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Source: Theatre Source type: magazine Document type: poem Document title: “William McKinley—A Player’s Tribute” Author(s): Galland, Bertha Date of publication: October 1901 Volume number: 1 Issue number: 8 Pagination: 13 |
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| Galland, Bertha. “William McKinley—A Player’s Tribute.” Theatre Oct. 1901 v1n8: p. 13. |
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| Keywords |
| William McKinley (death: poetry); William McKinley (mourning: poetry). |
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| William McKinley. |
| Notes |
| The poem (below) appears in the magazine within an editorial column titled “Plays and Players” (pp. 2-13). |
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William McKinley—A Player’s Tribute
(Written for T T.)
From your slumber, dull world, hear the bells as they toll
From out tower and steeple and dome,
For the President’s dead!
Ah, toll, toll on,
For a soul that has gone to its home.Oh, thou grand one; so noble, so tender, so strong,
So wise and gentle, so brave!
Be the sob of a nation
Thy funeral dirge,
And our tears rest as dew on thy grave.We murmur in reverence thy well-beloved name,
And in awe and in grief bow the head;
All lowered the voices,
Soft muffled the tread,
For McKinley, the hero, is dead.Could ever a life be more lovely than thine,
A death more serene when ’twas done?
Thy simple, grand faith
Should endure for all time—
Thy “God’s will, and not ours, be done.”