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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Julia Ward Howe. (1819–1910) (continued)
 
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    In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.
          Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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    Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms,
  To deck our girls for gay delights!
The crimson flower of battle blooms,
  And solemn marches fill the nights.
          Our Orders.
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    The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
’T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
And the stars that fight in their courses ’gainst tyrants its symbols know.
          The Flag.
 
Alice Cary. (1820–1871)
 
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    My soul is full of whispered song,—
  My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
  Are full of life and light.
          Dying Hymn.
 
Henry Howard Brownell. (1820–1872)
 
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    Up the River of Death
  Sailed the Great Admiral!
          The River Fight.
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    You might have deemed our long gun-deck
  Two hundred feet of hell. 1 
          The River Fight.
 
Note 1.
Remark attributed to General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891): War is hell. Henry van Dyke: On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman:—
  This is the soldier brave enough to tell
  The glory-dazzled world that “war is hell.” [back]