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 | Collected poems of Herman Melville |  |
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FOR THE SLAIN AT FREDERICKSBURGH
A glory lights an earnest end;In jubilee the patriot ghosts ascend.
Transfigured at the rapturous height
Of their passionate feat of arms,
Death to the brave's a starry night,—
Strown their vale of death with palms.
| Collected poems of Herman Melville | |