Nisan 16, 2025

TODAY WE MAKE THE POET’S WORDS OUR OWN - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Today We Make the Poet's Words Our Own

To-day we make the poet's words our own,
And utter them in plaintive undertone;
Nor to the living only be they said,
But to the other living called the dead,
Whose dear, paternal images appear
Not wrapped in gloom, but robed in sunshine here;
Whose simple lives, complete and without flaw,
Were part and parcel of great Nature's law;
Who said not to their Lord, as if afraid,
"Here is thy talent in a napkin laid,"
But labored in their sphere, as men who live
In the delight that work alone can give.
Peace be to them; eternal peace and rest,
And the fulfilment of the great behest:
"Ye have been faithful over a few things,
Over ten cities shall ye reign as kings."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

TODAY WE MAKE THE POET’S WORDS OUR OWN - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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