who’ve forward sprung in freedom’s help
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For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you
my mother dear
&emdash;you father&emdash;you, brothers,
sisters, friends,)
For all my days&emdash;not those of peace
alone&emdash; the days of war the same, For gentle words, caresses, gifts from foreign
lands,
For shelter, wine and meat&emdash;for sweet
appreciation,
(You distant, dim unknown&emdash;or young
or old&emdash;countless, unspecified,
readers belov’d,
We never met, and ne’er shall meet&emdash;
and yet our souls embrace, long, close and
long;)
For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books
&emdash; for colors, forms,
For all the brave strong men&emdash;devoted,
hardy men&emdash;who’ve forward sprung
in freedom’s help, all years, all lands,
For braver, stronger, more devoted men&emdash;
(a special laurel ere I go, to life’s war’s chosen
ones,
The cannoneers of song and thought&emdash;
the great artillerists&emdash; the foremost
leaders, captains of the soul:)
As soldier from an ended war return’d&emdash;
As traveler out of myriads, to the long
procession retrospective,
Thanks&emdash;joyful thanks!&emdash;a soldier’s,
traveler’s thanks. 1888 1888-9
LIFE AND DEATH
THE two old, simple problems ever intertwined,
Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.
By each successive age insoluble, pass’d on,
To ours to-day&emdash;and we pass on the same. 1888 1888-9
THE VOICE OF THE RAIN
AND who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here
translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottom-
less sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether
changed, and yet the same
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