THE CADETS AT NEW MARKET.

By James Barron Hope

Their sleep is made glorious,

And dead they're victorious

Over defeat!

Never Lethean billows

Shall roll o'er their pillows,

Red with the feet

Of Mars from the wine press

So bitterly sweet!

Sleeping, but glorious,

Dead in Fame's portal,

Dead, but victorious,

Dead, but immortal!

They gave us great glory,

What more could they give?

They have left us a story,

A story to live —

And blaze on the brows of the State like a crown,

While from these grand mountains the rivers run down,

While grass grows in graveyards, or the Ocean's deep calls,

Their deeds and their glory shall fresco these walls.