<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416516" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Monument For The Soldiers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A monument for the Soldiers!<br>And what will ye build it of?<br>Can ye build it of marble, or brass, or bronze,<br>Outlasting the Soldiers' love?<br>Can ye glorify it with legends<br>As grand as their blood hath writ<br>From the inmost shrine of this land of thine<br>To the outermost verge of it?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the answer came: We would build it<br>Out of our hopes made sure,<br>And out of our purest prayers and tears,<br>And out of our faith secure:<br>We would build it out of the great white truths<br>Their death hath sanctified,<br>And the sculptured forms of the men in arms,<br>And their faces ere they died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what heroic figures<br>Can the sculptor carve in stone?<br>Can the marble breast be made to bleed,<br>And the marble lips to moan?<br>Can the marble brow be fevered?<br>And the marble eyes be graved<br>To look their last, as the flag floats past,<br>On the country they have saved?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the answer came: The figures<br>Shall all be fair and brave,<br>And, as befitting, as pure and white<br>As the stars above their grave!<br>The marble lips, and breast and brow<br>Whereon the laurel lies,<br>Bequeath us right to guard the flight<br>Of the old flag in the skies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A monument for the Soldiers!<br>Built of a people's love,<br>And blazoned and decked and panoplied<br>With the hearts ye build it oft<br>And see that ye build it stately,<br>In pillar and niche and gate,<br>And high in pose as the souls of those<br>It would commemorate!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416516" data-title="A Monument For The Soldiers de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="A monument for the Soldiers! And what will ye build it of? Can ye build it of marble, or brass, or bronze, Outlasting the Soldiers' love? Can ye glorify it with legends As grand as their blood hath writ From the inmost shrine of this land of thine..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black