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To One of the Brave

Lucian B. Watkins 1879 (Chesterfield, Virginia) – 1921

Though forty-five long years, you say,
Have silvered o'er your head with gray,
Your friends rejoice, to-day, that you
Stand hale and hearty in your "blue."

Long for Old Glory you have stood
With truest sense of brotherhood;
Long may you live a useful life—
Noble and true in peace of strife.
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Scheme AABB CCDD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 300
Words 54
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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Lucian B. Watkins

Lucian B. Watkins was born in Chesterfield, Virginia in 1879. The author of Voices of Solitude (Donahue & Company, 1903), he worked as a teacher and served in World War I. He died in 1921. more…

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