Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.
Requiem: Breathe, trumpets, breatheGeorge Lunt (18031885)
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Sadly responsive peal, ye muffled drums.
Comrades, with downcast eyes and muskets trailing,
Attend him home: the youthful warrior comes,
Borne from the field of battle where he fell.
Glory and grief together clasped in mourning,
His fame, his fate, with sobs exulting tell.
His country’s flag, in battle’s front unrolled:
For it he died,—on earth forever ended,
His brave young life lives in each sacred fold.
Bear him, and lay him gently in his grave.
Above the hero write, the young, half-sainted,
“His country asked his life, his life he gave.”