To fight aloud is very brave

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

But gallanter, I know,

Who charge within the bosom,

The cavalry of woe.


Who win, and nations do not see,

Who fall, and none observe,

Whose dying eyes no country

Regards with patriot love.


We trust, in plumed procession,

For such the angels go,

Rank after rank, with even feet

And uniforms of snow.

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