Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1919 — RETROSPECT [ARTICLE]

RETROSPECT

“O conquering poet, thou that hast The whole world at thy feets What laurel-garlands crown thy pastl Is not the present sweet? POET. “I’d fling away my crown of bay, _ Lose it without one throe, To feel beside my own today The tender heartl flung away - Long, long ago!” “O statesman, thou that guidest things With, godlike strength of'will. Thou art more regal than earth’s kings. They hear thee, and are still.” z : STATESMAN. '' “I shape the world continually, I lay its monarchs low, And yet I’d give the world to see The dead eyes smile that smiled at to* Long, long ago!” “O warrior, thou that carriest high Thy grey victorious head, What paeans echo to the sky At thy war-horse’s tread!” WARRIOR. " . ' “I heed them not. I long to hear The child’s speech, soft and slow. That used to sound upon my ear. So sweet, so pure, so silver-clear, Many and many and many a year ago!** —George Barlow.