Theodore O'Hara

Quotes

• “The muffled drum's sad roll has beat    The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet    That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground    Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round,    The bivouac of the dead.”
• “Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,    Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound    Along the heedless air; Your own proud land's heroic soil    Shall be your fitter grave; She claims from war his richest spoil—    The ashes of her brave.”
• “Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone,    In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age hath flown    The story how ye fell; Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,    Nor Time's remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of glory's light    That gilds your deathless tomb.”
• “A dirge for the brave old pioneer!    Knight-errant of the wood! Calmly beneath the green sod here    He rests from field and flood The war-whoop and the panther's screams    No more his soul shall rouse, For well the aged hunter dreams    Beside his good old spouse.”

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