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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535217" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Virgil Strange I Kept On The Field</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night:<br> When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side that day,<br> One look I but gave, which your dear eyes return'd, with a look I<br> shall never forget;<br> One touch of your hand to mine, O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the<br> ground;<br> Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle;<br> Till late in the night reliev'd, to the place at last again I made my<br> way;<br> Found you in death so cold, dear comrade--found your body, son of<br> responding kisses, (never again on earth responding;)<br> Bared your face in the starlight--curious the scene--cool blew the<br> moderate night-wind;<br> Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battlefield<br> spreading;<br> Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet, there in the fragrant silent<br> night;    10<br> But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh--Long, long I gazed;<br> Then on the earth partially reclining, sat by your side, leaning my<br> chin in my hands;<br> Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you, dearest<br> comrade--Not a tear, not a word;<br> Vigil of silence, love and death--vigil for you my son and my<br> soldier,<br> As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole;<br> Vigil final for you, brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your<br> death,<br> I faithfully loved you and cared for you living--I think we shall<br> surely meet again;)<br> Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn<br> appear'd,<br> My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop'd well his form,<br> Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head, and<br> carefully under feet;   20<br> And there and then, and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his<br> grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited;<br> Ending my vigil strange with that--vigil of night and battlefield<br> dim;<br> Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth<br> responding;)<br> Vigil for comrade swiftly slain--vigil I never forget, how as day<br> brighten'd,<br> I rose from the chill ground, and folded my soldier well in his<br> blanket,<br> And buried him where he fell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q>
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