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Lines In Memory Of William Leggett.

By William Cullen Bryant

Topics: classic

The earth may ring, from shore to shore,     With echoes of a glorious name,     But he, whose loss our tears deplore,     Has left behind him more than fame.     For when the death-frost came to lie     On Leggett's warm and mighty heart,     And quenched his bold and friendly eye,     His spirit did not all depart.     The words of fire that from his pen     Were flung upon the fervent page,     Still move, still shake the hearts of men,     Amid a cold and coward age.     His love of truth, too warm, too strong     For Hope or Fear to chain or chill,     His hate of tyranny and wrong,     Burn in the breasts he kindled still.

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About William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was an American poet and journalist. His poem "Thanatopsis" (1817) was the first major American poem. He edited the New York Evening Post for 50 years and was a champion of American poetry.

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