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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION FOR THE SLAIN AT FREDERICKSBURGH, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
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
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.
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