Our many-voiced acclaim shall here unlock

Time’s chest of honors, proffering what is thine.

Thy name is with the glorious names that shine

O’er War’s red flood, a beacon on a rock.

Thy soul, which bore its hour’s consummate shock.

All valorous thou did’st to fame consign.

Sheathed be the blade, nor seek through blood a name

Our foes are of our household; mingled rife

Through hourly needs there rings the vital strife

With doubt and sin, the lust of honor, shame: