Camp Lincoln Keokuk IowaOctober the 23rd, 1862
To Miss Dorothy W. Sullivan
My darling Dorothy,
I will inform you that I am well at this time, in this God Forsaken regiment. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I am to be no more. Death is coming, Dorothy, I can feel its stench in the blood-soaked battlefields on which we stand, in the eyes of my comrades as they see the fallen friends who once laughed and drank alongside.
Would I were back with you, dear Dorothy, that all happiness should come to us as it once did. My country hath borne me on these winds away from you, and unseeing with my one eye 'gainst your two, I tread as they so commanded. Your bright smile still warms me as I lay in drought, and those who would care care not about me, and those who do not pay as much mind as they did.
My forefathers have fallen, and yours live strong; our children might not remember the lineage which I bestow. O Dorothy! Do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again.
- Percy Sullivan
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1. This made me laugh out loud.
Oh, you crazy DS kids.
Compared to "Chad Warden", this is pretty much iambic pentameter.
Posted at 1:50AM on Apr 28th 2007 by Andrew