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Source: Baltimore American Source type: newspaper Document type: poem Document title: “Requiem” Author(s): Reese, C. Herbert City of publication: Baltimore, Maryland Date of publication: 19 September 1901 Volume number: 191 Issue number: 34817 Pagination: 6 |
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| Reese, C. Herbert. “Requiem.” Baltimore American 19 Sept. 1901 v191n34817: p. 6. |
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| McKinley funeral services (poetry); McKinley assassination (poetry); William McKinley (death: poetry). |
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Requiem
Not with an empire’s hollow pomp;
Not in a monarch’s jeweled pall,
But as a brother gently lay him,
Soldier and statesman loved by all.Is this loss to crown our freedom,
And in its blessing seal belief?
Help, O Lord, thy struggling people;
Pardon a nation hushed in grief.Then, as men, ponder the awful lesson,
Knitting the kindred of earth in one.
Oh, let us join our departed in saying:
“Not our will, but God’s, be done.”