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JOHN HAY
Amid ferns and mosses brown,
From the little mountain-town,
Through the driving rain they bore him,
Kearsarge frowning down:
Onward bore him, wrapped from sight
Under palms and blossoms white,—
While the grieving hearts of thousands
Followed through the night
To that grave, love-sanctified,
Where, in the full summer-tide,
Low they laid him, who had cherished
Sympathies world-wide.
Honored grave! Yet Azrael's dart
Only slays the mortal part,
And they die not who have written
On the human heart.
Sad Roumania, far Peking,
East with West, his praise to sing
Who deemed justice more than power,
Hither tribute bring;
