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Many loved Truth, and lavished life’s best oil Amid the dust of books to find her, Content at last, for guerdon of their toil, With the cast mantle she hath left behind her. Many in sad faith sought for her, Many with crossed hands sighed for her; But these, our brothers, fought for her, At life’s dear peril wrought for her, So loved her that they died for her.... They saw her plumed and mailed, With sweet, stern face unveiled, And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death.
Many loved Truth, and lavished life’s best oil Amid the dust of books to find her, Content at last, for guerdon of their toil, With the cast mantle she hath left behind her. Many in sad faith sought for her, Many with crossed hands sighed for her; But these, our brothers, fought for her, At life’s dear peril wrought for her, So loved her that they died for her.... They saw her plumed and mailed, With sweet, stern face unveiled, And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 2 · printed citation: J. R. Lowell (Ode at Harvard Commemoration, 1865). · compiler notes excluded
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