Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems

Look, like a village queen of May, the stream
Dances her best before the holiday sun,
And still with musical laugh goes tripping on
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I.
All joy to thee, my country, and my pride!
Be the glad muse my patriot lay to guide;
Suggest the thought, and lead the strain,
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In days long ago, when old England was young,
Her bows were the toughest that ever were strung,
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I. Against.
Think not thou that fields and flowers,
Copses and Arcadian bowers,
Grow the crop of Peace :-
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Once again my spirit waits
At a morrow's golden gates,
As in resurrection there
With the frankincense of prayer:
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Honest fellow, sore beset,
Vext by troubles quick and keen,
Thankfully consider yet
'How much worse it might have been:'
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Alas for trouble and care and sin,
And bitterness, hate, and strife!
That the heart grows cold and callous within,
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Behold, how glorious in his regal spoil
Marcellus comes, a victor more than human!
He, mighty warrior, shall the Roman weal
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First, honour thou the immortal gods, as a law of thy being:
Next, religiously keep thine oath, and reverence heroes:
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Luck, boys, luck! - a nugget of gold
Big as my fist in the blest black mould!
Luck! - a gallon of bright yellow grains
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