The century illustrated monthly magazine . soldiers monument and tomb ok ENGRAVED BY H. VELTEN. FROM A PRINT FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE. THEODORE O HARA. THEODORE OHARA. 109 points the mind to an ideal and eternalcamping-ground, the image of the silenttents follows naturally, while the secondcouplet refers to the sleeping bodies when theybivouac for the night of death, only until thereveille shall sound. The technical correctnessof these similes is beyond question; and as totheir higher poetic sense, their ideal beautymust be apparent to every appreciative one who cannot perceive thi
The century illustrated monthly magazine . soldiers monument and tomb ok ENGRAVED BY H. VELTEN. FROM A PRINT FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE. THEODORE O HARA. THEODORE OHARA. 109 points the mind to an ideal and eternalcamping-ground, the image of the silenttents follows naturally, while the secondcouplet refers to the sleeping bodies when theybivouac for the night of death, only until thereveille shall sound. The technical correctnessof these similes is beyond question; and as totheir higher poetic sense, their ideal beautymust be apparent to every appreciative one who cannot perceive this, argumentson the subject can mean nothing. Some incidents of interest naturally attachthemselves to the history of this poem. Thereis a peculiar completeness to the circle of eventspertaining to it. OHara — himself a soldier— commemorates in it the death of his com-panions in battle, and reads it at their long years, when he had served throughanother war, he is himself gathered to rest be-side them, and his poem, which consecratedthe spot, has become a fitt
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