Death & Dying
To the Forgotten Dead
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
Death & Dying
To the forgotten dead,
Come, let us drink in silence ere we part.
To every fervent yet resolved heart
That brought its tameless passion and its tears,
Renunciation and laborious years,
To lay the deep foundations of our race,
To rear its stately fabric overhead
And light its pinnacles with golden grace.
To the unhonored dead.
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Woods, Margaret L. “To the Forgotten Dead.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/woods_ml/4/.
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Woods, Margaret L. “To the Forgotten Dead.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/woods_ml/4/.
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