[THE LOVES OF THE NATIONS.]
[Read at the Arlington National Cemetery, Decoration Day, 1884.]
I.
The Grecians loved their soldier dead:
They prized the casket, though the pearl had fled.
When he who could be dangerous in the fight,
Had proved his soul's magnificence and might,
But—his poor body vanquished—with a sigh
Had laid him down upon the sands to die,
He vaulted 'mongst the nation's honored sons;