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 ^tmh ^mm df tl|e Jea^ 
 
 ''he full-orbed inooii, serenely bright^ 
 L^lWas shedding floods of mellow light : 
 cT^ While ghttei-ing in the firmament 
 The comitless stars tlieir histre lent : 
 The sky a beauteous curtain spread 
 For the great bivouac of the dead. 
 
 ^^ message speeds from gi-ave to grave- 
 " Awake ! Arise ! ye buried brave I 
 To-morrow is a sacred day — 
 The cherished Thirtieth of May ; 
 And 'neath Virginia's famous trte 
 A memorable review will be, 
 Where two loved heroes met and swore 
 To live in peace and fight no more." 
 
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 tSkHE Orderly at the tomb now reads 
 The names renowned for glorious deeds, 
 And summons all both low and high, 
 In distant graves or buried nigh, 
 To march and form the grand parade 
 Where once they battled undismayed. 
 
 "Igbis now tlie solemn midnight hom*— 
 All nature breathes a tranquil power ; 
 Deep stillness reigns — and all around, 
 Or far or near, no voice or sound 
 Distui'bs the preparation made 
 For the ghostly, grand 2)arade. 
 
 _ HE time arrives — the appointed time ; 
 The bells send forth a wierd-like chime ; 
 A muffled drum is heard afar ; 
 The dreary tombs are now ajar ; 
 The bugle sounds o'er vale and hill. 
 Sending forth a magic thrill 
 Through the bones of all who sleep 
 In their graves so cold and deep. 
 
 ^ HE earth is now convulsed and shaken ; 
 The phantom soldiers now awaken ; 
 At the trumpet's starthng sound 
 The clay is loosed that held them bound, 
 AVhilst their fleshless bones they shake, 
 Fearful is the sound they make ; 
 Now they hasten, swiftly all. 
 To obey their chieftain's call. 
 
Igl/EiiRiDLE beyond surmising 
 Is tins wonderful uprising : 
 Sad and wild the dire commotion, 
 Like the hurrying waves of ocean ; 
 Some whose names no one could tell — 
 Rudely left where'er they fell : 
 No one to whisper loving tones — 
 None to sepulture their hones. 
 
 JSere an arm and there a head 
 With a stranger-corpse was laid : 
 Here a leg and there a heart 
 From its own trunk torn apart : 
 Here two heads together lay 
 With a trunk half sunk in clay, 
 As though looking, hut in vain. 
 Their proper bodies to regain. 
 
 fHE hour now is far advancino- :— 
 On they hasten, leaping, dancing ; 
 While from their dry bones there gleams 
 A sea of phosphorescent beams. 
 That vacant socket of the eye 
 Wliere the vision once did lie — 
 Fierce in battle's wildest storm 
 Shelters now a loathsome worm. 
 
 I^ND in lieu of voiceless tongue 
 A hideous serpent, thin and long, 
 In the chest a home has found, 
 Hissing there its horrid sound ; 
 Through the hollow cheek now peeping — 
 Through the brainless skull now creeping- 
 Gliding through the broken teeth — 
 More repulsive making death. 
 
Jy tlie moon's fast waning liglit, 
 That phantom crowd — a fearful sight — 
 Still hasten at the drum's sad beating, 
 And as they march, fresh comrades raeetiug^ 
 Arrive, at last a formidable band. 
 On yonder plain and take their stand. 
 
 .eN the centre of tlie field 
 Hangs high aloft Columbia's shield, 
 Draped, like her flag, in deepest woe 
 For all her gallant sons laid low ; 
 AYliile she, bowed down with heai'tfelt sadness. 
 Weeps tears almost akin to madness. 
 
 "ISi/HE trumpet sounds, the drum is beat, 
 Wliile all along this spectral street 
 The skeletons parade in state, 
 And eagerly their chief await. 
 He comes — and raised above the throng 
 His clarion voice is borne along 
 Commanding now the grand review 
 Before the earlv dawn is due. 
 
 ^RIEND and toe stand side by side, 
 While rapidly still sw^ells the tide 
 Of phantoms to this midnight throng- 
 And now is heard their battle sono- : 
 
^^olumbia's sons, the free and brave 
 P'or Liberty their heart's blood gave : 
 Yielded up their all of life 
 In the dark and bloody strife — 
 While at each returning year 
 They bring the tribute of a tear 
 From phantom eyes that still can weep 
 Their comrades' sad, unending sleep." 
 
 ^^XD when the song is at an end 
 
 The skeletons in reverence bend 
 
 Before the banner of the brave 
 
 That led to glory or the grave. 
 
 The morning star at last appears, 
 
 And from the phantom band three cheers 
 
 Resound along the echoing land 
 
 As North and South join hand in hand. 
 
 ^AiiK ! from afar the martial sound 
 Proclaims that some are not yet found — 
 That some who fell 'mid war's dread noise 
 Have not yet heard the captain's voice : 
 Butlol as whirlwind through the trees, 
 Or storm-tossed waves of angry seas, 
 Still other thousands hither come, 
 Darkenino; old ocean's foam. 
 
 'HRONED on waves of bluish fire. 
 In his gala day attire. 
 Rides old Neptune, leading on 
 This numerous and mighty throng : 
 '*Here I come, and from the deep 
 Have I rescued those who sleep ; 
 I bring them all, a merry band 
 To join their comrades of the land." 
 
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 ^ROM the ocean's watery grave 
 I have summoned all the brave — 
 Called them from their hidden cave.'i 
 Washed by limpid, cooling waves. 
 They had beds of glittering sand 
 Softer tlian those made on land: 
 Purest pearls and coral red 
 Decked each hero's nuptial bed." 
 
 jEi/iiE deep-sea tribes intruded not 
 Into the charming, hallowed spot 
 Where lay their bones as wondrous white 
 As the moonbeam's silvery light: 
 And o'er their heads the sad sea's surge 
 I caused to sing a ceaseless dirge." 
 
 tJlow thev land, these tafs of vore. 
 Following Neptune to the shore : — 
 Gliding, rolling, like the waves 
 That for years have washed their graves, 
 They greet their brethren of the land. 
 Shaking cordially each hand. 
 Asking questions, one another. 
 Meeting father, son or brother. 
 
 Ki/ BEDiEXT to their chiei's command, 
 The tars now take their proper stand. 
 And as their ensigns they unfold 
 Tliey greet them with a love untold, 
 For st*-eaming from the towering mast 
 Thev saw each seaman breathe his last. 
 
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 ^IFE and drum once more are somiding ; 
 Forward all the tars are bounding ; 
 Armed with cutlass, pike, grenade, 
 Accoutred for the grand parade, 
 They form their line, and cheering loud, 
 Sweep onward like a threat'ning cloud. 
 
 . .kO wilder prank e'er vet had birth 
 Than this death-march upon the earth • 
 All animated nature quakes 
 With terror at the noise it makes, 
 As onward with a heavy tramp 
 They hasten to the midnight camp— ^ 
 )Some with rattling; 2:un and lanco 
 Trophies for the soldier's dance ; 
 Some with bullets through their bones — 
 Others crushed bv heavv stones. 
 
 IS/HE war-horse scents the dance of death 
 And gallops on with steaming breath. 
 Outstripping all in the wild race 
 To fill his own appointed place ; 
 For when the battle-field was rife 
 With shrieks and groans and deadly strife, 
 He by the cannon firmly stood 
 Till ebbed away his gallant blood. 
 
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 cavalry from far and wide. 
 Like lightning speed upon their ride : 
 With clanging sword and rattling shield 
 They now draw near the muster-field. 
 The dust obscures them as a cloud, 
 But from each throat, wild, clear and loud 
 Bursts forth, of their approach to tell, 
 The ne'er to-be forgotten yell. 
 
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 JB/HE great guerilla leads in front 
 As when he bore the battle's brunt — 
 With martial mien as when in life 
 He led his men to deadh^ strife, 
 And now resounds his clarion voice 
 Above the deaf 'ning din and noise : 
 '* Close up, close up, my men, the rear, 
 And let us charge in fall career !" 
 
 ^HE deep-mouthed cannon now^ appear, 
 And mortars huge bring up the rear ; 
 Their thunder- tones and sulphurous breath 
 Add horror to the dance of death. 
 
 OW stand the myriads, rank and file — 
 Upon each face a ghastly smile : 
 In dread array compact they stand 
 And listen for their chief's command 
 To pass the men in grand review 
 WTio fought Columbia's battles through. 
 
 ||^UT hark ! they hear another sound ; 
 A herald speeds along the ground — 
 A strange tiag flutte.'s in his hind 
 Belonging to a foreign land — 
 And riding swiftly to the chief 
 Delivers thus his message brief: 
 
 ROM distant lands I hitlier come 
 Where Freedom hath her pleasing home. 
 The deeds of all your soldiers brave 
 Have drawn our heroes from the grave ; 
 And now they ask consent to be 
 Spectators at death's grand levee," 
 
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 JB/O this replied our honored chief 
 In cordial tones and accents brief: — 
 Thrice welcome shall your brave ones be 
 Who hither come from o'er the sea ; 
 A place of honor they shall have 
 Till they retm-n to fill the grave." 
 
