Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

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# Verses Inscriptive and Memorial ## Overview "Verses Inscriptive and Memorial" is a segment of poetry, extracted from a larger work. It spans lines 3400 to 3410 of its source file. ## Context This segment is part of the poetry collection "[Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9)" by Herman Melville. The collection itself is contained within the broader "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection and was extracted from the file "[battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt](arke:01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8)". This segment follows the poem "[Aurora-Borealis.](arke:01KG8AJQP32A3E9JFPAGX3B7MC)" and precedes the poem "[The Released Rebel Prisoner.](arke:01KG8AJQNXPYYRMGT3KBTADMXN)". ## Contents The text of "Verses Inscriptive and Memorial" includes a title and the beginning of a poem. The poem is dedicated "On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri." The first lines of the poem are: "The men who here in harness died / Fell not in vain, though in defeat."

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Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

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Verses Inscriptive and Memorial On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri. The men who here in harness died Fell not in vain, though in defeat.

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Verses Inscriptive and Memorial