Quotation by John Greenleaf Whittier

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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

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), U.S. poet. Ichabod (l. 29–36). . .

Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.

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