<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37886" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Craigie House</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold! a double glory resteth here,<br>Wherein was housed in Revolution's time<br>A man who while a king refused a throne,<br>Save in his country's grateful heart alone;<br>And who by singleness of soul sublime<br>Has made his name to every people dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he who wore the poet's anadem<br>Kept the old relics in their primal place,<br>Reviving yet the age of Washington:<br>Poet and statesman — how their face is one<br>In greatness, goodness, and a world's embrace,<br>Though time and genius widely parted them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A reverent love has kept the olden pile<br>Almost untouched by innovating hands;<br>Nor has Art stinted Nature, — here she lies<br>In ancient ampleness to bless the eyes.<br>Beyond are spread the open meadow-lands<br>That stretch away to catch the river's smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From massive clumps of lofty lilac trees<br>Pours forth the searching fragrance of the spring,<br>Greeting the sense, while yet unseen the source;<br>And when the summer's glow hath spent its force,<br>And birds no more in elms and lindens sing,<br>Millions of winy leaves inflame the breeze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And winter holds here an unwonted sway;<br>The towering trees with honors long since dead,<br>And charged with snows, still leave the fancy warm<br>To feel that Time's or Nature's chilling storm<br>By Fame eternal shall be buffeted,<br>Nor vital greatness suffer cold decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let the pilgrim come what time he will,<br>Here is evoked Thought's majesty of mood;<br>Here she moves on with slow, imperial gait,<br>Since two such Presences upon her wait.<br>Lo! Past and Present mix, — a might flood<br>Beside whose stately flow the lips grow still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Fiske+Bates">Charlotte Fiske Bates</a><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=37886" data-title="The Craigie House de Charlotte Fiske Bates" data-description="Behold! a double glory resteth here,/Wherein was housed in Revolution's time/A man who while a king refused a throne,/Save in his country's grateful heart alone;/And who by singleness of soul sublime/Has made his name to every people dear./And he ..."></div> </div> </div>

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