 | Jones Very : The Complete Poems |  |
On reading the Memorial of John White Browne
Forgetful thou to manhood's years had'st grown,Thou knelt'st in Spring upon the grassy sod
To greet the early Flower in fragrance blown,
And own the presence of its Maker, God.
Forgetful? No! but mindful rather thou
Of what true manhood must forever be;
329
With a child's faith, and child's humility;
But, joined with these, a courage too was thine,
In Freedom's cause, boldly to do and dare;
Each worldly honor, for her sake, to resign,
And with her humblest flower all things share;
Nature, with early flower and falling leaf,
Doth mourn a life, like thine, should be so brief!
Poem No. 135; 25 October 1860
| Jones Very : The Complete Poems | |