TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD

In a small park in Charleston, South Carolina
there stands a monument to Major Henry Timrod, C.S.A.,
(1829-1867) sometimes called "the Poet Laureate of the 
Confederacy". These words are engraved thereon:


        Sleep sweetly in your humble grave
        Sleep, martyrs of a fallen Cause
        Though yet no marble column crave
        The pilgrim here to pause.

        In seeds of laurel in the earth
        The blossom of your fame is blown
        And somewhere, waiting for its birth
        The shaft is in the stone.

        Stoop, angels, hither from the skies
        There is no holier spot of ground
        Than where defeated valor lies
        By mourning beauty crowned.