Ballads for the Times (Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised |
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Rajah Brooke.
Noble heart, of purpose high,
Hasten on thy great career,
Heedless of the coward cry
Slander shouts in Envy's ear;
Even now the falsehoods die,
Half for shame and half for fear;
Even now the clouds go by,
And thy heaven again is clear!
Hasten on thy great career,
Heedless of the coward cry
Slander shouts in Envy's ear;
Even now the falsehoods die,
Half for shame and half for fear;
Even now the clouds go by,
And thy heaven again is clear!
Let them whisper what they can,
Lightly scoff, or loudly blame;
Still, O glorious friend of Man,
Such mean censure speeds thy fame;
Good men bless, where bad men ban;
Ever was it seen the same,
That the leader of the van
Won his way through foes and flame!
Lightly scoff, or loudly blame;
Still, O glorious friend of Man,
Such mean censure speeds thy fame;
Good men bless, where bad men ban;
Ever was it seen the same,
That the leader of the van
Won his way through foes and flame!
Rajah! throned on Indian seas,
Thou art there to bless Mankind,
Sent to sow by every breeze
Seeds of good for heart and mind,
Carrying out God's great decrees
To the Saxon race assign'd,
Which the Right all stoutly frees,
But is stern the Wrong to bind!
Thou art there to bless Mankind,
Sent to sow by every breeze
Seeds of good for heart and mind,
Carrying out God's great decrees
To the Saxon race assign'd,
Which the Right all stoutly frees,
But is stern the Wrong to bind!
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