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The stars were bright the breeze was still	A
The cicada and the whippoorwill	A
Alone disturbed the scene	B
A streamlet down the dark ravine	B
Hasted the gloomy spot to shun	C
And bear its little tribute to Cub Run	C
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The wayward step of one astray	D
He scared the whippoorwill away	D
A soldier reels to the little rill	A
And tries his sordid cup to fill	A
Then dizzily pitches across the branch	E
Too weak his mortal wound to staunch	F
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He wakes anon but weaker yet	G
For the stones with his oozing gore is wet	G
Feebly he feels for his stolen store	H
In his shirt made redder by his gore	H
But long ere the midnight cloud grows dark	I
The Red Zouave lies stiff and stark	I
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Why did the dying miscreant stare	J
Why stood upright his clotted hair	J
He sees a phantom sentinel	A
A skeleton man and musket as well	A
And the ghostly cry Halt who goes there	J
Made his glazing eyeballs wildly glare	J
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The sentry's laugh was shrill yet brief	K
Ere he spoke these words to the dying thief	K
'I left old England long years ago	L
Where I plundered and plundered both high and low	L
To escape at once from my crimes and fears	M
I enlisted with Braddock for seven years	M
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'We crossed the sea and we cut a road	N
Where there never had been a christian abode	N
On our march we encamped on a wooded height	O
You lay at the very same place last night	O
I stole from a comrade a half a crown	P
And was whipped as a thief till the blood ran down	P
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'I swore for revenge as we marched along	Q
The jeers of the men made my vengeance strong	Q
So Braddock I marked when we lost the fight	O
And shot him through ere I took to flight	O
I wandered this terrible wilderness through	R
And died of my wounds here as you will do	R
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'Though I saw our Sergeant Major fall	A
By some hidden Indian's rifle ball	A
Yet plainly I heard him say 'Murderer Thief	K
Stand sentinel here till Hell sends you relief	K
You shall challenge the panther who prowls for his prey	D
You shall challenge the savage and fright him away	D
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''You shall challenge the bat as he wheels	S
On his flight and the serpent that steals	S
By your desolate post Without fail	A
You shall halt the storm wind and hail	A
As they whistle and drift through your marrowless bones	T
And the turbulent stream in its rush o'er the stones '	-
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'Then I shrank in my terror and asked in my grief	K
How long will it be ere you send my relief	K
Then the spectre cursed me again and again	U
For he seemed to delight in my mortal pain	V
'I will tell you ' he said 'assassin and thief	K
When Hell will turn out your sentry relief	K
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''Over Braddock's road will pass a throng	Q
Better armed than our army and tenfold as strong	Q
Over Braddock's road will drift the same day	D
The wreck of that army fleeing away	D
And Braddock's defeat is forever forgot	W
In the tenfold more shameful rout of Scott	W
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''You will see a wounded miscreant run	C
From the battle field without firing a gun	C
He has robbed a dead comrade and driven his blade	X
Through his officer wounded and begging for aid	X
He will die on this rock and his infamous ghost	Y
Will relieve you a century hence on this post ''	-
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Then the skeleton musket and ramrod rang	Z
On the rock with the Zouave's dying pang	Z
And soon the morning sun gleamed fair	J
On his pallid brow and his shaven hair	J
Whilst his stiffened fingers closely hold	A2
A picture fair and a piece of gold	A2
And the picture smiled and the red gold shone	B2
As they did in the eyes that first called them their own	B2
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Now creep to the edge of that dark ravine	B
And say what those ghostly voices mean	B
A nice and transcendental ear	C2
This dialogue then very plainly hear	C2
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Zouave Halt who comes here to cross this line	D2
	-
Bravo Friend with the pass word and countersign	D2
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Zouave Friend with the countersign advance	E2
He knew his ghostly friend at a glance	E2
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Bravo No sentinel posted will ever again	D2
Here the countersign 'Braddock ' or the pass word 'Duquesne '	-
Each spectre must give as he passes this spot	W
The parole of dishonour 'MANASSAS and SCOTT '	-

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