TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD

 In a small park in Charleston, South Carolina
there stands a monument to Major Henry Timrod, C.S.A.,
(1829-1867) sometimes called "the Poet Laureate of the
Confederacy". These words are engraved thereon:


 Sleep sweetly in your humble grave
 Sleep, martyrs of a fallen Cause
 Though yet no marble column crave
 The pilgrim here to pause.

        In seeds of laurel in the earth
 the blossom of your fame is blown
 and somewhere, waiting for its birth
 the shaft is in the stone.

        Stoop, angels, hither from the skies
 there is no holier spot of ground
 than where defeated valor lies
 by mourning beauty crowned.