To Fight Aloud

Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma

—Photo by Cynthia Linville, Sacramento

TO FIGHT ALOUD IS VERY BRAVE (126)
—Emily Dickinson

To fight aloud, is very brave—
But gallanter, I know
Who charge within the bosom
The Calvary of Wo—

Who win, and nations do not see—
Who fall—and none observe—
Whose dying eyes, no Country
Regards with patriot love—

We trust, in plumed procession
For such, the Angels go—
Rank after Rank, with even feet—
And Uniforms of snow.

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—Medusa