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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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