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Won't you help support DayPoems? The Buried ChiefBy Sir Henry Parkes5/27/1815-4/27/1896(November 6th, 1886) With speechless lips and solemn tread They brought the Lawyer-Statesman home: They laid him with the gather'd dead, Where rich and poor like brothers come. How bravely did the stripling climb, From step to step the rugged hill: His gaze thro' that benighted time Fix'd on the far-off beacon still. He faced the storm that o'er him burst, With pride to match the proudest born: He bore unblench'd Detraction's worst, -- Paid blow for blow, and scorn for scorn. He scaled the summit while the sun Yet shone upon his conquer'd track: Nor falter'd till the goal was won, Nor struggling upward, once look'd back. But what avails the "pride of place", Or winged chariot rolling past? He heeds not now who wins the race, Alike to him the first or last. DayPoems Poem No. 843 Comment on DayPoems? If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read. Let it all out! Comment on this poem, any poem, DayPoems, other poetry places or the art of poetry at DayPoems Feedback. Won't you help support DayPoems? Click here to learn more about how you can keep DayPoems on the Web . . . Copyright The DayPoems web site, www.daypoems.net, is copyright 2001-2005 by Timothy K. Bovee. All rights reserved. The authors of poetry and other material appearing on DayPoems retain full rights to their work. Any requests for publication in other venues must be negotiated separately with the authors. The editor of DayPoems will gladly assist in putting interested parties in contact with the authors. |
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