<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409920" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gettysburg</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Pride of the days in prime of the months<br>Now trebled in great renown,<br>When before the ark of our holy cause<br> Fell Dagon down-<br>Dagon foredoomed, who, armed and targed,<br>Never his impious heart enlarged<br>Beyond that hour; God walled his power,<br>And there the last invader charged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He charged, and in that charge condensed<br>His all of hate and all of fire;<br>He sought to blast us in his scorn,<br> And wither us in his ire.<br>Before him went the shriek of shells-<br>Aerial screamings, taunts and yells;<br>Then the three waves in flashed advance<br>Surged, but were met, and back they set:<br>Pride was repelled by sterner pride,<br>And Right is a strong-hold yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before our lines it seemed a beach<br>Which wild September gales have strown<br>With havoc on wreck, and dashed therewith<br> Pale crews unknown-<br>Men, arms, and steeds. The evening sun<br>Died on the face of each lifeless one,<br>And died along the winding marge of fight<br> And searching-parties lone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sloped on the hill the mounds were green,<br>Our centre held that place of graves,<br>And some still hold it in their swoon,<br>And over these a glory waves.<br>The warrior-monument, crashed in fight,<br>Shall soar transfigured in loftier light,<br> A meaning ampler bear;<br>Soldier and priest with hymn and prayer<br>Have laid the stone, and every bone<br> Shall rest in honor there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409920" data-title="Gettysburg de Herman Melville" data-description="O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of our holy cause Fell Dagon down- Dagon foredoomed, who, armed and targed, Never his impious heart enlarged Beyond that hour; God walled his power, And t..."></div> </div> </div>

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