Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR THEM THAT DIED IN BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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First Line: How blossomy must be the halls of death
Last Line: And honor's music on them like sunrise.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Tears; Youth; Dead, The


How blossomy must be the halls of Death
Against the coming of the newly dead!
How sweet with woven garlands gathered
From pastures where the pacing stars take breath!
And with what tender haste, each with his wreath
Of welcome, must the elder dead return
To greet about the doors with dear concern
These much-loved, proud-eyed farers from beneath.
For these that come, come not forspent with years,
Nor bent with long despair, nor weak with tears,
They mount superbly thro' the gold-flecked air,
The light of immolation in their eyes,
The green of youth eternal in their hair,
And Honor's music on them like sunrise.





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