Poems

Chapter 32: THE FUTURE.

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A compact collection of short lyrics and occasional longer pieces that pair devotional reflection with sentimental and patriotic themes. Poems move between nature scenes, seascapes, and seasonal detail to explore faith, hope, duty, and the consolations of memory. Language tends toward clear, hymnlike phrasing and moral admonition, with moments of celebratory exhortation and public commemoration interspersed among intimate domestic and pastoral sketches.

THE FUTURE.

The work of the future! How much it may mean

To you and to me.

'Mid the wide-sweeping meadows of truth we may glean

Unchallenged, unseen;

As blithe as a bee.

And then of a sudden, on some golden morn,

The world shall agree

Of the mother, Ambition, a genius is born;

Nay! be not forlorn,

The future is free.