Poems (Robert Underwood Johnson)/Herbert Mapes

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HERBERT MAPES (DROWNED AUGUST 23, 1891)
Last night, what kingdom on his brow!
 What mellow music in his voice!
 What strength to make the eye rejoice!
What life! what flush of youth! . . . and now!

O brow dethroned! O muffled bell
 Of speech! O net too loosely wove!
 O sunken freight of hope and love!
Come back till we have said farewell!

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