Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,
Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge
(1861)
“ When the battle is fought and won, What should be told of you? Hark! — 'tis the south-wind moans, — Who are the martyrs down? Ah, the marrow was true in your children's bones That sprinkled with blood the cursed stones Of the murder-haunted town! What if the storm-clouds blow? What if the green leaves fall? ”
