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The Two Armies [Medical Poem] |
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Title: The Two Armies [Medical Poem] Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] As Life's unending column pours, One marches to the drum-beat's roll, One moves in silence by the stream, Along its front no sabres shine, For those no death-bed's lingering shade; For these no clashing falchions bright, For those the sculptor's laurelled bust, For these the blossom-sprinkled turf Two paths lead upward from below, Though from the Hero's bleeding breast While Valor's haughty champions wait [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |