"Fold him in his country's stars, Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?"
— George Henry Boker

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"Dirge for a Soldier (in Memory of General Philip Kearny)", stanza 3, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 169.