<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416463" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Color Sergeant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(On an Incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Under a burning tropic sun,<br>With comrades around him lying,<br>A trooper of the sable Tenth<br>Lay wounded, bleeding, dying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First in the charge up the fort-crowned hill,<br>His company's guidon bearing,<br>He had rushed where the leaden hail fell fast,<br>Not death nor danger fearing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He fell in the front where the fight grew fierce,<br>Still faithful in life's last labor;<br>Black though his skin, yet his heart as true<br>As the steel of his blood-stained saber<br>.<br>And while the battle around him rolled,<br>Like the roar of a sullen breaker,<br>He closed his eyes on the bloody scene,<br>And presented arms to his Maker.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There he lay, without honor or rank,<br>But, still, in a grim-like beauty;<br>Despised of men for his humble race,<br>Yet true, in death, to his duty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Weldon+Johnson">James Weldon Johnson</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=416463" data-title="The Color Sergeant de James Weldon Johnson" data-description="(On an Incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill) Under a burning tropic sun, With comrades around him lying, A trooper of the sable Tenth Lay wounded, bleeding, dying. First in the charge up the fort-crowned hill, His company's guidon bearing, H..."></div> </div> </div>

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