<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420530" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Memory: James T. Fields</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a guest who may not stay<br>Long and sad farewells to say<br>Glides with smiling face away,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the sweetness and the zest<br>Of thy happy life possessed<br>Thou hast left us at thy best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Warm of heart and clear of brain,<br>Of thy sun-bright spirit's wane<br>Thou hast spared us all the pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that thou hast gone away,<br>What is left of one to say<br>Who was open as the day?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is there to gloss or shun?<br>Save with kindly voices none<br>Speak thy name beneath the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Safe thou art on every side,<br>Friendship nothing finds to hide,<br>Love's demand is satisfied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over manly strength and worth,<br>At thy desk of toil, or hearth,<br>Played the lambent light of mirth,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mirth that lit, but never burned;<br>All thy blame to pity turned;<br>Hatred thou hadst never learned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every harsh and vexing thing<br>At thy home-fire lost its sting;<br>Where thou wast was always spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thy perfect trust in good,<br>Faith in man and womanhood,<br>Chance and change and time, withstood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small respect for cant and whine,<br>Bigot's zeal and hate malign,<br>Had that sunny soul of thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But to thee was duty's claim<br>Sacred, and thy lips became<br>Reverent with one holy Name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore, on thy unknown way,<br>Go in God's peace! We who stay<br>But a little while delay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keep for us, O friend, where'er<br>Thou art waiting, all that here<br>Made thy earthly presence dear;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something of thy pleasant past<br>On a ground of wonder cast,<br>In the stiller waters glassed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keep the human heart of thee;<br>Let the mortal only be<br>Clothed in immortality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when fall our feet as fell<br>Thine upon the asphodel,<br>Let thy old smile greet us well;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Proving in a world of bliss<br>What we fondly dream in this,--<br>Love is one with holiness!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420530" data-title="In Memory: James T. Fields de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="As a guest who may not stay Long and sad farewells to say Glides with smiling face away, Of the sweetness and the zest Of thy happy life possessed Thou hast left us at thy best. Warm of heart and clear of brain, Of thy sun-bright spirit's wane T..."></div> </div> </div>

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