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O Mother State the winds of March	A
Blew chill o'er Auburn's Field of God	B
Where slow beneath a leaden arch	A
Of sky thy mourning children trod	B
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And now with all thy woods in leaf	C
Thy fields in flower beside thy dead	D
Thou sittest in thy robes of grief	C
A Rachel yet uncomforted	D
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And once again the organ swells	E
Once more the flag is half way hung	F
And yet again the mournful bells	E
In all thy steeple towers are rung	F
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And I obedient to thy will	G
Have come a simple wreath to lay	H
Superfluous on a grave that still	G
Is sweet with all the flowers of May	H
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I take with awe the task assigned	D
It may be that my friend might miss	I
In his new sphere of heart and mind	D
Some token from my band in this	I
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By many a tender memory moved	D
Along the past my thought I send	D
The record of the cause he loved	D
Is the best record of its friend	D
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No trumpet sounded in his ear	J
He saw not Sinai's cloud and flame	K
But never yet to Hebrew seer	J
A clearer voice of duty came	K
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God said 'Break thou these yokes undo	D
These heavy burdens I ordain	L
A work to last thy whole life through	D
A ministry of strife and pain	L
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'Forego thy dreams of lettered ease	M
Put thou the scholar's promise by	N
The rights of man are more than these '	-
He heard and answered 'Here am I '	-
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He set his face against the blast	D
His feet against the flinty shard	D
Till the hard service grew at last	D
Its own exceeding great reward	D
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Lifted like Saul's above the crowd	D
Upon his kingly forehead fell	O
The first sharp bolt of Slavery's cloud	D
Launched at the truth he urged so well	O
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Ah never yet at rack or stake	P
Was sorer loss made Freedom's gain	L
Than his who suffered for her sake	P
The beak torn Titan's lingering pain	L
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The fixed star of his faith through all	Q
Loss doubt and peril shone the same	K
As through a night of storm some tall	Q
Strong lighthouse lifts its steady flame	K
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Beyond the dust and smoke he saw	R
The sheaves of Freedom's large increase	S
The holy fanes of equal law	R
The New Jerusalem of peace	S
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The weak might fear the worldling mock	T
The faint and blind of heart regret	D
All knew at last th' eternal rock	T
On which his forward feet were set	D
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The subtlest scheme of compromise	U
Was folly to his purpose bold	D
The strongest mesh of party lies	U
Weak to the simplest truth he told	D
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One language held his heart and lip	V
Straight onward to his goal he trod	D
And proved the highest statesmanship	V
Obedience to the voice of God	D
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No wail was in his voice none heard	D
When treason's storm cloud blackest grew	D
The weakness of a doubtful word	D
His duty and the end he knew	D
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The first to smite the first to spare	W
When once the hostile ensigns fell	O
He stretched out hands of generous care	W
To lift the foe he fought so well	O
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For there was nothing base or small	Q
Or craven in his soul's broad plan	X
Forgiving all things personal	G
He hated only wrong to man	X
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The old traditions of his State	D
The memories of her great and good	D
Took from his life a fresher date	D
And in himself embodied stood	D
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How felt the greed of gold and place	Y
The venal crew that schemed and planned	D
The fine scorn of that haughty face	Y
The spurning of that bribeless hand	D
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If than Rome's tribunes statelier	W
He wore his senatorial robe	Z
His lofty port was all for her	W
The one dear spot on all the globe	Z
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If to the master's plea he gave	A2
The vast contempt his manhood felt	D
He saw a brother in the slave	A2
With man as equal man he dealt	D
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Proud was he If his presence kept	D
Its grandeur wheresoe'er he trod	D
As if from Plutarch's gallery stepped	D
The hero and the demigod	D
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None failed at least to reach his ear	W
Nor want nor woe appealed in vain	L
The homesick soldier knew his cheer	W
And blessed him from his ward of pain	L
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Safely his dearest friends may own	B2
The slight defects he never hid	D
The surface blemish in the stone	B2
Of the tall stately pyramid	D
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Suffice it that he never brought	D
His conscience to the public mart	D
But lived himself the truth he taught	D
White souled clean handed pure of heart	D
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What if he felt the natural pride	D
Of power in noble use too true	W
With thin humilities to hide	D
The work he did the lore he knew	W
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Was he not just Was any wronged	D
By that assured self estimate	D
He took but what to him belonged	D
Unenvious of another's state	D
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Well might he heed the words he spake	P
And scan with care the written page	C2
Through which he still shall warm and wake	P
The hearts of men from age to age	C2
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Ah who shall blame him now because	D2
He solaced thus his hours of pain	L
Should not the o'erworn thresher pause	D2
And hold to light his golden grain	L
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No sense of humor dropped its oil	E2
On the hard ways his purpose went	D
Small play of fancy lightened toil	E2
He spake alone the thing he meant	D
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He loved his books the Art that hints	F2
A beauty veiled behind its own	B2
The graver's line the pencil's tints	F2
The chisel's shape evoked from stone	B2
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He cherished void of selfish ends	G2
The social courtesies that bless	H2
And sweeten life and loved his friends	G2
With most unworldly tenderness	I2
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But still his tired eyes rarely learned	D
The glad relief by Nature brought	D
Her mountain ranges never turned	D
His current of persistent thought	D
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The sea rolled chorus to his speech	J2
Three banked like Latium's' tall trireme	K
With laboring oars the grove and beach	J2
Were Forum and the Academe	K
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The sensuous joy from all things fair	W
His strenuous bent of soul repressed	D
And left from youth to silvered hair	W
Few hours for pleasure none for rest	D
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For all his life was poor without	D
O Nature make the last amends	G2
Train all thy flowers his grave about	D
And make thy singing birds his friends	G2
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Revive again thou summer rain	L
The broken turf upon his bed	D
Breathe summer wind thy tenderest strain	L
Of low sweet music overhead	D
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With calm and beauty symbolize	U
The peace which follows long annoy	K2
And lend our earth bent mourning eyes	U
Some hint of his diviner joy	K2
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For safe with right and truth he is	L2
As God lives he must live alway	M2
There is no end for souls like his	L2
No night for children of the day	D
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Nor cant nor poor solicitudes	L2
Made weak his life's great argument	D
Small leisure his for frames and moods	L2
Who followed Duty where she went	D
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The broad fair fields of God he saw	L2
Beyond the bigot's narrow bound	D
The truths he moulded into law	L2
In Christ's beatitudes he found	D
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His state craft was the Golden Rule	N2
His right of vote a sacred trust	D
Clear over threat and ridicule	N2
All heard his challenge 'Is it just '	-
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And when the hour supreme had come	K
Not for himself a thought he gave	A2
In that last pang of martyrdom	K
His care was for the half freed slave	A2
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Not vainly dusky hands upbore	W
In prayer the passing soul to heaven	O2
Whose mercy to His suffering poor	W
Was service to the Master given	O2
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Long shall the good State's annals tell	O
Her children's children long be taught	D
How praised or blamed he guarded well	O
The trust he neither shunned nor sought	D
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If for one moment turned thy face	L2
O Mother from thy son not long	P2
He waited calmly in his place	L2
The sure remorse which follows wrong	P2
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Forgiven be the State he loved	D
The one brief lapse the single blot	D
Forgotten be the stain removed	D
Her righted record shows it not	D
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The lifted sword above her shield	D
With jealous care shall guard his fame	K
The pine tree on her ancient field	D
To all the winds shall speak his name	K
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The marble image of her son	O2
Her loving hands shall yearly crown	Q2
And from her pictured Pantheon	R2
His grand majestic face look down	Q2
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O State so passing rich before	W
Who now shall doubt thy highest claim	K
The world that counts thy jewels o'er	W
Shall longest pause at Sumner's name	K