Friday, April 16, 2010
Ode:Sung On The. Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead Comments
Rating: ★2.8
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
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7/20/2025 6:49:38 PM # 1.0.0
A stirring tribute. I don't feel such stirring thoughts when looking out over Arlington Cemetery- I just feel such sadness that so many lives were cut short even for the noblest of causes. Mankind buries its future in these graves.