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1819–1891

ON THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER

Herman Melville

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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