  BY WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS AUTHOR OF "THOMAS JEFFERSON", "THE TURK AND HIS LOST PROVINCES", "THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN POWERS", ETC. WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. —Lowell, Commemoration Ode |
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