The Daughter of the Confederacy

by Dr. Henry Mazyck Clarkson (1835-1915)

Sonnet, read at the unveiling of the Winnie Davis Monument, before the Sixth General Convention, U.D.C., in Hollywood Cemetery, Nov. 9, 1899.

Sweet women of the South, come gather 'round
          This silent figure. It but typifies
          The grief the people feel for her who lies
In restful sleep beneath this hallowed mound.
Distinguished daughter of a race renowned,
          In the full flush of faultless womanhood,
          Before the world's admiring eyes she stood
A very queen, with every virtue crowned.

'Mid stirring scenes of stubborn battle born,
          Child of the chieftain of a hapless cause,
For scoffing foes she had no word of scorn —
          A woman true she won the world's applause:
With angels keeping watch o'er Hollywood,
Here let her wait among the great and good.

The Daughter of the Confederacy by Dr. Henry Mazyck Clarkson, The Virginia School Journal, Vol. VIII, No. 10 Richmond, December 1899, Page 309.

The Daughter of the Confederacy by Dr. Henry Mazyck Clarkson, Songs of Love and War, Second Edition - Enlarged, 1910, Page 150. (PDF)

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Winnie Davis Monument Barton County Democrat, Great Bend, Kansas, May 12, 1899.