. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . soldiers MONIMKNT AND OF ENGRAVED BY H, VELTEN, FROM A PRINT FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE. THEODORE O HARA. THEODORE OHARA. 109 3ints the mind to an ideal and eternalimping-ground, the image of the silent;nts follows naturally, while the secondduplet refers to the sleeping bodies when theyivoaac for the night of death, only until theiveille shall sound. The technical correctness>^hese similes is beyond question; and as toheir^iigher poetic sense, their ideal beautynust be apparent to every appreciative mind,o one who cannot perceiv
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . soldiers MONIMKNT AND OF ENGRAVED BY H, VELTEN, FROM A PRINT FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE. THEODORE O HARA. THEODORE OHARA. 109 3ints the mind to an ideal and eternalimping-ground, the image of the silent;nts follows naturally, while the secondduplet refers to the sleeping bodies when theyivoaac for the night of death, only until theiveille shall sound. The technical correctness>^hese similes is beyond question; and as toheir^iigher poetic sense, their ideal beautynust be apparent to every appreciative mind,o one who cannot perceive this, arguments \ the subject can mean nothing. Some incidents of interest naturally attach•emselves to the history of this poem. There a peculiar completeness to the circle of eventsertaining to it. OHara — himself a soldier- comm emorates in it the death of his com-anions battle, and reads it at their burial,ifter long years, when he had served throughnother wc ir, he is himself gathered to rest be-Lie. them,, and his poem, which consecratedthe sp-^A, has become a fitting and
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