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On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer
Killed in the Valley of Virginia
By Herman Melville

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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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