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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Soldier's Funeral</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The muffled drum rolled on the air,<br>Warriors, with stately step, were there;<br>On every arm was the black crape bound,<br>Every carbine was turned to the ground;<br>Solemn, the sound of their measured tread,<br>As silent and slow, they followed the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The riderless horse was led in the rear;<br>There were white plumes waving over the bier;<br>Helmet and sword were laid on the pall,<br>For, it was a soldier's funeral.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That soldier had stood on the battle plain,<br>Where every step was over the slain;<br>But the brand and the ball had passed him by,<br>And he came to his native land, to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas hard to come to that native land,<br>And not clasp one familiar hand;<br>'Twas hard to be numbered amid the dead,<br>Before he could hear his welcome said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, 'twas something to see its cliffs once more,<br>And to lay his bones on his own loved shore;<br>To think, that the friends of his youth might weep,<br>O'er the green grass turf of the soldier's sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bugles ceased their wailing sound,<br>As the coffin was lowered into the ground;<br>A volley was fired, a blessing said,<br>One moment's pause, and they left the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a poor and aged man -<br>His step was feeble, his cheek was wan;<br>He knelt him down on the new-raised mound,<br>His face was bowed on the cold damp ground;<br>He raised his head, his tears were done -<br>The father had prayed o'er his only son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Letitia+Elizabeth+Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a><div class=q>
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Warriors, with stately step, were there;
On every arm was the black crape bound,
Every carbine was turned to the ground;
Solemn, the sound of their measured tread,
As silent and slow, they followed the dead.

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