Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.
By Henry LyndenFlash863 Stonewall Jackson
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Nor in the rush upon the vandal foe,
Did kingly Death, with his resistless might,
Lay the great leader low.
In the full sunshine of a peaceful town;
When all the storm was hushed, the trusty oak
That propped our cause went down.
Recalling all his grand heroic deeds,
Freedom herself is writhing in the wound,
And all the country bleeds.
At the red belching of the cannon’s mouth,
But broke the House of Bondage with his hand—
The Moses of the South!
A glorious sunbeam gilds thy sternest frown;
And while his country staggers ’neath the Cross,
He rises with the Crown!