Quote#Death
Evening in majestic shadows fell upon the fortress' walls
Quote byHezekiah Butterworth · 1839–1905
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Death of Jefferson", st. 12. Songs of History (1887) p. 102.
English (original)
Evening in majestic shadows fell upon the fortress' walls: Sweetly were the last bells ringing on the James and on the Charles. 'Mid the choruses of freedom two departed victors lay, One beside the blue Rivanna, one by Massachusetts Bay. He was gone, and night her sable curtain drew across the sky; Gone his soul into all nations, gone to live and not to die.
— Hezekiah Butterworth
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