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YORKTOWN	A
FROM Yorktown's ruins ranked and still	B
Two lines stretch far o'er vale and hill	B
Who curbs his steed at head of one	C
Hark the low murmur Washington	C
Who bends his keen approving glance	D
Where down the gorgeous line of France	D
Shine knightly star and plume of snow	E
Thou too art victor Rochambeau	F
The earth which bears this calm array	G
Shook with the war charge yesterday	G
Ploughed deep with hurrying hoof and wheel	H
Shot sown and bladed thick with steel	H
October's clear and noonday sun	C
Paled in the breath smoke of the gun	C
And down night's double blackness fell	I
Like a dropped star the blazing shell	I
Now all is hushed the gleaming lines	J
Stand moveless as the neighboring pines	J
While through them sullen grim and slow	E
The conquered hosts of England go	E
O'Hara's brow belies his dress	K
Gay Tarleton's troop rides bannerless	K
Shout from thy fired and wasted homes	K
Thy scourge Virginia captive comes	K
Nor thou alone with one glad voice	K
Let all thy sister States rejoice	K
Let Freedom in whatever clime	F
She waits with sleepless eye her time	F
Shouting from cave and mountain wood	L
Make glad her desert solitude	M
While they who hunt her quail with fear	N
The New World's chain lies broken here	O
But who are they who cowering wait	P
Within the shattered fortress gate	P
Dark tillers of Virginia's soil	Q
Classed with the battle's common spoil	Q
With household stuffs and fowl and swine	R
With Indian weed and planters' wine	R
With stolen beeves and foraged corn	S
Are they not men Virginian born	S
Oh veil your faces young and brave	T
Sleep Scammel in thy soldier grave	T
Sons of the Northland ye who set	U
Stout hearts against the bayonet	U
And pressed with steady footfall near	N
The moated battery's blazing tier	O
Turn your scarred faces from the sight	V
Let shame do homage to the right	V
Lo fourscore years have passed and where	W
The Gallic bugles stirred the air	W
And through breached batteries side by side	X
To victory stormed the hosts allied	X
And brave foes grounded pale with pain	Y
The arms they might not lift again	Z
As abject as in that old day	G
The slave still toils his life away	G
Oh fields still green and fresh in story	A2
Old days of pride old names of glory	A2
Old marvels of the tongue and pen	Z
Old thoughts which stirred the hearts of men	Z
Ye spared the wrong and over all	B2
Behold the avenging shadow fall	B2
Your world wide honor stained with shame	F
Your freedom's self a hollow name	F
Where's now the flag of that old war	C2
Where flows its stripe Where burns its star	D2
Bear witness Palo Alto's day	G
Dark Vale of Palms red Monterey	G
Where Mexic Freedom young and weak	E2
Fleshes the Northern eagle's beak	E2
Symbol of terror and despair	W
Of chains and slaves go seek it there	W
Laugh Prussia midst thy iron ranks	K
Laugh Russia from thy Neva's banks	K
Brave sport to see the fledgling born	S
Of freedom by its parent torn	S
Safe now is Speilberg's dungeon cell	I
Safe drear Siberia's frozen hell	I
With Slavery's flag o'er both unrolled	G
What of the New World fears the Old	G

John Greenleaf Whittier

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