TO THE SONS OF THE UNIVERSITY
WHO ENTERED THE WAR OF 1861-65
IN ANSWER TO THE CALL OF THEIR
COUNTRY AND WHOSE LIVES
TAUGHT THEM THE LESSON OF
THEIR GREAT COMMANDER THAT
DUTY IS THE SUBLIMEST WORD
IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
WHO ENTERED THE WAR OF 1861-65
IN ANSWER TO THE CALL OF THEIR
COUNTRY AND WHOSE LIVES
TAUGHT THEM THE LESSON OF
THEIR GREAT COMMANDER THAT
DUTY IS THE SUBLIMEST WORD
IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Does anyone know any sublimer words?
3 comments:
Southerners.
Is that a suggestion for the sublimest word? I've got to admit it's a contender.
Careful - you're dangerously close to touching off another round of Civil War debates. I, for one, can do without another series of "Lincoln: Great Emancipator or Proto-Fascist?" blog posts.
Although there is something terribly romantic about that inscription.
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