Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TAPS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE


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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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