Public Domain Poetry And Stories - On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia by Herman Melville Public domain poetry and public domain stories from the literary greats of yesteryear.
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.
