When the roused popular ocean foamed and

chafed,

And vulture War from his Imaus Snuffed blood, to summon homely Peace, And show that only order is release.

To carve thy fullest thought, what though

Time was not granted? Aye in history, Like that Dawn's face which baffled Angelo,

Left shapeless, grander for its mystery, Thy great Design shall stand, and day Flood its blind front from Orients far away.

Who says thy day is o'er? Control,

My heart, that bitter first emotion;
While men shall reverence the steadfast soul,
The heart in silent self-devotion
Breaking, the mild, heroic mien,
Thou❜lt need no prop of marble, Lamartine.

If France reject thee, 'tis not thine,
But her own, exile that she utters;
Ideal France, the deathless, the divine,
Will be where thy white pennon flutters,
As once the nobler Athens went
With Aristides into banishment.

No fitting metewand hath To-day

For measuring spirits of thy stature,Only the Future can reach up to lay

The laurel on that lofty nature,—

Bard, who with some diviner art

Has touched the bard's true lyre, a nation's heart.

Swept by thy hand, the gladdened chords,

Crashed now in discords fierce by others, Gave forth one note beyond all skill of words,

And chimed together, We are brothers. O poem unsurpassed! it ran

All round the world, unlocking man to man.

France is too poor to pay alone

The service of that ample spirit ; Paltry seem low dictatorship and throne, If balanced with thy simple merit. They had to thee been rust and loss; Thy aim was higher,—thou hast climbed a Cross.

TO JOHN G. PALFREY.

THERE are who triumph in a losing cause, Who can put on defeat, as 'twere a wreath Unwithering in the adverse popular breath, Safe from the blasting demagogue's applause; 'Tis they who stand for Freedom and God's laws.

And so stands Palfrey now, as Marvell stood,
Loyal to Truth dethroned, nor could be wooed
To trust the playful tiger's velvet paws:
And if the second Charles brought in decay
Of ancient virtue, if it well might wring
Souls that had broadened 'neath a nobler day,
To see a losel, marketable king

Fearfully watering with his realm's best blood Cromwell's quenched bolts, that erst had cracked and flamed,

Scaring, through all their depths of courtier mud, Europe's crowned bloodsuckers,-how

ashamed

Ought we to be, who see Corruption's flood
Still rise o'er last year's mark, to mine away
Our brazen idols' feet of treacherous clay!

O utter degradation! Freedom turned
Slavery's vile bawd, to cozen and betray
To the old lecher's clutch a maiden prey,
If so a loathsome pander's fee be earned!

And we are silent, we who daily tread
A soil sublime, at least, with heroes' graves !—

more

Beckon no more, shades of the noble dead! Be dumb, ye heaven-touched lips of winds and waves!

Or hope to rouse some Coptic dullard, hid
Ages ago, wrapt stiffly, fold on fold,
With cerements close, to wither in the cold
Forever hushed, and sunless pyramid !

Beauty and Truth, and all that these contain,
Drop not like ripened fruit about our feet;
We climb to them through years of sweat and
pain;

Without long struggle, none did e'er attain The downward look from Quiet's blissful seat: Though present loss may be the hero's part, Yet none can rob him of the victor heart Whereby the broad-realmed future is subdued, And Wrong, which now insults from triumph's car, Sending her vulture hope to raven far,

Is made unwilling tributary of Good.

O Mother State, how quenched thy Sinai fires! Is there none left of thy staunch Mayflower breed?

No spark among the ashes of thy sires,

Of Virtue's altar-flame the kindling seed? Are these thy great men, these that cringe and creep,

And writhe through slimy ways to place and power ?—

How long, O Lord, before thy wrath shall reap Our frail-stemmed summer prosperings in their flower?

O for one hour of that undaunted stock
That went with Vane and Sydney to the block!

O for a whiff of Naseby, that would sweep,
With its stern Puritan besom, all this chaff

From the Lord's threshing-floor! Yet more than half

The victory is attained, when one or two,

Through the fool's laughter and the traitor's

scorn,

Beside thy sepulchre can abide the morn, Crucified Truth, when thou shalt rise anew