Society and the World

He ventured neck or nothing—heaven’s success Found, or earth’s failure.

What’s become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip?

Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it, “Italy.”

Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it, “Italy.”

One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels, One more wrong to man, one more insult to God!

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.

And when, amid no earthly moans, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Hell, rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence.

While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down.

The viol, the violet, and the vine.

Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city, lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest.

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

“Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag,” she said.

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag,” she said.

The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk.

Health that mocks the doctor’s rules, Knowledge never learned of schools.

From those great eyes The soul has fled: When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!

No fetters in the Bay State—no slave upon our land!

No fetters in the Bay State—no slave upon our land!

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The fate of a nation was riding that night.

One if by land, and two if by sea; 1 And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm.

Listen, my children, and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.