Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War/On the Grave
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On the Grave
of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia.
Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends—
Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he
Whom here low violets veil from eyes.
But all these gifts transcended be:
His happier fortune in this mound you see.