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ON THE GRAVE, OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER by HERMAN MELVILLE

Poet Analysis

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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