As the Greek’s Signal Flame
[For Whittier’s eightieth birthday, December 17, 1887.]
[For Whittier’s eightieth birthday, December 17, 1887.]
As the Greek’s signal flame, by antique records told,
Rose from the hill-top, like applause and glory,
Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,
With rosy tinge reddening the land he’d served,
So I aloft from Mannahatta’s ship-fringed shore,
Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.