. Bugle-echoes; a collection of the poetry of the civil war, northern and southern; . jwV THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC. (.See J>ci£e 81— Like a krakeu, huge and STONEWALL JACKSON AT BULL RUN. (See j>age 8g— Stonewall Jacksons Way) POEMS OF THE CIVIL WAR. 81 Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp !Down went the Cumberland all a-wrack,With a sudden shudder of death,And the cannons breathFor her dying gasp. Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay, Still floated our flag at the mainmast , how beautiful was Thy day!Every waft of the airWas a
. Bugle-echoes; a collection of the poetry of the civil war, northern and southern; . jwV THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC. (.See J>ci£e 81— Like a krakeu, huge and STONEWALL JACKSON AT BULL RUN. (See j>age 8g— Stonewall Jacksons Way) POEMS OF THE CIVIL WAR. 81 Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp !Down went the Cumberland all a-wrack,With a sudden shudder of death,And the cannons breathFor her dying gasp. Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay, Still floated our flag at the mainmast , how beautiful was Thy day!Every waft of the airWas a whisper of prayer,Or a dirge for the dead. Ho ! brave hearts that went down in the seas ! Ye are at peace in the troubled stream ;Ho ! brave land with hearts like these,Thy flag, that is rent in twain,Shall be one again,And without a seam ! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THE RIVER FIGHT. [In April, 1862, Admiral Farragut ran his squadron pastthe Confederate batteries defending the Lower Mississippi,encountering and defeating a fleet of steamers, rams, andfire-rafts.] Would you hear of the River Fight ?It was two, of a soft spring night— Gods stars looked down on
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