On The Death Of Leopold, King Of The Belgians

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Title:     On The Death Of Leopold, King Of The Belgians
Author: Charles Kingsley [More Titles by Kingsley]

On the Death of Leopold, King of the Belgians {A}

A King is dead! Another master mind
Is summoned from the world-wide council hall.
Ah, for some seer, to say what links behind--
To read the mystic writing on the wall!

Be still, fond man: nor ask thy fate to know.
Face bravely what each God-sent moment brings.
Above thee rules in love, through weal and woe,
Guiding thy kings and thee, the King of kings.

Windsor Castle,
November 10, 1865.

 

Footnote {A} Impromptu lines written in the album of the Crown Princess of Germany.

[The end]
Charles Kingsley's poem: On The Death Of Leopold, King Of The Belgians

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