V. HEROIC. PATRIOTIC.-HISTORIC.- POLITICAL. "Pallas.-See yonder souls set far within the shade, Who in Elysian bowers the blessèd seats do keep, BEN JONSON: Golden Age Restored. Some awful moment to which Heaver has joined Great issues, good or bad for huma kind, Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness like a man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need: - He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a soul whose master bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be; Are at his heart; and such fidelity "Tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high, Conspicuous object in a nation's eye, Or left unthought of in obscurity, Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won; Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray; Who, not content that former worth stand fast, Looks forward persevering to the last, From well to better, daily self-surpassed: Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth Forever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must go to dust without his fame, And leave name, a dead, unprofitable |