Incipit
Si veris magna paratur Fama bonis, et se successu nuda remoto Inspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ullo Majorum, ortuna 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 an …
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