For One Of The Killed

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Title:     For One Of The Killed
Author: William Dean Howells [More Titles by Howells]

There on the field of battle
Lies the young warrior dead:
Who shall speak in the soldier's honor?
How shall his praise be said?

Cannon, there in the battle,
Thundered the soldier's praise,
Hark! how the volumed volleys echo
Down through the far-off days!

Tears for the grief of a father,
For a mother's anguish, tears;
But for him that died in his country's battle,
Glory and endless years.

[The end]
William Dean Howells's poem: For One Of The Killed

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