O Robert Lee, you paladin, <br />I wonder how my words would strike you. <br />I know the portrait might have been <br />In many, many ways more like you. <br /> <br />But you would not have had me plan <br />To make your figure more heroic; <br />For you would rather be a man <br />Than just a marble hearted stoic. <br /> <br />And I can often hear you say, <br />When they condemn and when they flatter, <br />In your divinely tender way, <br />'Good friend, it really doesn't matter.'<br /><br />Gamaliel Bradford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/robert-e-lee-5/
