Let Not A Tear Be Shed! Of Grief Give Not A Token, Although The Silver Thread And Golden Bowl Be Broken! A Warrior Lived--A Christian Died! Sorrow'S Forgotten In Our Pride! Go, Bring His Battle-Blade, His Helmet And His Plume! And Be His Trophies Laid Beside Him In The Tomb, Where Files Of Time-Marked Veterans Come With Martial Tramp And Muffled Drum! Give To The Earth His Frame, To Moulder And Decay; But Not His Deathless Name-- That Can Not Pass Away! In Youth, In Manhood, And In Age, He Dignified His Country'S Page! Green Be The Willow-Bough Above The Swelling Mound, Where Sleeps The Hero Now In Consecrated Ground: Thy Epitaph, O Delavan! God'S Noblest Work--An Honest Man!