Death & Dying
For a Gravestone in Spain
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Death & Dying
Say thou who liest here beneath,
To fall in battle is not death.
You, tho' no pall on you was cast,
Heard the first trump nor fear'd the last.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “For a Gravestone in Spain.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/275/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “For a Gravestone in Spain.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/275/.
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