Taps
SLEEP.
Now that the charge is won,
Sleep in the narrow clod ;
Now it is set of sun,
Sleep till the trump of God.
Sleep.
Now that the charge is won,
Sleep in the narrow clod ;
Now it is set of sun,
Sleep till the trump of God.
Sleep.
Sleep.
Fame is a bugle call
Blown past a crumbling wall;
Battles are clean forgot;
Captains and towns are not : Sleep shall outlast them all.
Sleep.
Fame is a bugle call
Blown past a crumbling wall;
Battles are clean forgot;
Captains and towns are not : Sleep shall outlast them all.
Sleep.
Lizette Woodworth Reese.