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Source: The Collected Poems of Arthur Upson Source type: book Document type: poem Document title: “The Sequoia, ‘William McKinley’” Author(s): Upson, Arthur Editor(s): Burton, Richard Volume number: 1 Publisher: Edmund D. Brooks Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota Year of publication: 1909 Pagination: 51 |
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| Upson, Arthur. “The Sequoia, ‘William McKinley.’” The Collected Poems of Arthur Upson. Ed. Richard Burton. Vol. 1. Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks, 1909: p. 51. |
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| William McKinley [tree] (poetry); William McKinley (poetry). |
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The Sequoia, “William McKinley”
HE who in dying blessed the peaceful trees
That lulled the slow grief of the lapsing year
Towards tranquil death, is best remembered here.
He leaves a name that shall make holier these
Huge temple pillars where the organing breeze,
Always at requiem, fills the atmosphere,
And does to their eternal roof uprear
Perpetual music of great memories.
Men raised rich temples in the days antique
To serve memorial unto virtues wan
Beside his. Him no rites shall celebrate
Gold-bought, ephemeral as their altar-reek—
But, while time is, he here in solemn state
Shall hold fit place in Nature’s pantheon.