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Sonnets and Other Poems

By John K. Ingram
Ingram, John K. (1823-1907)

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I. LOVE AND SORROW.
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II. THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY.
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III. MISCELLANEOUS.
  
A NATION'S WEALTH.
  
SOCIAL HEREDITY.
  
SOCIAL ORIGINS.
  
SAINT PAUL.
  
THE SOCIAL FUTURE.
  
PASTOR AB AMPHRYSO.
  
STREAMS.
  
NATIONAL PRESAGE.
  
A PROTEST.
  
MAJUBA.
  
ON READING THE SONNET BY R.C.D.,
  
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL.
  
1899.
  
A MONITION.
  
A FILIAL TRIBUTE.
  
SIR L. ALMA-TADEMA'S ‘WOMEN OF AMPHISSA.’
  
NOSTALGIA.
  
WINGED THOUGHTS.
  
[How brief our dates! how soon Death apprehends]
  
[Would'st thou be economical of Time]
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
TO A.J.
  
[The moon was bright that Autumn night]
  
[‘Vos plaudite!’ th' imperial Roman said]
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VERSICLES.
  
[What is the watchword of the coming ages?]
  
[Content thee to obey: thou would'st not tread]
  
[‘How to be happy?’—smiling, spoke the sage—]
  
[When in a man the flower of courtesy]
  
[Each nation master at its own fireside—]
  
[Live for thyself, thy pleasure and thy gain]
  
[The Records of the Time each morning bring]
  
[‘How sacred is this place,’ in awe I cried]
  
[The thoughts that wait upon the uninspired]
  
[As down the westward slope of life we move]
  
[Fain would I serve my brethren. How shall I]
  
[Be not too much exalted, if to-day]
  
[Despair not, if thy spirit-fire burns low]
  
[‘These thoughts are old.’ True; but each race of men]
  
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

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[What is the watchword of the coming ages?]

What is the watchword of the coming ages?
What law their master spirits will control?
This—‘Serve Humanity with heart and soul,
And, having done thy duty, ask no wages.’
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