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To: Melas

"...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


55 posted on 03/11/2007 4:57:09 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

Wow, that's some good stuff. I'd never read that before. Thanks.


80 posted on 03/12/2007 8:48:42 AM PDT by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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