04-25-2025, 05:55 AM
Lee
Down he went to defeat
first of his oath and then
that State within his soul
for which he had forsworn it.
Great-hearted he refused
to play the criminal
but greater traitor to
his erstwhile patron, warfare.
High glory, then, is his
for though his statues fall
his honor stands unstained
by hate unreconciled.
[Form: Elegy]
Down he went to defeat
first of his oath and then
that State within his soul
for which he had forsworn it.
Great-hearted he refused
to play the criminal
but greater traitor to
his erstwhile patron, warfare.
High glory, then, is his
for though his statues fall
his honor stands unstained
by hate unreconciled.
[Form: Elegy]
Non-practicing atheist