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ON THE GRAVE, OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends
Last Line: His happier fortune in this mound you see.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones


Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends --
Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he
Whom here low violets veil from eyes.
But all these gifts transcended be:
His happier fortune in this mound you see.





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