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The congressmen came out to see Bull Run	A
The congressmen who like free shows and spectacles	B
They brought their wives and carriages along	C
They brought their speeches and their picnic lunch	D
Their black constituent hats and their devotion	A
Some even brought a little whiskey too	E
A little whiskey is a comforting thing	F
For congressmen in the sun in the heat of the sun	A
The bearded congressmen with orator's mouths	G
The fine clean shaved Websterian congressmen	H
Come out to see the gladiator's show	I
Like Iliad gods wrapped in the sacred cloud	J
Of Florida water wisdom and bay rum	K
Of free cigars democracy and votes	L
That lends such portliness to congressmen	H
The gates fly wide the bronze troop marches out	M
Into the stripped and deadly circus ring	F
'Ave Caesar ' the cry goes up and shakes	N
The purple awning over Caesar's seat	O
'Ave Caesar Ave O congressmen	H
We who are about to die	P
Salute you congressmen '	Q
Eleven States	R
New York Rhode Island Maine	S
Connecticut Michigan and the gathered West	T
Salute you congressmen	H
The red fezzed Fire Zouaves flamingo bright	U
Salute you congressmen	H
The raw boys still in their civilian clothes	V
Salute you congressmen	H
The Second Wisconsin in its homespun grey	W
Salute you congressmen	H
The Garibaldi Guards in cocksfeather hats	X
Salute you congressmen	H
The Second Ohio with their Bedouin caps	Y
Salute you congressmen	H
Sherman's brigade grey headed Heintzelman	A
Ricketts' and Griffin's doomed and valiant guns	Z
The tough hard bitten regulars of Sykes	A2
Who covered the retreat with the Marines	B2
Burnside and Porter Wilcox and McDowell	C2
All the vast unprepared militia mass	D2
Of boys in red and yellow Zouave pants	E2
Who carried peach preserves inside their kits	F2
And dreamt of being generals overnight	U
The straggling companies where every man	G2
Was a sovereign and a voter the slack regiments	H2
Where every company marched a different step	I2
The clumsy and unwieldy new brigades	J2
Not yet distempered into battle worms	K2
The whole huge innocent army ready to fight	U
But only half taught in the tricks of fighting	F
Ready to die like picture postcard boys	L2
While fighting still had banners and a sword	M2
And just as ready to run in blind mob panic	N2
Salutes you with a vast and thunderous cry	P
Ave Caesar Ave O congressmen	H
Ave O Iliad gods who forced the fight	U
You bring your carriages and your picnic lunch	D
To cheer us in our need	O2
You come with speeches	P2
Your togas smell of heroism and bay rum	K
You are the people and the voice of the people	C2
And when the fight is done your carriages	Q2
Will bear you safely through the streaming rout	M
Of broken troops throwing their guns away	W
You come to see the gladiator's show	I
But from a high place as befits the wise	R2
You will not see the long windrows of men	S2
Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House	T2
Or the stone wall of Jackson breathe its parched	U2
Devouring breath upon the failing charge	V2
Ave Caesar ave O congressmen	H
Cigar smoke wraps you in a godlike cloud	J
And if you are not to depart from us	W2
As easily and divinely as you came	X2
It hardly matters	Y2
Fighting Joe Hooker once	Z2
Said with that tart unbridled tongue of his	Q2
That made so many needless enemies	A3
'Who ever saw a dead cavalryman '	Q
The phrase	B3
Stings with a needle sharpness just or not	C3
But even he was never heard to say	W
'Who ever saw a dead congressman '	Q
And yet he was a man with a sharp tongue	D3

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