Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil WarRichard Grant White American News Company, 1866 - 334 pages |
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... blood with the finger of flame ! - — You were always too ready to fire at a touch ; But we said , " She is hasty , she does not mean much . " We have scowled , when you uttered some turbulent threat ; But Friendship still whispered ...
... blood with the finger of flame ! - — You were always too ready to fire at a touch ; But we said , " She is hasty , she does not mean much . " We have scowled , when you uttered some turbulent threat ; But Friendship still whispered ...
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... blood of all the world is here , And they who strike us , strike the world . Then shout beside thine oak , O North ! O South ! wave answer with thy palm ; And in our Union's heritage Together lift the Nation's psalm ! IV . God of the ...
... blood of all the world is here , And they who strike us , strike the world . Then shout beside thine oak , O North ! O South ! wave answer with thy palm ; And in our Union's heritage Together lift the Nation's psalm ! IV . God of the ...
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... blood our fathers shed , By the ashes of our dead , By the sacred soil we tread ! God for our native land ! 5 THE FLAG . * BY HORATIO WOODMAN . WHY flashed that flag on Monday morn Across the startled sky ? Why leapt the blood to every ...
... blood our fathers shed , By the ashes of our dead , By the sacred soil we tread ! God for our native land ! 5 THE FLAG . * BY HORATIO WOODMAN . WHY flashed that flag on Monday morn Across the startled sky ? Why leapt the blood to every ...
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... blood of Naseby streamed Through hearts unconscious of the fire Till that torn banner gleamed . The seeds of Milton's lofty thoughts , All hopeless of the spring , Broke forth in joy , as through them glowed The life great poets sing ...
... blood of Naseby streamed Through hearts unconscious of the fire Till that torn banner gleamed . The seeds of Milton's lofty thoughts , All hopeless of the spring , Broke forth in joy , as through them glowed The life great poets sing ...
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... blood gushed , And o'er his face a glory rushed . A sudden spasm rent his frame , And in his ears there went and came A sound as of devouring flame . Which in a moment ceased , and then The great light clasped his brows again , So that ...
... blood gushed , And o'er his face a glory rushed . A sudden spasm rent his frame , And in his ears there went and came A sound as of devouring flame . Which in a moment ceased , and then The great light clasped his brows again , So that ...
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