Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/A Sacrifice
A SACRIFICE.
WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING GAZETTE.
Men may dilate on sacrifices made—
On things endured afflictive to be borne,
May point to martyrs that have e’en been flayed,
And others tortured or by wild beasts torn;
May show us courage, with a nerve of steel,
And resolution firmer set than bricks,
But nought is all to what I may reveal
That lately did my wondering eye transfix:
I saw a man, whose tender care bestowed,
Had reared a “goatee” to perfection’s height,
I knew the love that for that tuftlet glowed,
As month by month it grew in grace and might,
But yet, ah, mighty act, yon summer morn,—
A sacrifice was made—the cherished tuft was shorn!
Wideswarth.
