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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SENTINEL SONGS: 2, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography
First Line: When falls the cause of right
Last Line: And throb through a thousand years!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southern States; South (u.s.)
First Line: When falls the cause of right
Last Line: And throb through a thousand years!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southern States; South (u.s.)
When falls the cause of Right,
The poet grasps his pen,
And in gleaming letters of living light
Transmits the truth to men.
Go, songs! he says who sings;
Go! tell the world this tale;
Bear it afar on your tireless wings:
The Right will yet prevail.
Songs! sound like the thunder's breath!
Boom o'er the world and say:
Brave men may die -- Right has no death!
Truth never shall pass away!
Go! sing thro' a nation's sighs!
Go! sob thro' a people's tears!
Sweep the horizons of all the skies,
And throb through a thousand years!
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SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN