| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | November 30 | | Jefferson Davis | | By Harry Thurston Peck (1856–1914) |
| | (Died November 30, 1879)
NO paltry promptings of unglutted hate | |
| The Nation feels for him who erst assailed | |
| Her life, and strove against the will of fate | |
| To found an Empire and destroy a State. | |
| She stands to-day magnificently mailed | 5 |
| In loyal love, too gloriously great | |
| For thought of vengeance that were all too late. | |
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| And he whose death her sons would once have hailed | |
| With joy, now slinks through the dark Oblivion’s gate, | |
| With this his epitaph: When others quailed, | 10 |
| He staked his all upon one cast of fate | |
| And lost—and lived to know that he had failed! | | | | |
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