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Source: The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay Source type: book Document type: poem Document title: “To Theodore Roosevelt” Author(s): Hay, John Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts Year of publication: 1916 Pagination: 232 |
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| Hay, John. “To Theodore Roosevelt.” The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916: p. 232. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt (poetry). |
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From title page: The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay, Including
Many Poems Now First Collected.
From title page: With an Introduction by Clarence L. Hay. |
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To Theodore Roosevelt
S of a sire whose heart beat ever true
To God, to country, and the fireside love
To which returning, like a homing dove,
From each high duty done, he gladly flew,
Complete, yet touched by genius through and through,
The lofty qualities that made him great,
Loved in his home and priceless to the state,
By Heaven’s grace are garnered up in you.
Be yours, we pray, the dauntless heart of youth,
The eye to see the humor of the game,
The scorn of lies, the large Batavian mirth;
And, past the happy, fruitful years of fame,
Of sport and work and battle for the truth,
A home not all unlike your home on earth..