<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115340" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Fitz-Greene Halleck</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see the sons of genius rise<br> The nobles of our land,<br> And foremost in the gathering ranks<br> I see the poet-band.<br> That priesthood of the Beautiful<br> To whom alone 't is given<br> To lift our spirits from the dust,<br> Back to their native heaven.<br> But there is one among the throng<br> Not passed his manhood's prime,<br> The laurel-wreath upon his brow<br> Has greener grown with time;<br> And in his eye yet glows the light<br> Of the celestial fire,<br> But cast beside him on the earth<br> Is his neglected lyre.<br> The lyre whose high heroic notes<br> A thousand hearts have stirred<br> Lies mute---the skilful hand no more<br> Awakes one slumbering chord.<br> O poet, rouse thee from thy dreams!<br> Wake from the voiceless slumbers,<br> And once again give to the breeze<br> The music of thy numbers.<br> Sing! for our country claims her bards,<br> She listens for thy strains;<br> Sing! for upon our jarring earth<br> Too much of discord reigns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115340" data-title="To Fitz-Greene Halleck de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="I see the sons of genius rise/ The nobles of our land,/ And foremost in the gathering ranks/ I see the poet-band./ That priesthood of the Beautiful/ To whom alone 't is given/ To lift our spirits from the dust,/ Back to their native heaven...."></div> </div> </div>

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