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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538319" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fort Wagner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.Glory unto the gallant boys who stood<br>At Wagner, and, unflinching, sought the van;<br>Dealing fierce blows, and shedding precious blood,<br>For homes as precious, and dear rights of man!<br>They've won the meed, and they shall have the glory;--<br>Song, with melodious memories, shall repeat<br>The legend, which shall grow to themes for story,<br>Told through long ages, and forever sweet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">High honor to our youth--our sons and brothers,<br>Georgians and Carolinians, where they stand!<br>They will not shame their birthrights, or their mothers,<br>But keep, through storm, the bulwarks of the land!<br>They feel that they _must_ conquer! Not to do it,<br>Were worse than death--perdition! Should they fail,<br>The innocent races yet unborn shall rue it,<br>The whole world feel the wound, and nations wail!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No! They must conquer in the breach or perish!<br>Assured, in the last consciousness of breath,<br>That love shall deck their graves, and memory cherish<br>Their deeds, with honors that shall sweeten death!<br>They shall have trophies in long future hours,<br>And loving recollections, which shall be<br>Green, as the summer leaves, and fresh as flowers,<br>That, through all seasons, bloom eternally!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their memories shall be monuments, to rise<br>Next those of mightiest martyrs of the past;<br>Beacons, when angry tempests sweep the skies,<br>And feeble souls bend crouching to the blast!<br>A shrine for thee, young Cheves, well devoted,<br>Most worthy of a great, illustrious sire;--<br>A niche for thee, young Haskell, nobly noted,<br>When skies and seas around thee shook with fire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And others as well chronicled shall be!<br>What though they fell with unrecorded name--<br>They live among the archives of the free,<br>With proudest title to undying fame!<br>The unchisell'd marble under which they sleep,<br>Shall tell of heroes, fearless still of fate;<br>Not asking if their memories shall keep,<br>But if they nobly served, and saved, the State!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>For thee, young Fortress Wagner--thou shalt wear<br>Green laurels, worthy of the names that now,<br>Thy sister forts of Moultrie, Sumter, bear!<br>See that thou lift'st, for aye, as proud a brow!<br>And thou shalt be, to future generations,<br>A trophied monument; whither men shall come<br>In homage; and report to distant nations,<br>A SHRINE, which foes shall never make a TOMB!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Gilmore+Simms">William Gilmore Simms</a><div class=q>
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At Wagner, and, unflinching, sought the van;
Dealing fierce blows, and shedding precious blood,
For homes as precious, and dear rights of man!
They've won the meed, and they shall have the glory;--
Song, wit..."></div>
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