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CHAP. II.]
UNSUNG GLORY.
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they and their works have alike perished with him. It
might be that his renown was so great that it was deemed
a vain thing to raise a monumental stone—his deeds spoke
for him—they were such as his friends and admiring coun-
trymen fondly imagined could never die ; so they laid him
out on his rocky bier, fresh, it would seem, from the battle-
field, with his battered panoply for a shroud, and there
They left him alone with his glory."
UNSUNG GLORY.
61
they and their works have alike perished with him. It
might be that his renown was so great that it was deemed
a vain thing to raise a monumental stone—his deeds spoke
for him—they were such as his friends and admiring coun-
trymen fondly imagined could never die ; so they laid him
out on his rocky bier, fresh, it would seem, from the battle-
field, with his battered panoply for a shroud, and there
They left him alone with his glory."