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VIRGINIA (POEMS FROM BATTLE PIECES)
Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends- / Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he / Whom here low violets veil from eyes.
But all these gifts transcended be: / His happier fortune in this mound you see.