"Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing: The bravest are the tenderest,— The loving are the daring."
— Bayard Taylor

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

Sources

"The Song of the Camp" (1856), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 86.