A noble son of Old Virginia, of which she ought to be always purely proud and say she knew,
Was the ever honorable cavalier by the notable name of Robert E. Lee who decided to,
Resist Northern tyranny, by fighting/or states’ rights, native land. and to ably assure and see,
That the Southern people might remain free, if only the damn Yankees had let them be!
Forever, this great Christian gentleman had then assuredly shown his character to have been,
Stainless in carefully caring, first, for an invalid Mother and, later an invalid wife,
Without complaint or taint and, filled with honor great, for it would have become a certain sin,
To play the coward’s part, and not so strive, for right, as properly a part of manly life.
Morally, honorably, unwilling to take up traitorous arms against his own native kith and kin,
Lee did decide, by his conscience clear, that his true and revered country was more of,
Virginia, as part of the sacred Southern land, and not the mere Federal states that did not win,
His affection, regardless of an officer’s oath, to an abstract Union he could not love.
The Yankees were wrong, for he could not see them despoil a single spot of sacred Southern soil,
In that the tyrant Lincoln had revolutionized, forever deliberately, the old Constitution.
By which states were to be sovereign, within their own borders, and could, thus, time-tested toil,
According to the rights of the states and, also, their own people’s more natural devotion.
Brave and bold, Lee thus rode, onward, for the sure sovereign sake of Southern independence,
And liberty, so that his valiant Virginia and the seceding states could be sovereign free,
Which had been the intended legacy of victory of the ever gallant General Lee whose instance,
For his homeland’s protection was of greater weight and, for conscience, the final key.
For all military glory and honor should be accorded to the great commander and soldier Lee,
Who showed his own honorable and incomparable character that was unlike today’s
Modernized men, who equivocate and define terms to their likings, and give now a prissy plea,
To justify moral misery, failures and lies to accommodate falseness to their own ways!
