<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dirge For A Soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the east the morning comes,<br>Hear the rollin' of the drums<br>On the hill.<br>But the heart that beat as they beat<br>In the battle's raging day heat<br>Lieth still.<br>Unto him the night has come,<br>Though they roll the morning drum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is in the bugle's blast?<br>It is: 'Victory at last!<br>Now for rest.'<br>But, my comrades, come behold him,<br>Where our colors now enfold him,<br>And his breast<br>Bares no more to meet the blade,<br>But lies covered in the shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a stir there is to-day!<br>They are laying him away<br>Where he fell.<br>There the flag goes draped before him;<br>Now they pile the grave sod o'er him<br>With a knell.<br>And he answers to his name<br>In the higher ranks of fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a woman left to mourn<br>For the child that she has borne<br>In travail.<br>But her heart beats high and higher,<br>With the patriot mother's fire,<br>At the tale.<br>She has borne and lost a son,<br>But her work and his are done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fling the flag out, let it wave;<br>They 're returning from the grave--<br>'Double quick!'<br>And the cymbals now are crashing,<br>Bright his comrades' eyes are flashing<br>From the thick<br>Battle-ranks which knew him brave,<br>No tears for a hero's grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the east the morning comes,<br>Hear the rattle of the drums<br>Far away.<br>Now no time for grief's pursuing,<br>Other work is for the doing,<br>Here to-day.<br>He is sleeping, let him rest<br>With the flag across his breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477658" data-title="Dirge For A Soldier de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="In the east the morning comes, Hear the rollin' of the drums On the hill. But the heart that beat as they beat In the battle's raging day heat Lieth still. Unto him the night has come, Though they roll the morning drum. What is in the bugle's bla..."></div> </div> </div>

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