POEMS OF JAMES RYDER RANDALL
CLAY
Written on the occasion of the unveiling of the Clay Statue, April 12th, 1860
Immortal Mind! thy burning torch
A deathless halo flings
Around the Prophets crucified,
And Sybaritic Kings;
We chaunt, today, a pæan song
To thy divinest flashes—
To our imperishable one,
The Mill Boy of the Slashes!
The fervid breast of Nature poured
Its deluge to his sips,
The bee-winged breezes charmed anew
Hymettus to his lips,
Till, like a cleaving peak, his thoughts
To sunward regions ran,
And god beheld beneath his throne
A mountain hearted Man.
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