Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak, And voiceless hangs the world beside his bier. Our words are sobs, our cry of praise a tear: We are the smitten mortal, we the weak. We see a spirit on Earth's loftiest peak Shine, and wing hence the way he makes more clear: See a great Tree of Life that never sere Dropped leaf for aught that age or storms might wreak. Such ending is not Death: such living shows What wide illumination brightness sheds From one big heart, to conquer man's old foes: The coward, and the tyrant, and the force Of all those weedy monsters raising heads When Song is murk from springs of turbid source. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MINSTREL BOY by THOMAS MOORE TRUST by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE THE GALLOWS by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS A WAY TO A HAPPY NEW YEAR by ROBERT BREWSTER BEATTIE CALVARY-TALK by GORDON BOTTOMLEY THE GIAOUR; A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH TALE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |