Poem: “On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia” by Herman Melville

Poems From Battle Pieces

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On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia

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Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends—
    Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he
Whom here low violets veil from eyes.
    But all these gifts transcended be:
His happier fortune in this mound you see.

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