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Herman Melville - Memorials On The Slain At ChickamaugaHerman Melville - Memorials On The Slain At Chickamauga
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Happy are they and charmed in life   Who through long wars arrive unscarred At peace. To such the wreath be given, If they unfalteringly have striven   In honor, as in limb, unmarred. Let cheerful praise be rife,   And let them live their years at ease, Musing on brothers who victorious died   Loved mates whose memory shall ever please.   And yet mischance is honorable too   Seeming defeat in conflict justified Whose end to closing eyes is hid from view. The will, that never can relent The aim, survivor of the bafflement,     Make this memorial due.
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