"...But far on San Jacinto's field the Texan toils are set
And Alamo's dread memory the Texan steel shall whet.
And fame shall tell their deeds--who fell, till, all the years are run,
Thermopylae left one alive----the Alamo left none."
-- James Jeffery Roche, "The Men of the Alamo."
http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/texianpoetry.htm
Wow, that's some good stuff. I'd never read that before. Thanks.