Nature
Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston
From Heartsease and Rue
Nature
To those who died for her on land and sea,
That she might have a country great and free,
Boston builds this: build ye her monument
In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent.
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Lowell, James Russell. “Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/331/.
Chicago
Lowell, James Russell. “Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/331/.
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