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  • Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!

    Henry Timrod, “Ode:Sung On The. Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead”