On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer

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Title:     On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer
Author: Herman Melville [More Titles by Melville]

KILLED IN THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA

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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Herman Melville's poem: On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer

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