The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-19
mers OF immortal song:

TO fOmefS OF lU'I'It3i r'"hs
Let Millions with angelic eye
Behold the battles OF the SKY,
or turn with equal sweep and tell
The secrets OF the lowest nell
Mine be TO sing In humble strain
or those who boldly died TO gam
A cause so sacred and 80 dear
II cannot De, but reappcar
In every agc-the right divine
Tho right OF freemcn to combine
When fraud or force would nullify
The charter OF their liberty
Virginia, synonym OF all
That's good or great. on thee can
For inspiration. such as given
10 poets from a tabled heaven,
Tromethcan fire nor needs 10 SHRINE.
I'm hearts that worship at thy shrine.
For tho the plain OF Marathon
is dear to every Grccian son.
Tho sun Of Austerlitz enhance
The noon-tide splcndor Of proud FRANCE
Tho England. ever after too.
May point with pride TO Waterloo,
Tho Greece may claim Dcmosthcnes
Her tragic prince-Euripcdes,
We boast not yet the world concedcs
In cloquence in mighty deeds
Virginia gives the greatest namo
In each upon the rolls OF fame.
First. the immortal Washington,
Who stands pre-cminent. the one.
Above all others who shall stand
For freedoms name in every land;
Next Henry, whose impetuous soul
Within him burned as living coal.
Whose tongue made colder natures feei
The heat OF his own kinding zeal,
Whose flaming words could burn their way
Through opposition. and convey
TO all who hung upon their tone.
courage equal TO his own.
Last. 10 the world Virginia gives
\ name that now and ever ives
name as movcless as the base
or yonder mountain from its place,
Fixed and immovable as fate
with all that's pure and good ana erea''-
The grandest Of the century
Tho name OF Robert Edward Lee.
Ills not our purpose to recount
Tho heights which he eSsayed 10 mount,
Nor how his fame must ever grow
As soft'ning centuries come and go,
He lives for all. no factions claim
The prestige of his mighty name.
But comrades, we have met to-day
our feeble tribute to convey
10 those who simply wore the gray
For whom no blaring trumpets sing
For whom no welcome plaudits rins'
Who sleep without n shaft to tell
Tho glorious fields on which they fell
And yet We would the world should kno"
The grandest monument below
Gravd not on stone by sculptors ART
But written I'm the human heart,
L. theirs. and theirs shall ever be
While men are brave and men are free.
Virginia called and forth they went
To wounds. to death imprisonment,
From hill and dale and mountain-sioe'
or where old oceans swelling tde
Its white spray rolls upon the shore.
They sprang to arms. true TO the core,
Each stout. young heart to do or Gle
For native land and liberty.
Ave. should their glorious deeds be told
In words that never could grow cold,
At Malvern Hill. Mt Seven Pines.
The dauntless charge along the lnes'
That laugh'd at danger, rushing on,
Until the bloody field was won;
or at Manassas swept away
Pope's mighty army in a day
At Chancellors or on the height
OF Gettysburg. their deeds did write
A story none can falSify-
Ave. history that cannot die
While truth remains and valor stirs
The hearts of freedoms worshippers.
Beaten at last" the coward cries.
(The base patroon. who sells his nesJ
BY equal numbers" We repeat
Lee's army never knew defeat,
Overwhelmed by mere brute force alone,
BY numbers twenty times its own.
1nieed there never trod the earth,
Traced backward to its birth
An army that could ever boast
That IL had conquered such host'
With equal numbers, death alone
Could halt its line when marching on.
Truth crushed TO earth Will rise again,
VIII riss superior to her pain.
The nations OF the earth Will know
Who struck the fratric.dal blow
When heroes Of tho blue and gray
Shall each TO each due homage pay,
And scorn with all their martial souls
The towards base and venal Ghouls'
Who summed the conflict they had bred
And live but TO malgn the dead;
DUAL PORTER.