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INSCRIPTION FOR THE SLAIN AT FREDERICKSBURGH by HERMAN MELVILLE

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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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