Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Garfield
By Henry Bernard Carpenter (1840–1890)L
By some strong hand that moulds with tear and sigh
Beauty more beautiful than things that die,—
And straight ’tis veiled; and whilst all men repair
To see this wonder in the workshop, there!
Behold, it gleams unveiled to curious eye,
Far-seen, high-placed in Art’s pale gallery,
Where all stand mute before a work so fair:
So he, our man of men, in vision stands,
With Pain and Patience crowned imperial;
Death’s veil has dropped; far from this house of woe
He hears one love-chant out of many lands,
Whilst from his mystic morn-height he lets fall
His shadow o’er these hearts that bleed below.