<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409399" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Charles Sumner. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Garlands upon his grave<br>And flowers upon his hearse,<br>And to the tender heart and brave<br>The tribute of this verse. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His was the troubled life,<br>The conflict and the pain,<br>The grief, the bitterness of strife,<br>The honor without stain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like Winkelried, he took<br>Into his manly breast<br>The sheaf of hostile spears, and broke<br>A path for the oppressed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then from the fatal field<br>Upon a nation's heart<br>Borne like a warrior on his shield!--<br>So should the brave depart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death takes us by surprise,<br>And stays our hurrying feet;<br>The great design unfinished lies,<br>Our lives are incomplete. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in the dark unknown<br>Perfect their circles seem,<br>Even as a bridge's arch of stone<br>Is rounded in the stream. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alike are life and death,<br>When life in death survives,<br>And the uninterrupted breath<br>Inspires a thousand lives. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Were a star quenched on high,<br>For ages would its light,<br>Still travelling downward from the sky,<br>Shine on our mortal sight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when a great man dies,<br>For years beyond our ken,<br>The light he leaves behind him lies<br>Upon the paths of men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</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=409399" data-title="Charles Sumner. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Garlands upon his grave And flowers upon his hearse, And to the tender heart and brave The tribute of this verse. His was the troubled life, The conflict and the pain, The grief, the bitterness of strife, The honor without stain. Like Winkelri..."></div> </div> </div>

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