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On The Slain At Chickamauga

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Happy are they and charmed in life     Who through long wars arrive unscarred     At peace. To such the wreath be given,     If they unfalteringly have striven--     In honor, as in limb, unmarred.     Let cheerful praise be rife,     And let them live their years at ease,     Musing on brothers who victorious died--     Loved mates whose memory shall ever please.     And yet mischance is honorable too--     Seeming defeat in conflict justified     Whose end to closing eyes is hid from view.     The will, that never can relent--     The aim, survivor of the bafflement,     Make this memorial due.

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