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Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee

Written: 18th May 1916

First Published in The Coyote, Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1917), Pages 1-2

“Si veris magna paratur
Fama bonis, et si successu nuda remoto
Inspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ullo
Majorum, fortuna fuit.”

—Lucan.

 Whilst martial echoes o’er the wave resound,
 And Europe’s gore incarnadines the ground;
 Today no foreign hero we bemoan,
 But count the glowing virtues of our own!
 Illustrious LEE! around whose honour’d name
 Entwines a patriot’s and a Christian’s fame;
 With whose just praise admiring nations ring,
 And whom repenting foes contritely sing!
 When first our land fraternal fury bore,
 And Sumter’s guns alarm’d the anxious shore;
 When Faction’s reign ancestral rights o’erthrew,
 And sunder’d States a mutual hatred knew;
 Then clash’d contending chiefs of kindred line,
 In flesh to suffer and in fame to shine.
 But o’er them all, majestic in his might,
 Rose LEE, unrivall’d, to sublimest height:
 With torturing choice defy’d opposing Fate,
 And shunn’d Temptation for his native State!
 Thus Washington his monarch’s rule o’erturn’d
 When young Columbia with rebellion burn’d.
 And what in Washington the world reveres,
 In LEE with equal magnitude appears.
 Our nation’s Father, crown’d with vict’ry’s bays,
 Enjoys a loving land’s eternal praise:
 Let, then, our hearts with equal rev’rence greet
 His proud successor, rising o’er defeat!
 Around his greatness pour disheartening woes,
 But still he tow’rs above (...)
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