The Burial Of Sherman
by Richard Watson Gilder (1844
- 1909) |
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Glory and honor and fame and everlasting laudation
For our captains who loved not war, but fought for the life
of the nation;
Who knew that, in all the land, one slave
meant strife, not peace;
Who fought for freedom, not
glory; made war that war might cease.
Glory and honor
and fame; the beating of muffled drums;
The wailing
funeral dirge, as the flag-wrapt coffin comes.
Fame and
honor and glory, and joy for a noble soul;
For a full and
splendid life, and laurelled rest at the goal.
Glory
and honor and fame; the pomp that a soldier prizes;
The
league-long waving line as the marching falls and rises;
Rumbling of caissons and guns; the clatter of horses' feet,
And a million awe-struck faces far down the waiting street.
But better than martial woe, and the pageant of civic
sorrow;
Better than praise of to-day, or the statue we
build to-morrow;
Better than honor and glory, and
History's iron pen,
Was the thought of duty done and the
love of his fellow-men. |
By Richard Watson Gilder (1844 - 1909)
Listed September 16, 2012Note: Sherman died on January 14. His funeral took place two days
later. The statue by Saint Gaudens was unveiled in New York in
1903.
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