James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
November 30Jefferson Davis
By Harry Thurston Peck (18561914)(Died November 30, 1879)
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The Nation feels for him who erst assailed
Her life, and strove against the will of fate
To found an Empire and destroy a State.
She stands to-day magnificently mailed
In loyal love, too gloriously great
For thought of vengeance that were all too late.
With joy, now slinks through the dark Oblivion’s gate,
With this his epitaph: When others quailed,
He staked his all upon one cast of fate
And lost—and lived to know that he had failed!