First Line: A GLORY LIGHTS AN EARNEST END Last Line: STROWN THEIR VALE OF DEATH WITH PALMS. Subject(s): AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; FREDERICKSBURG, BATTLE OF (1862); U.S. - HISTORY;
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.
