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  • Ode Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead

    [At Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C.]

    SLEEP sweetly in your humble graves,—
      Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause!
    Though yet no marble column craves
      The pilgrim here to pause,

    In seeds of laurel in the earth
      The blossom of your fame is blown,
    And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
      The shaft is in the stone!

    ...

    Henry Timrod

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