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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Mark A. De WolfeHowe

1546 Distinction

THE VILLAGE sleeps, a name unknown, till men

With life-blood stain its soil, and pay the due

That lifts it to eternal fame,—for then

’T is grown a Gettysburg or Waterloo.