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Poem
April 24, 1891
The Olneyville Times
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
What is this article about?
Poem 'Two Bards' contrasts a gloomy bard's heathen hymn with a gray, grinning sea and a joyful singer's celebration of a glad, young world and God. Mankind oscillates between their sad and happy refrains, from bitter north to kind south land.
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TWO BARDS.
A bard who wrote in stay
Once made a heathen hymn
It had this sign refrain.
That moved as though in pain
"The underthought of gray
Makes the sea grin"
A much land singer made
With happy heart and fire
The living, not the dead.
He dealt with, as he said.
-The world is glad and young.
And God to me."
And ever since mankind
Is shuttled back and forth
Let weep these singers twain
Of glad and sad refrain:
The south land waste and kind,
The bitter north.
-Richard E. Burton in Harper's Weekly.
A bard who wrote in stay
Once made a heathen hymn
It had this sign refrain.
That moved as though in pain
"The underthought of gray
Makes the sea grin"
A much land singer made
With happy heart and fire
The living, not the dead.
He dealt with, as he said.
-The world is glad and young.
And God to me."
And ever since mankind
Is shuttled back and forth
Let weep these singers twain
Of glad and sad refrain:
The south land waste and kind,
The bitter north.
-Richard E. Burton in Harper's Weekly.
What sub-type of article is it?
Song
What themes does it cover?
Nature Seasons
Religious Faith
What keywords are associated?
Two Bards
Heathen Hymn
Gray Sea
Glad World
God Faith
South North
Richard Burton
Harpers Weekly
What entities or persons were involved?
Richard E. Burton In Harper's Weekly.
Poem Details
Title
Two Bards.
Author
Richard E. Burton In Harper's Weekly.
Key Lines
"The Underthought Of Gray Makes The Sea Grin"
The World Is Glad And Young. And God To Me."
The South Land Waste And Kind, The Bitter North.