FORGIVE, illustrious Country! these deep sighs, Heaved less for thy bright plains and hills bestrown With monuments decayed or overthrown, For all that tottering stands or prostrate lies, Than for like scenes in moral vision shown, Ruin perceived for keener sympathies; Faith crushed, yet proud of weeds, her gaudy crown; Virtues laid low, and mouldering energies. Yet why prolong this mournful strain? -- Fallen Power, Thy fortunes, twice exalted, might provoke Verse to glad notes prophetic of the hour When thou, uprisen, shalt break thy double yoke, And enter, with prompt aid from the Most High, On the third stage of thy great destiny. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HERETIC: 4. HUMILITY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER NATURA NATURANS by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 2 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ON SICK LEAVE, 1916 by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG MORNING MIST by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD ON RECEIPT OF A RARE PIPE by W. H. B. |