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The sun went down in flame and smoke	A
The cold night passed without alarms	B
And when the bitter morning broke	A
Our men stood to their arms	B
	-
But not a foe in front was found	C
After the long and stubborn fight	D
The enemy had left the ground	C
Where we had lain that night	D
	-
In hollows where the sun was lost	E
Unthawed still lay the shining snow	F
And on the rugged ground the frost	E
In slender spears did grow	F
	-
Close to us where our final rush	G
Was made at closing in of day	H
We saw amid an awful hush	G
The rigid shapes of clay	H
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Things which but yesterday had life	I
And answered to the trumpet's call	J
Remained as victims of the strife	I
Clods of the Valley all	J
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Then the grim detail marched away	H
A grave from the hard soil to wrench	K
Wherein should sleep the Blue and Grey	H
All in a ghastly trench	K
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A thicket of young pines arose	L
Midway upon that frosty ground	C
A shelter from the winds and snows	L
And by its edge I found	C
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Two stiffened forms where they had died	M
As sculptured marble white and cold	N
Lying together side by side	M
Beneath one blanket's fold	N
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My heart already touched and sad	O
The blanket down I gently drew	P
And saw a sturdy form well clad	O
From head to heel in Blue	P
	-
Beside him gaunt from many a fast	Q
A pale and boyish rebel lay	H
Free of all pangs of life at last	Q
In tattered suit of Grey	H
	-
There side by side those soldiers slept	R
Each for the cause that he thought good	S
And bowing down my head I wept	R
Through human brotherhood	S
	-
Oh sirs it was a piteous thing	T
To see how they had vainly tried	M
With strips of shirts and bits of string	T
To stay life's ebbing tide	M
	-
The story told itself aright	M
Print scarce were plainer to the eye	U
How they together in the night	M
Had laid them down to die	U
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The story told itself I say	H
How smitten by their wounds and cold	M
They'd nestled close the Blue and Grey	H
Beneath one blanket's fold	M
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All their poor surgery could do	M
They did to stop their wounds so deep	V
Until at last the Grey and Blue	M
Like comrades fell asleep	V
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We dug for them a generous grave	W
Under that sombre thicket's lee	X
And there we laid the sleeping brave	W
To wait God's reveille	X
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That grave by many a tear was graced	M
From ragged heroes ranged around	M
As in one blanket they were placed	M
In consecrated ground	M
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Aye consecrated without flaw	X
Because upon that bloody sod	M
My soul uplifted stood and saw	X
Where CHRIST had lately trod	M

James Barron Hope

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