PRINCE of courtesy defeated, Heir of hope untimely cheated, Throned awhile he sat and, seated, Saw his Cornish round him gather; 'Teach us how to live, good Father!' How to die he taught us rather: Heard the startling trumpet sound him, Smiled upon the feast around him, Rose, and wrapp'd his coat, and bound him Where beyond the awful surges, Bathed in dawn on Syrian verges, God! thy star, thy Cross emerges. @3And so sing we all to it— Crux, in cœlo lux superna, Sis in carnis hac taberna Mihi pedibus lucerna: Quo vexillum dux cohortis Sistet, super flumen Mortis, Te, flammantibus in portis!@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SLEEP by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LOREINE: A HORSE by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND by THOMAS HARDY UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES [MAY 10, 1863] by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON BEAUTY MAKES US HAPPY by PHILIP AYRES |