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TAPS by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE

Poet Analysis

First Line: SLEEP, NOW THAT THE CHARGE IS WON
Last Line: SLEEP.
Subject(s): HOLIDAYS; SLEEP; VETERANS DAY;
SLEEP.
Now that the charge is won,
Sleep in the narrow clod;
Now it is set of sun,
Sleep till the trump of God.
Sleep.
Sleep.
Fame is a bugle call
Blown past a crumbling wall;
Battles are clean forgot;
Captains and towns are not:
Sleep shall outlast them all.
Sleep.




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