When falls the cause of Right, The poet grasps his pen, And in gleaming letters of living light Transmits the truth to men. Go, songs! he says who sings; Go! tell the world this tale; Bear it afar on your tireless wings: The Right will yet prevail. Songs! sound like the thunder's breath! Boom o'er the world and say: Brave men may die -- Right has no death! Truth never shall pass away! Go! sing thro' a nation's sighs! Go! sob thro' a people's tears! Sweep the horizons of all the skies, And throb through a thousand years! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PITY OF THE LEAVES by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON TO THE QUEEN by ALFRED TENNYSON HASCHEESH by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ANSWER TO A BEAUTIFUL POEM ENTITLED 'THE COMMON LOT' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DON JUAN: CANTO 4 by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE YOUNG MOTHER by KAY CAMMACK A CREOLE TRIPTYCH: 2. THE PLAINSMAN by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO ZEALOTS UPON THE &C. IN THE OATH by JOHN CLEVELAND |