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lirik lagu robert browning - richard mitchley - the lost leader

just for a handful of silver he left us
just for a riband to stick in his coat—
found the one gift of which fortune bereft us
lost all the others she lets us devote;
they, with the gold to give, doled him out silver
so much was theirs who so little allowed:
how all our copper had gone for his service!
rags—were they purple, his heart had been proud!
we that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him
lived in his mild and magnificent eye
learned his great language, caught his clear accents
made him our pattern to live and to die!
shakespeare was of us, milton was for us
burns, sh~lley, were with us,—they watch from their graves!
he alone breaks from the van and the freemen
—he alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!

we shall march prospering,—not thro’ his presence;
songs may inspirit us,—not from his lyre;
deeds will be done,—while he boasts his quiescence
still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire:
blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more
one task more declined, one more footpath untrod
one more devils’~triumph and sorrow for angels
one wrong more to man, one more insult to god!
life’s night begins: let him never come back to us!
there would be doubt, hesitation and pain
forced praise on our part—the glimmer of twilight
never glad confident morning again!
best fight on well, for we taught him—strike gallantly
menace our heart ere we master his own;
then let him receive the new knowledge and wait us
pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne!

- lirik lagu robert browning

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