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... slain : For look ! the gorgeous armies marching onwards . And look ! the draggled line , the feet that lag , The burning banner , and returning homewards The pallid faces and the bleeding flag ! From house to house the mournful winds ...
... slain : For look ! the gorgeous armies marching onwards . And look ! the draggled line , the feet that lag , The burning banner , and returning homewards The pallid faces and the bleeding flag ! From house to house the mournful winds ...
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... slain ; The cattle bellowed on the plain , The turkeys screamed with might and main , And brooding barn - fowl left their rest With strange shells bursting in each nest . Just where the tide of battle turns , Erect and lonely stood old ...
... slain ; The cattle bellowed on the plain , The turkeys screamed with might and main , And brooding barn - fowl left their rest With strange shells bursting in each nest . Just where the tide of battle turns , Erect and lonely stood old ...
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... slain , vigil I never forget , how as day brighten'd , I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket . And buried him where he fell . Walt Whitman . BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME By the bivouac's fitful flame 69 ...
... slain , vigil I never forget , how as day brighten'd , I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket . And buried him where he fell . Walt Whitman . BY THE BIVOUAC'S FITFUL FLAME By the bivouac's fitful flame 69 ...
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... slain That Host , which rendered all your bounties vain ! III By Moscow self - devoted to a blaze Of dreadful sacrifice ; by Russian blood Lavished in fight with desperate hardihood ; The unfeeling Elements no claim shall raise To rob ...
... slain That Host , which rendered all your bounties vain ! III By Moscow self - devoted to a blaze Of dreadful sacrifice ; by Russian blood Lavished in fight with desperate hardihood ; The unfeeling Elements no claim shall raise To rob ...
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... slain in that great victory . " " Now tell us what ' twas all about , " Young Peterkin , he cries , And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder - waiting eyes ; " Now tell us all about the war , And what they killed each other for ...
... slain in that great victory . " " Now tell us what ' twas all about , " Young Peterkin , he cries , And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder - waiting eyes ; " Now tell us all about the war , And what they killed each other for ...
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Arethusa arm'd arms army array banner battle beat blast blood boys breath Bret Harte bugles blown Cannon charge cheer Christ or Nietzsche Clusium crest cried death deep dread drum England's dead eyes F. W. Bourdillon fathers fell field fierce fight fire flag fought gallant glory hand Hark hath hear heard Hearts of oak heaven helmet helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre Herminius Highland laddie hills homes of England Horatius horse John Burns King land Lars Porsena light look Lord loud Marmion morn mountain Navarre ne'er never night noble o'er pibroch pride proud quoth rage roar rode rolling rose round rush Sextus shield shout slain smile soldier song sound spake spears stand stood sweet sword tears thee Thomas Campbell thou thousand thunder twas victory vigil voice W. E. Henley Walt Whitman waves wild winds do blow wounded