"In glades they meet skull after skull
Where pinecones lay - the rusted gun,
Green shoes filled with bones, the mouldering coat
And cuddled up skeleton;
And scores of such. Some start as in dreams,
And comrades lost bemoan:
By the edge of these wilds Stonewall had charged,
But the year and the man were gone."
(Herman Melville, The Armies of the Wilderness)
Where pinecones lay - the rusted gun,
Green shoes filled with bones, the mouldering coat
And cuddled up skeleton;
And scores of such. Some start as in dreams,
And comrades lost bemoan:
By the edge of these wilds Stonewall had charged,
But the year and the man were gone."
(Herman Melville, The Armies of the Wilderness)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
