At Magnolia Cemetery
By Henry Timrod�(1828-1867) |
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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,
hither from the skies!
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beauty
crowned. |
By
Henry Timrod� (1828-1867)
Listed March 29, 2013
This poem, written shortly after the Civil War, is about
the
fallen confederate warriors buried at
Magnolia Cemetery
in Charleston, SC. It was listed on the
National Register of
Historic Places as a Historic
District in 1978.
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