2
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'The cant of party school and sect	U2
Provoked at times his honest scorn	V2
And Folly in its gray respect	U2
He tossed on satire's horn	V2
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'But still his heart was full of awe	W2
And reverence for all sacred things	X2
And brooding over form and law '	-
He saw the Spirit's wings	X2
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'Life's mystery wrapt him like a cloud	Y2
He heard far voices mock his own	V
The sweep of wings unseen the loud	Y2
Long roll of waves unknown	V
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'The arrows of his straining sight	Z2
Fell quenched in darkness priest and sage	A3
Like lost guides calling left and right	Z2
Perplexed his doubtful age	A3
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'Like childhood listening for the sound	F2
Of its dropped pebbles in the well	I
All vainly down the dark profound	F2
His brief lined plummet fell	I
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'So scattering flowers with pious pains	L2
On old beliefs of later creeds	B3
Which claimed a place in Truth's domains	L2
He asked the title deeds	B3
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'He saw the old time's groves and shrines	C3
In the long distance fair and dim	M2
And heard like sound of far off pines	C3
The century mellowed hymn	M2
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'He dared not mock the Dervish whirl	D3
The Brahmin's rite the Lama's spell	I
God knew the heart Devotion's pearl	D3
Might sanctify the shell	I
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'While others trod the altar stairs	E3
He faltered like the publican	M2
And while they praised as saints his prayers	E3
Were those of sinful man	M2
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'For awed by Sinai's Mount of Law	F3
The trembling faith alone sufficed	G3
That through its cloud and flame he saw	F3
The sweet sad face of Christ	G3
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'And listening with his forehead bowed	Y2
Heard the Divine compassion fill	H3
The pauses of the trump and cloud	Y2
With whispers small and still	H3
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'The words he spake the thoughts he penned	C
Are mortal as his hand and brain	M2
But if they served the Master's end	C
He has not lived in vain '	-
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Heaven make thee better than thy name	R
Child of my friends For thee I crave	K2
What riches never bought nor fame	R
To mortal longing gave	K2
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I pray the prayer of Plato old	I3
God make thee beautiful within	M2
And let thine eyes the good behold	I3
In everything save sin	M2
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Imagination held in check	J3
To serve not rule thy poised mind	K3
Thy Reason at the frown or beck	J3
Of Conscience loose or bind	K3
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No dreamer thou but real all	W
Strong manhood crowning vigorous youth	L3
Life made by duty epical	W
And rhythmic with the truth	L3
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So shall that life the fruitage yield	M3
Which trees of healing only give	N3
And green leafed in the Eternal field	M3
Of God forever live	O3