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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer Source type: newspaper Document type: poem Document title: “‘His Will Be Done’” Author(s): Rose, W. R. City of publication: Cleveland, Ohio Date of publication: 15 September 1901 Volume number: 60 Issue number: 258 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 6 |
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| Rose, W. R. “‘His Will Be Done.’” Cleveland Plain Dealer 15 Sept. 1901 v60n258: part 1, p. 6. |
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| William McKinley (death: poetry). |
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“His Will Be Done”
With deepest founts of Love to drain
They could not stay the fleeting breath;
The bolts of Science, hurled in vain,
Fell harmless at the feet of Death.
A million prayers arose on high—
Yet hope went downward with the sun,
As faintly came that farewell sigh:
“It is God’s way—
His will be done!”So passed a soldier brave and true;
So passed a clean and loyal soul.
The right he ever kept in view,
And pressed breast-forward to the goal.
This was a man—so loved, so wise!
And when his splendid race was run
In simple faith he closed his eyes:
“It is God’s way—
His will be done!”