ON, on the same, ye jocund twain! My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one''"combining all, My single soul''"aims, confirmations, failures, joys''"Nor single soul alone, I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's) ''"the trial great, the victory gre A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats''" here at the west a voice triumphant''"justifying all, A gladsome pealing cry''"a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction; I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)''"An (My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread, I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter- cool'd the same;) As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love, Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions, On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MY UNCLE ARLY by EDWARD LEAR SARRAZINE'S SONG, FR. CHAITIVEL by MARIE DE FRANCE WREATHE THE BOWL by THOMAS MOORE THE CHILD IN THE GARDEN by HENRY VAN DYKE A SOUL'S SOLILOQUY by WENONAH STEVENS ABBOTT |