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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409954" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stonewall Jackson (Ascribed To A Virginian)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One man we claim of wrought reknown<br>Which not the North shall care to slur;<br>A Modern lived who sleeps in death,<br>Calm as the marble Ancients are:<br>'Tis he whose life, though a vapor's wreath,<br>Was charged with the lightning's burning breath -<br>Stonewall, stormer of the war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But who shall hymn the Roman heart?<br>A stoic he, but even more:<br>The iron will and lion thew<br>Were strong to inflict as to endure:<br>Who like him could stand, or pursue?<br>His fate the fatalist followed through;<br>In all his great soul found to do<br>Stonewall followed his star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He followed his star on the Romney march<br>Through the sleet to the wintry war;<br>And he followed it on when he bowed the grain -<br>The Wind of the Shenandoah;<br>At Gaines's Mill in the giants' strain -<br>On the fierce forced stride to Manassas-plain,<br>Where his sword with thunder was clothed again,<br>Stonewall followed his star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His star he followed athwart the flood<br>To Potomac's Northern shore,<br>When midway wading, his host of braves<br>'My Maryland!' loud did roar -<br>To red Antietam's field of graves,<br>Through mountain-passes, woods, and waves,<br>They followed their pagod with hymns and glaives,<br>For Stonewall followed a star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back it led him to Marye's slope,<br>Where the shock and the fame he bore;<br>And to green Moss-Neck it guided him -<br>Brief respite from throes of war:<br>To the laurel glade by the Wilderness grim,<br>Through climxed victory naught shall dim,<br>Even unto death it piloted him -<br>Stonewall followed his star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its lead he followed in gentle ways<br>Which never the valiant mar;<br>A cap we sent him. bestarred, to replace<br>The sun-scorched helm of war:<br>A fillet he made of the shining lace<br>Childhood's laughing brow to grace -<br>Not his was a goldsmith's star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, much of doubt in after days<br>Shall cling, as now, to the war;<br>Of the right and the wrong they'll still debate,<br>Puzzled by Stonewall's star:<br>'Fortune went with the North elate,'<br>'Ay, but the South had Stonewall's weight,<br>And he fell in the South's great war.'</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>
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Which not the North shall care to slur;
A Modern lived who sleeps in death,
Calm as the marble Ancients are:
'Tis he whose life, though a vapor's wreath,
Was charged with the lightning's burning breath -
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