Poem: “Andre’s Request to Washington” by Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Andre’s Request to Washington

It is not the fear of death
  That damps my brow;
It is not for another breath
  I ask thee now;
I can die with lip unstirr’d
  And a quiet heart—
Let but this prayer be heard
  Ere I depart.

I can give up my mother’s look—
  My sister’s kiss;
I can think of love—yet brook
  A death like this!
I can give up the young fame
  I burn’d to win—
All—but the spotless name
  I glory in!

Thine is the power to give,
  Thine to deny,
Joy for the hour I live—
  Calmness to die.
By all the brave should cherish,
  By my dying breath,
I ask that I may perish
  By a soldier’s death.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Nathaniel Parker Willis – Poems by Nathaniel Parker Willis

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