FORGOTTEN! Can it be a few swift rounds
Of Time’s great chariot wheels have crushed to naught
The memory of those fearful sights and sounds,
With speechless misery fraught–
Wherethro’ we hope to gain the Hesperian height,
Where Freedom smiles in light?
Forgotten! scarce have two dim autumns veiled
With merciful mist those dreary burial sods,
Whose coldness (when the high-strung pulses failed,
Of men who strove like gods)
Wrapped in a sanguine fold of senseless dust
Dead hearts and perished trust!
Forgotten! While in far-off woodland dell,
By lonely mountain tarn and murmuring stream,
Bereav
(Paul Hamilton Hayne)
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