Read the poem: “For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh”

by James Russell Lowell

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American Literature – American Poetry – James Russell Lowell
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For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh

Set up in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, by American Contributors.

The New World’s sons, from England’s breasts we drew
Such milk as bids remember whence we came;
Proud of her Past, wherefrom our Present grew,
This window we inscribe with Raleigh’s name.

Proposed for a Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Boston.

To those who died for her on land and sea,
That she might have a country great and free,
Boston builds this: build ye her monument
In lives like theirs, at duty’s summons spent.

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