BRAVE Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight From Prussia's timid region. Go, and rest With heroes, 'mid the islands of the Blest, Or in the fields of empyrean light. A meteor wert thou crossing a dark night: Yet shall thy name, conspicuous and sublime, Stand in the spacious firmament of time, Fixed as a star: such glory is thy right. Alas! it may not be: for earthly fame Is Fortune's frail dependant; yet there lives A Judge, who, as man claims by merit, gives; To whose all-pondering mind a noble aim, Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed; In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...F. DE SAMARA TO A.G.A. by EMILY JANE BRONTE EROS TURANNOS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CHRISTMAS LULLABY by MARY KATUS ANDERSON MANY ARE CALLED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LAMENT OF JUDAH by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16 by THOMAS CAMPION |