Greenleaf Whittier

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    So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
    Which once he wore!
    The glory from his gray hairs gone
    Forevermore!
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    All else is gone; from those great eyes
    The soul has fled:
    When faith is lost, when honor dies,
    The man is dead!

    Then, pay the reverence of old days
    To his dead fame;
    Walk backward, with averted gaze,
    And hide the shame!
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    Small pity for him!—He sailed away
    From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bay,—
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)