Robert E. Lee

Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932



O Robert Lee, you paladin,
I wonder how my words would strike you.
I know the portrait might have been
In many, many ways more like you.

But you would not have had me plan
To make your figure more heroic;
For you would rather be a man
Than just a marble hearted stoic.

And I can often hear you say,
When they condemn and when they flatter,
In your divinely tender way,
'Good friend, it really doesn't matter.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 406
Words 82
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Gamaliel Bradford

Gamaliel Bradford was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth of seven men called Gamaliel Bradford in unbroken succession, of whom the first, Gamaliel Bradford, was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. His grandfather, Dr. Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, was a noted abolitionist. more…

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