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Oliver Wendell Holmes - Hymn For The Inauguration Of The Statue Of Governor Andrew

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ANDREW, HINGHAM, OCTOBER 7, 1875 <br /> <br />BEHOLD the shape our eyes have known! <br />It lives once more in changeless stone; <br />So looked in mortal face and form <br />Our guide through peril's deadly storm. <br /> <br />But hushed the beating heart we knew, <br />That heart so tender, brave, and true, <br />Firm as the rooted mountain rock, <br />Pure as the quarry's whitest block! <br /> <br />Not his beneath the blood-red star <br />To win the soldier's envied sear; <br />Unarmed he battled for the right, <br />In Duty's never-ending fight. <br /> <br />Unconquered will, unslumbering eye, <br />Faith such as bids the martyr die, <br />The prophet's glance, the master's hand <br />To mould the work his foresight planned, <br /> <br />These were his gifts; what Heaven had lent <br />For justice, mercy, truth, he spent, <br />First to avenge the traitorous blow, <br />And first to lift the vanquished foe. <br /> <br />Lo, thus he stood; in danger's strait <br />The pilot of the Pilgrim State! <br />Too large his fame for her alone,-- <br />A nation claims him as her own!<br /><br />Oliver Wendell Holmes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-for-the-inauguration-of-the-statue-of-governor-andrew/

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