Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville <br /> <br />The Man who fiercest charged in fight, <br />Whose sword and prayer were long - <br />Stonewall! <br />Even him who stoutly stood for Wrong, <br />How can we praise? Yet coming days <br />Shall not forget him with this song. <br /> <br />Dead is the Man whose Cause is dead, <br />Vainly he died and set his seal - <br />Stonewall! <br />Earnest in error, as we feel; <br />True to the thing he deemed was due, <br />True as John Brown or steel. <br /> <br />Relentlessly he routed us; <br />But we relent, for he is low - <br />Stonewall! <br />Justly his fame we outlaw; so <br />We drop a tear on the bold Virginian's bier, <br />Because no wreath we owe.<br /><br />Herman Melville<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stonewall-jackson/
