Publication information

Source:
Bolivar Breeze
Source type: newspaper
Document type: poem
Document title: “McKinley”
Author(s): Merritt, W. H.
City of publication: Bolivar, New York
Date of publication: 18 September 1902
Volume number: 12
Issue number: 3
Pagination: [?]

 
Citation
Merritt, W. H. “McKinley.” Bolivar Breeze 18 Sept. 1902 v12n3: p. [?].
 
Transcription
full text
 
Keywords
William McKinley (mourning: poetry); McKinley assassination (poetry).
 
Named persons
William McKinley.
 
Notes
“W. H. Merritt, Bolivar, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1901.”
 
Document


McKinley

Our hearts with anguish bleed,
     The world is bowed with grief—
Oh horrors! This assassin’s deed
     It seems beyond belief.

How could he slay the people’s friend?
     The good, the brave, the true;
The greatest and the best of men—
     With proffered hand of friendship too!

Our half mast flags in sorrow wave
     There’s grief in every fold.
We sorrow for the good and brave
     We mourn with grief untold.

In every land, on every sea
     The flags of sorrow mourn for thee,
                    McKinley.