Shrilled triumphs and defeats,
Sold horrors and despairs.
Bells called the world to prayers.
ON THE DEATH OF AN UNTRIED SOLDIER
“He was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally; and for his passing
The soldiers’ music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.”—Hamlet.
He died in armor, died with lance in rest.
The trumpet had not sounded for the charge;