Shelby County TN Archives News.....DAVID O DODD 1933
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Fred W Allsopp's, The Poems And Poetry Of Arkansas 1933
DAVID O DODD>>
(transcribed; 04/10/06)
DAVID O DODD
by Fannie Borland Moores (1848AR-1879TN)
Who knew what passed in those long years,
In Arkansas?
Who cared to mark the falling tears
of Arkansas?
We know of many hero graves
Where not one wreath of laurel waves,
And not one stone a hearing craves,
In Arkansas.
Thermopylae is far away
From Arkansas,
And boasted heroes are the day
In Arkansas.
Leonidas held fast the pass
Till men fell thick at summer grass,
And one had read 'that' in his class
In Arkansas.
Rome was held full many a sea
From Arkansas,
But we read the story of the 'three'
In Arkansas.
And 'one' had read it every day
And heard above his comrades' play
Strange voices call him far away
From Arkansas.
And when close by his college door
In Arkansas,
He stood a mighty crowd before
In Arkansas.
He knew his lessons all were done,
Yet was beneath the Southern sun,
A lesson taught to many a one,
In Arkansas.
He did not urge his youth's fair claim
On Arkansas,
Nor tell a single comrade's name,
Oh, Arkansas!
He would not take a length of days
That led through such dishonored ways --
Better a grave than blighted bays,
Oh, Arkansas!
He looked beyond the foeman's fire,
To Arkansas.
He saw his comrades; camping fire
In Arkansas.
He marked each from, unfettered strong,
He heard them sing loud and long,
And half-way broke into tat song --
Of Arkansas.
He saw his sister's eyes grow dim,
In Arkansas,
With watching long and late for him,
In Arkansas.
He saw his brother at the door
Look far across the river shore --
He would not see them any more,
In Arkansas.
Free breezes in his hair had play,
In Arkansas,
And he might be free as they,
In Arkansas.
Only a few sort words to say,
He looked up brightly to the day,
(Heaven is not so far away
From Arkansas).
He did not hold Thermopylae,
Oh, Arkansas!
Nor help to hew the bridge away,
Oh, Arkansas!
But the little hero held his tongue,
And heard the death knell 'round him rung,
And saw the rope around him swung,
Oh, Arkansas.
Who knew what passed in those long years
In Arkansas,
Oh darkened history with the tears
Of Arkansas?
And yet a Southern State,
Who weeps an individual fate,
Can one grander tale relate
Than Arkansas.
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Fanny (spelling by father in his December 1863 will) was daughter of Mary Isabel
Melbourne and U S Senator Solon Borland, M D, --- named in honor of his aunt who
raised him and her half-brother during their early years at Suffolk, VA, born in
Little Rock, September 1848 upon Major Borland's return from fighting, being
captured, escaping and helping in the capture of Mexico City, of the
Mexican-American War, --- after appointed and elected to the United States Senate
where he served until President Polk appointed him "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary" to Central America March 1853, turning down Governorship of New
Mexico territory.
Fannie's obituary:
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