To get her dog a Union bone.
She got to Manassas,
And saw them harrass us –
Lord! how Mother Seward did groan.
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Spirit of Freemen, wake;
Thy deadly foe;In fair disguises dressed,Too long hast thou caress’dThe serpent in thy breast,Now lay him low.Must e’en the press be dumb?Must truth itself succumb?And thoughts be mute?Shall law be set aside,The right of prayer denied,Nature and God decried,And man called brute?What lover of her fameFeels not his country’s shame,In this dark hour?Where are the…
The man in the North,
To find a Richmond barber,But the man in the South,He mashed his mouthAt a place they call Cold Harbor.
Away down South in the land of traitors,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.Where cotton’s king and men are chattels,Union boys will win the battles,Right away, come away, right away, come away.Then we’ll all go down to Dixie,Away, away,Each Dixie boy must understand,That he must mind his Uncle Sam,Away, away,And we’ll all go down to Dixie.Away, away,And we’ll all go down…
Slender whirlwinds coming from the sky
Sounds of arrows striking the groundroaringraising dust clouds.He shouts, warning of the days of danger.I stand on the peak of Red Mountain.He comes toward meshouting.My heart is a stone.I shout, I declare it.
Those men build many houses:
They cut down the trees, and they build;They work always – building.From the elevation of the mountainsideI behold the clouds:The clouds build many beautiful houses in the sky:They build, and they tear down;They build, and they dissolve. . . .The cities of white men,They are not beautiful like the cloud cities;They are not vast, like…
There is a rainbow in the sky,
God wrote it ere the world was dry–It is the autograph of God.