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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BUILDERS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, summer, autumn, winter Last Line: And work with god's right hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer | |||
SPRING, summer, autumn, winter, Come duly, as of old; Winds blow, suns set, and morning saith, "Ye hills, put on your gold." The song of Homer liveth, Dead Solon is not dead; Thy splendid name, Pythagoras, O'er realms of suns is spread. But Babylon and Memphis Are letters traced in dust: Read them, earth's tyrants! ponder well The might in which ye trust! They rose, while all the depths of guilt Their vain creators sounded; They fell, because on fraud and force Their corner-stones were founded. Truth, mercy, knowledge, justice, Are powers that ever stand; They build their temples in the soul, And work with God's right hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BATTLE SONG by EBENEZER ELLIOTT CORN-LAW HYMN by EBENEZER ELLIOTT ON COMMUNISTS; EPIGRAM by EBENEZER ELLIOTT A GHOST AT NOON by EBENEZER ELLIOTT BOTHWELL; A DRAMATIC POEM by EBENEZER ELLIOTT BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842 by EBENEZER ELLIOTT COME AND GONE by EBENEZER ELLIOTT CORN LAW RHYMES, SELECTION by EBENEZER ELLIOTT |
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