{"product_id":"2940148142393","title":"Walking Shadows","description":"Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrelude:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf those who fought and died\u003cbr\u003eUnreckoned, undescried,\u003cbr\u003eBreaking no hearts but two or three that loved them;\u003cbr\u003eOf multitudes that gave\u003cbr\u003eTheir memories to the grave,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the unrevealing seas of night removed them;\u003cbr\u003eOf those unnumbered hosts\u003cbr\u003eWho smile at all our boasts\u003cbr\u003eAnd are not blazed on any scroll of glory;\u003cbr\u003eMere out-posts in the night,\u003cbr\u003eMere keepers of the light,\u003cbr\u003eWhere history stops, let shadows weave a story.\u003cbr\u003eShadows, but ah, they know\u003cbr\u003eThat history's pomp and show\u003cbr\u003eAre shadows of a shadow, gilt and painted.\u003cbr\u003eThey see the accepted lie\u003cbr\u003eIn robes of state go by.\u003cbr\u003eThey see the prophet stoned, the trickster sainted.\u003cbr\u003eAnd so my shadows turn\u003cbr\u003eTo truths that they discern\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the ordered \"facts\" that fame would cherish.\u003cbr\u003eThey walk awhile with dreams,\u003cbr\u003eThey follow flying gleams\u003cbr\u003eAnd lonely lights at sea that pass and perish.\u003cbr\u003eNot tragic all indeed,\u003cbr\u003eNot all without remede\u003cbr\u003eOf clean-edged mirth. Our Rosalie of laughter,\u003cbr\u003eThe bayonet of a jest,\u003cbr\u003eMay pierce the devil's breast,\u003cbr\u003eAnd give us room and time for grief, here-after.\u003cbr\u003eSo let them weep or smile\u003cbr\u003eOr kneel, or dance awhile,\u003cbr\u003eFantastic shades, by wandering fires begotten;\u003cbr\u003eRemembrancers of themes\u003cbr\u003eThat dawn may mock as dreams.\u003cbr\u003eThen let them sleep, at dawn, with the forgotten.","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072570343664,"sku":"2940148142393","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148142393_p0.jpg?v=1763697692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148142393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}