Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79.
Magnolia Cemetery
By Henry Timrod (18291867)S
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause!
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause,
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
More proudly on these wreaths to-day,
Than when some cannon-moulded pile
Shall overlook this bay.
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beauty crowned!