<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409072" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn Sung At The Consecration Of Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose was the hand that painted thee, O Death!<br>In the false aspect of a ruthless foe,<br>Despair and sorrow waiting on thy breath --<br>O gentle Power! who could have wronged thee so?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou rather shouldst be crowned with fadeless flowers,<br>Of lasting fragrance and celestial hue;<br>Or be thy couch amid funereal bowers,<br>But let the stars and sunlight sparkle through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, with these thoughts before us, we have fixed<br>And beautified, O Death! thy mansion here,<br>Where gloom and gladness -- grave and garden -- mixed,<br>Make it a place to love, and not to fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heaven! shed thy most propitious dews around!<br>Ye holy stars! look down with tender eyes,<br>And gild and guard and consecrate the ground<br>Where we may rest, and whence we pray to rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Timrod">Henry Timrod</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=409072" data-title="Hymn Sung At The Consecration Of Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. de Henry Timrod" data-description="Whose was the hand that painted thee, O Death! In the false aspect of a ruthless foe, Despair and sorrow waiting on thy breath -- O gentle Power! who could have wronged thee so? Thou rather shouldst be crowned with fadeless flowers, Of lasting fr..."></div> </div> </div>

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