[Poems by Longfellow in] Final memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
REFORMERS.
Something must be forgiven to great Reformers,—The prophets of a fair new-world to be.
They cannot see the glory of the Past,
As men who walk with faces to the East
See not the glory of the setting sun.
[Poems by Longfellow in] Final memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||