PO E I Y

Its words
Are few, but deep and solemn, and they break
Fresh from the fount Of feeling.
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For the Columbian Fountain.
A requiem for the gallant dead,


Since 'tis not ours to give them more,
Who nobly fought, and freely bled


BY Rio Grande's distant shore;
Who sought and found that glorious grave,
Which most BELTS the victor brave.
They heard the bugle's shrilly blast


Proclaim aloud the foeman's rout,
And bounding horsemen hurrying past


With iron clang and pealng shout;
They heard the final cannons boom
Their death-fraught thunder thro' the gloom
They saw the s'fag Of stars" float high


In triumph o'er the battle field,
And exultation lit the eye


So soon to be in darkness sealed;
They saw-their pain they needed not,
And all save duty was forgot.
They need no column to proclaim


What acts they did, what glory won,
Their deeds adorn the page Of fame


Beneath the name Of Washington;
And fathers yet unborn shall tell
For whom they fought and how they fell.
O be their names inscribed with those


Who died devoted at the pass,
Where Grecians reaped their hireling foes


As mowers reap the early grass;
They've earned the laurel, though It's wet
With tears Of anguish and regret.
They died as heroes have, who loved


Their country even more than life,
And each one by his fall hath proved ~


Of what avail in deadly strife
Columbia's fearless wardens are
How much they do and whatIthey dare.
O! We for whom their lives they gave,


Refuse not now kindly tear
Embalm the memory Of the brave


In sorrow which is all sincere,
And learn this lesson from their death
To yield, in such cause, your breath.
With glory's need reward the brave


For daring actions nobly done,
And ever shall Columbia have


Her million hearts TO throb as one,
And at her call will rise host
Of manly guardians for her coast


GEoRGETowN, DC.