Ode at Magnolia Cemetery

Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)



Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
  Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
  The pilgrim here to pause.

In seeds of laurel in the earth
  The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
  The shaft is in the stone!

Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years,
  Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
  And these memorial blooms.

Small tributes! but your shades will smile
  More proudly on these wreaths to-day,
Than when some cannon-moulded pile
  Shall overlook this bay.

Stoop, angels, thither from the skies!
  There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies,
  By mourning beauty crowned.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AXAX BCBC XDXD EFEF GHGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 689
Words 117
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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