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Oliver Wendell Holmes - Hymn For The Inauguration Of The Statue Of Governor Andrew
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ANDREW, HINGHAM, OCTOBER 7, 1875

BEHOLD the shape our eyes have known!
It lives once more in changeless stone;
So looked in mortal face and form
Our guide through peril`s deadly storm.

But hushed the beating heart we knew,
That heart so tender, brave, and true,
Firm as the rooted mountain rock,
Pure as the quarry`s whitest block!

Not his beneath the blood-red star
To win the soldier`s envied sear;
Unarmed he battled for the right,
In Duty`s never-ending fight.

Unconquered will, unslumbering eye,
Faith such as bids the martyr die,
The prophet`s glance, the master`s hand
To mould the work his foresight planned,

These were his gifts; what Heaven had lent
For justice, mercy, truth, he spent,
First to avenge the traitorous blow,
And first to lift the vanquished foe.

Lo, thus he stood; in danger`s strait
The pilot of the Pilgrim State!
Too large his fame for her alone,--
A nation claims him as her own!
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