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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Monument to General Robert E. Lee. (search)
Memoriae Sacrum. I. Great Mother of great Commonwealths Men call our Mother State; And she so well has earned this name That she may challenge Fate To snatch away the epithet Long given her of ‘great.’ First of all Old England's outposts To stand fast upon these shores, Soon she brought a mighty harvest To a People's threshing floors, And more than golden grain was piled Within her ample doors. Behind her stormy sunrise shore, Her shadow fell vast and long, And her mighty Adm'ral, English Smith, Heads a prodigious throng Of as mighty men, from Raleigh down, As ever arose in Song. Her names are the shining arrows Which her ancient quiver bears, And their splendid sheaf has thickened Through the long march of the years, While her great shield has been burnished By her children's blood and tears. Yes, it is true, my countrymen, We are rich in names and blood, And red have been the blossoms From the first Colonial bud, While her names have blazed as meteors By many a field and f