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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Personal reminiscences of the last days of Lee and his Paladins. (search)
As I rode along, classic readings, in the halcyon holidays of the happy past, haunted my memory, and I thought of Ulysses, after the siege of Troy, wandering the world, a wrecked waif, and of Homer's lines:— Happy, thrice happy, who in battle slain, Pressed in Atrides cause the Trojan plain. Oh! had I died before that well fought wall, Had some distinguished day renowned my fall, Such as was that when showers of javelins sped, From conquering Troy around Achilles' head. Odyssey, Lib. 5, verse 306. And I thought of the grand epic, in the words of which I began this story, and of the laments of the unhappy Aeneas and his song, O terque quaterque beati, Quis ante ora patrum Trojae sub moenibus altis, Contigit oppetere! Thrice happy those whose fate it was to fall, Exclaims the chief, before the Trojan wall, Oh! 'Twas a glorious fate to die in fight, To die so bravely in their parents' sight. Oh, had I there, beneath Tydides' hand, That bravest hero of the Grecian ban