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Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration

I
    weak-winged is song,
Nor aims at that clear-ethered height
Whither the brave deed climbs for light:
    We seem to do them wrong,
Bringing our robin’s-leaf to deck their hearse
Who in warm life-blood wrote their nobler verse,
Our...

Poet: James Russell Lowell
From the "Commemoration Ode"

Washington
when dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time,
  Would strike that banner down,
A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme
  With fame’s bright wreath did crown
Through armed hosts bore it till it floated high
Beyond the clouds, a light...

Poet: Harriet Monroe