Robert Browning's poem: The Patriot

The Patriot

An old story

I

It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad:
The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway,
The church-spires flamed, such flags they had,
A year ago on this very day.

II

The air broke into a mist with bells,
The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries.
Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels--
But give me your sun from yonder skies!"
They had answered, "And afterward, what else?" . . . . . . 10

III

Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun
To give it my loving friends to keep!
Nought man could do, have I left undone:
And you see my harvest, what I reap
This very day, now a year is run.

IV

There's nobody on the house-tops now--
Just a palsied few at the windows set;
For the best of the sight is, all allow,
At the Shambles' Gate--or, better yet,
By the very scaffold's foot, I trow. . . . . . . 20

V

I go in the rain, and, more than needs,
A rope cuts both my wrists behind;
And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds,
For they fling, whoever has a mind,
Stones at me for my year's misdeeds.

VI

Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead.
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"--God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so. . . . . . .30

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"The Patriot" is a hero's story of the reward and punishment
dealt him for his services within one year. To act
regardless of praise or blame, save God's, seems safer.
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Patriots of our country:In 1971 some fought for independence and some
worked against it.Now we are a independent nation.Some of those freedom fighters,most new fighters ,and traitors are now managing their rewards:as people are not spontaneously awarding them ,they themselves are managing awards .They can consider any and many things as awards.popular response is appropriate:watching and silently accepting...

Seems Creator gives us infinite patience and ability to accept any thing.Politicins are ceaselessly running after award without ever stoping :how much patience and ability they have?General people have more patience:watching ,watching...never bored.We(politicians excluded) are blessed with the quality of "rise once and then tolerate forever".

we all believe onething:this world is only for politicains and world after death is for all of us.We are continuously justifying our belief :(