StoryTitle("caps", "The Martyr of Monterey") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(139, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The strife was stern at Monterey,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When those high towers were lost, and won;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, pealing through that mortal fray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Flash'd the strong batteries vengeful gun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet, heedless of its deadly rain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She stood, in toil and danger first,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To bind the bleeding soldier's vein,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slake the dying soldier's thirst.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She found a pale and stricken foe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sinking in nature's last eclipse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on the red earth kneeling low,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She wet his parch'd and fever'd lips;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When thick as winter's driving sleet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The booming shot and flaming shell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Swept with wild rage that gory street,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she—the good and gentle—fell!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They laid her in her narrow bed—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The foemen of her land and race;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sighs were breathed and tears were shed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Above her lowly resting-place.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay! glory's crimson worshippers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wept over her unkindly fall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For deeds of mercy such as hers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Subdue the heart and eyes of all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To sound her worth were guilt and shame", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In us, who love but gold and ease;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They heed alike our praise or blame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who live and die in works like these,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far greater than the wise or brave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Far happier than the fair or gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was she who found a martyr's grave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On that red field of Monterey.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("—Rev. J. G. Lyons.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>