MONUMENT AT SHILOH
COMMEMORATING
THE UNITED DUGHTERS
OF THE CONFEDERACY
By Mrs. Anna Lockhart Davis
Memphis Tennessee
They stand erect and motionless
Bound together by unseen hand.
They stand for justice, graciousness
Peace and liberty in our land.
No tools in human hands alone
Could chisel love and tenderness
From cold white alabastrine stone.
Yet this, these figures do express:
Strength from a woman’s small white
hands,
Beauty from her long silken hair,
Triumph and courage from defeat,
In marble, white and cold and rare.
No earthly art, no sculptured stone
Could envision these, then portray.
Yet this white marble does atone
And gives a soul to this poor clay.
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