John Greenleaf Whittier |
My heaert was heavy, for its trust had been Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong; So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men One summer Sabbath day I strolled among The Green mounds of the village burial-place; Where, pondering how all human love and hate Find one sad level; and how, son or late, Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face, And cold hands folded over a still heart, Pass the Green threshold of our common grave, Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart, Awed for myself, and pitying my race, Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave, Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave! |
Mi corazón pesaba, ya que su confianza había sido |