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Ode Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead, at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867
Henry Timrod · 1866
Original text in English.
A year after the surrender, the Confederate section of Magnolia Cemetery still has no monument; decorating its graves is an act of mourning, and for one of the speakers of the day a silent protest.
Poetry · 120 words · about 1 min of reading
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Henry Timrod († 1867): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 845). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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