The Washington Post
Sunday, April 12, 1914
Buchanan's Verses Told His Devotion
A hitherto unpublished poem by James Buchanan, dated Lancaster, Penn., August 26. 1819, and dedicated to Miss Anne C. Coleman. who died suddenly after breaking her engagement with him.
And is my dream of faith and hope
Forever gone into the past?
And will the god of mercy cope
With all my sunken hopes at last?
It cannot be that I shall meet
No more those eyes of, light divine;
It cannot be your memory sweet
Can ever part from me and mine?
Some other day I hope and pray
The shadows of this desperate hour
Shall vanish in a brighter day,
And truth and trust shall vent their power!
Some other day not far away,
As God is truth and I am true,
These ugly doubts shall fly away
And show I am not false to you.
Until that hour, dear heart, be true,
For here I pledge my all to you!
"James Buchanan's Blighted Romance," by Isaac R. Sherwood, Washington Post, Sunday, April 12, 1914. (PDF)
Congressman Sherwood read this poem into the Congressional Record in: The Memorial Statue to Ex-President James Buchanan., Extension of Remarks of Hon. Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio In the House of Representatives, Thursday, February 21, 1918. (PDF).