Freedom Sinks When Honor Dies.
When Greece, in arts end arms supreme,
Rose sovereign o’er her darkened age,
And lent its all immortal theme
To grateful History’s page.
When words, like arrows winged with fire,
Touch’d hearts that kindled at the flame,
And song, reechoing to her lyre,
Heard the far voice of coming Fame.
Then Freedom kept a guarded mound,
That fortress rock where Athens sate,
And Wisdoms souls divinely crowned
Its sheltering Genius held the State.
Resistless Thoughts, its vital beam
To bard, and sage, and hero gave,
What long has lit Time’s upward stream,
And shines eternal on the wave
This was her boast, and is her pride,
The old Republic’s stern behest;
That mind to answering mind replied;
And they who swayed her were her best
This wrote her story with the stars;
She perished! How her annals tell,
Hate, envy meanness, all that mars
And Folly ruled, as Greatness fell.
The Force and Fraud’s barbarian will
Rose o’er the noble mind’s decay,
And sank on tower and temple hill
The twilight shade that close her day.
The golden moral Eld enrolls,
O, proud Columbia, to thine eyes,
Bids thee love most thy noble souls
For Freedom sinks when honor dies!
Title: For Freedom Sinks When Honor Dies
Author: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Year: Unknown
Media: Newspaper article, glued to Page 206 of the Ledger of Captain W. B.
Blair
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