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Source: Rock Island Argus Source type: newspaper Document type: poem Document title: “Farewell” Author(s): Hassler, C. C. City of publication: Rock Island, Illinois Date of publication: 19 September 1901 Volume number: 50 Issue number: 285 Pagination: 7 |
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| Hassler, C. C. “Farewell.” Rock Island Argus 19 Sept. 1901 v50n285: p. 7. |
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| William McKinley (mourning: poetry); William McKinley (death: poetry). |
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| Notes |
| “Written by C. C. Hassler, Bloomington poet laureate M. W. A., and presented to The Argus by the Head Office” (p. 7). |
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Farewell
When prayers ascend and tears are shed,
And nations pay to honored dead—
High tribute to his fame,
We’ll weave our tributes in a crown,
And lay them sadly, gently down,
With wreathes [sic] of immortelles, to live,
And fadeless, in all ages to give
A lustre to his name.
Where mountain peaks blend western skies,
Or southland, where, ’neath balmy skies,
The sweet magnolias bloom—
In all the land each stricken heart
Will share a patriot’s loyal part
And, joined in tears, as one, will lay
Our gift—a nation’s love—today
Upon his silent tomb.
Farewell kind husband, comrade. When,
Like perfume sweet of flowers, again
The springtime breezes swell,
We’ll think of thee with reverent thought
And bless the work thy mind hath wrought.
Farewell—God’s will, not ours, be done;
Life’s battle’s o’er, the victory’s won,
Farewell; a last farewell.