R. W. E
FIRST American mature in mind,
Knowing a sun behind the body’s heat,
Whose life it was a natural God to find
In this whole continent and Concord street.
First of us all for whom the apparent world
Was of man’s dignity the outward sign,
Proud of mortality, proud that there curled
Patience over his rooftree like a vine.
Knowing a sun behind the body’s heat,
Whose life it was a natural God to find
In this whole continent and Concord street.
First of us all for whom the apparent world
Was of man’s dignity the outward sign,
Proud of mortality, proud that there curled
Patience over his rooftree like a vine.
Team it, he said, farm it the best you can,
Let every man rely on his own hard worth,
Know how hand can think and mind can burn,
Think with the wise, talk with the common man,
Watch in our west the plough of history turn
Another human furrow in the earth.
Let every man rely on his own hard worth,
Know how hand can think and mind can burn,
Think with the wise, talk with the common man,
Watch in our west the plough of history turn
Another human furrow in the earth.