“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
“Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing:
The bravest are the tenderest,—
The loving are the daring.”
"The Song of the Camp" (1856), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 86.
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