The Fall of the Leaf And Other Poems. By Charles Bucke ... Fourth Edition |
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IV. INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT OVER ARTHUR LLEWELLYN.
Beneath this monument of turf reposeThe sacred ashes of a real man:
Unknown to fame; and e'en unknown to those,
Who till'd the land, on which he gain'd his bread!
Yet, had he been in lofty turret born,
He might have been a minister of state;
Or led an army to th' embattled field.
He died neglected; withering all his days;
Scorning the earth!—For, since his birth decreed,
He could not rise, in this dull age, to fame,
He mused in silence on his humble state,
And listless fortune, till his wayward mind
Scorn'd to be any thing,—save one alone,—
An honest, sober, rough, unpolish'd man.
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