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![]() How gushed the life-blood of her brave -- Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save. |
![]() A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone. |
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![]() On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away. |
![]() The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. . . . |
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![]() Has left its frightful scar upon my soul. |
![]() Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealed The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. |
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![]() When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. |
![]() The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom Should keep them lingering by my tomb. |
![]() A man of giant frame, Amid the gathering multitude That shrunk to hear his name. |
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