id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-185 chapter-185 .txt text/plain 250 23 90 Dirge for Two Veterans On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking, Down a new-made double grave. Lo, the moon ascending, Up from the east the silvery round moon, Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon, Immense and silent moon. And I hear the sound of coming full-keyd bugles, I hear the great drums pounding, And every blow of the great convulsive drums, Two veterans son and father dropt together, And the double grave awaits them.) Now nearer blow the bugles, And the drums strike more convulsive, And the daylight oer the pavement quite has faded, And the strong dead-march enwraps me. O strong dead-march you please me! O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me! O my veterans passing to burial! The moon gives you light, And the bugles and the drums give you music, And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, ./cache/chapter-185.txt ./txt/chapter-185.txt