| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 910. Sherman |
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| GLORY and honor and fame and everlasting laudation | |
| For our captains who loved not war, but fought for the life of the nation; | |
| Who knew that, in all the land, one slave meant strife, not peace; | |
| Who fought for freedom, not glory; made war that war might cease. | |
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| Glory and honor and fame; the beating of muffled drums; | 5 |
| The wailing funeral dirge, as the flag-wrapped coffin comes; | |
| Fame and honor and glory; and joy for a noble soul, | |
| For a full and splendid life, and laurelled rest at the goal. | |
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| Glory and honor and fame; the pomp that a soldier prizes; | |
| The league-long waving line as the marching falls and rises; | 10 |
| Rumbling of caissons and guns; the clatter of horses’ feet, | |
| And a million awe-struck faces far down the waiting street. | |
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| But better than martial woe, and the pageant of civic sorrow; | |
| Better than praise of to-day, or the statue we build to-morrow; | |
| Better than honor and glory, and history’s iron pen, | 15 |
| Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. | |
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