John Marr and Other Poems: On the Grave of A Young Cavalry Officer

On the Grave of A Young Cavalry Officer

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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