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Source: Verses Source type: book Document type: poem Document title: “In Shame and Grief” Author(s): Peffley, D. Frank Publisher: none given Place of publication: none given Year of publication: 1908 Pagination: 24 |
| Citation |
| Peffley, D. Frank. “In Shame and Grief.” Verses. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1908: p. 24. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (poetry). |
| Named persons |
| William McKinley. |
| Notes |
| From title page: By D. Frank Peffley, Publisher of Creston News, Creston, Wash. |
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In Shame and Grief
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Again Columbia’s head is lowly bowed.
In shame and grief before the world she stands—
In shame that foulest murder laughs aloud
And taunts her helplessness with crimsoned hands.In grief that he should fall, her noble son
Whose faith and love went out to all his kind—
Whose wealth of honors all humanely won
Could wake no envious Cain in human mind.That brute may yet in God-like image move
’Mong men and do the work that hell commands,
This treacherous stroke doth once more dearly prove
In deed that thrills with horror all the lands.For pagan souls with Christian feel the shock
That, following round the earth th’ electric wave,
Makes faith in man a lightning-shattered rock
As stunned we stand beside our chieftain’s grave.