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Title: American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911
Subjects: War songs — United States United States — History Poetry
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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^ Sternly she closed in the last fatal grapple,Then in her triumph moved grandly away. Five of the rebels, like satellites round her.Burned in her orbit of splendor and fear ; One, like the pleiad of mystical story. Shot, terror-stricken, beyond her dread sphere. 56 ^be Daruna 57 We who are waiting with crowns for the victors,Though we should offer the wealth of our store, Ivoad the Variuia from deck down to kelson,Still would be niggard, such tribute to pour On courage so boundless. It beggars possession,— It knocks for just payment at heavens bright door ! Cherish the heroes who fought the \aruna ; Treat them as kings if they honor your way ;Succor and comfort the sick and the wounded ; Oh ! for the dead let us all kneel to pray !
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THB RIVER FIGHT. By henry HOWARD BROWNKI/I.. [Admiral Farragut was so impressed with this irregularbut spirited description of the river battle below NewOrleans that he sought out the author and their acquaint-ance ended in a warm friendship, Brownell having ex-pressed a desire to witness a naval conflict, Farragut tookhim on board the Flagship Haitford at the time of thestorming of the Mobile forts, and the poet repaid thecourtesy with the poem which appears elsewhere in thiscollection, called The Bay Fight.—Editor.] DO you know of the dreary land,If land such region may seem,Where t is neither sea nor strand.Ocean, nor good, dry land.But the nightmare marsh of a dream ?Where the Mighty River his death-road takes,Mid pools and windings that coil like snakes,A hundred leagues of ba3ous and lakes,To die in the great Gulf Stream? 58 XLbc URivcv 3fi5bt 59 No coast-line clear and true, Granite and deep-sea blue, On that dismal shore you pass, Surf-worn boulder or sand}^ beach,— But oo
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