Ermine or blazonry, he knew them not,
  Nor cloth of gold, for Duty was his Queen;
But this he knew,—a soul without a spot,
  Judgment untarnished, and a conscience clean.

In peace, in war, a worker day and night,
  Laborious chieftain! toiling at his lamp;
The children had the splendor of the fight,—
  Home was his battle-field, his...