 HiLE thus he speaks, Helena's rock 
 Is rent by some resistless shock ; 
 From off the prisoner are cast 
 The British chains tliat held him fast. 
 He quickly buckles on his sword, 
 And for his only son, adored, 
 A message sends to " Shonbrun's" cell 
 ■\^aiere the Duke of "Eeichstadt" fell 
 
 ASTE, haste, my son, to Freedom's land- 
 A greeting from a friendly hand 
 Awaits us, and a glorious siglit 
 Upon this memorable night — 
 For there the dead in battle slain 
 Will meet on iVppomattox plain." 
 
 %Me gives rein to his iiery steed, 
 
 And galloping with lightning speed, 
 
 He sees before him in full view 
 
 His victor-foe of Waterloo, 
 
 ^Vnd with him Blucher, Prussia's pride. 
 
 Who joined with glee this phantom ride, 
 
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 LD Wenin2:ton his steed reins in 
 And welcomes with a ghostly grin 
 The greatest captain of his age — 
 One who had filled bright glory's page. 
 But who, as history doth tell, 
 For France and through ambition fell. 
 
 APOLEON then his hand extends 
 As if the three were bosom friends— 
 For when to Pluto's realm they go 
 The dead know neither friend or foe. 
 Forgotten now is all the strife, 
 Their mortal enmity in life, 
 And the brave trio hasten on 
 Followed by Napoleon's son. 
 
 N Europe's hard-fought battle fields, 
 Once thickly strewn with battered shields, 
 The phantoms like swift meteors pass 
 Through waving grain and fragrant grass ; 
 They look in vain for sign of yore, 
 For all is green where once was gore. 
 
 APOLEON now commands the brave 
 To rise and follow from the grave. 
 At once French, Germans, English, all 
 Spring up responsive to his call; 
 With dance and jest and martial song 
 The countless columns march along 
 To where the waves of ocean roar, 
 The highway to Columbia's shore. 
 
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 lo 
 
 HEY throw a cable o'er the tide, 
 
 And cross the bridge witli rapid stride; 
 
 An instant, and the throng is here, 
 
 Welcomed with a hearty cliecr 
 
 By Liberty's uprisen brave 
 
 Who fought that Freedom they might save. 
 
 JftuT these were far from being all 
 Who answered to the general call: 
 Tlie prophet worshipped as divine, 
 Mahomet — he of Mecca's shrine — 
 And by request the Sultan came, 
 Saladin, as he's known to fame. 
 Together they the Eed Sea crossed. 
 And on its waves were sorely tossed. 
 But both determined were to be 
 At Death's magnificent levee. 
 
 ^ACiiM-\JD, Allah wah barraha," 
 Was the greeting from ]\Iaboma ; 
 AMiile the crescent floating high. 
 Believers flock from far and nigh ; 
 The janizaries without number. 
 Startled from their heavy slumber. 
 Form an army strong and grand 
 And leave behind the Moslem land. 
 
 HE echo of this great parade 
 To Alpine heights its way had made, 
 And from the peaks of Switzerland 
 There sallied forth a gallant band : 
 By William Tell they were led on, 
 Helvetia's noblest, bravest son. 
 Who, from Gessler s chains to free, 
 Libertv's Messiah was to be. 
 
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 ^^HAT strange contrasts met the sight 
 Upon this great, eventful night ! 
 Men of every warlike nation 
 Men of every clime and station 
 Tm-k and Teuton, Celt and Gaul, 
 Magyars, E-omans, Grecians, all 
 Hastening with quick-coming breath 
 To attend the dance of death. 
 
 OPE and priest and bishop meet 
 And one another kindly greet : 
 Luther, too, of lion heart 
 In the journey takes a part ; 
 While Huss, with Calvin by his side, 
 Joins in the phantom, midnight ride ; 
 Nor last, nor least great Humboldt came, 
 Whose Cosmos won undvins: lame. 
 
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 ^^T length the ocean shore they reach, 
 And strongly anchored near the beach 
 A monstrous iron structure rides. 
 By wind and steam to cleave the tides. 
 Watts has made the fui-nace glow — 
 Cortez guides the vessel's prow— 
 Whilst Columbus, chart in hand, 
 Points to his discovered land. 
 
 ^RANKLiN bids the lightning play, 
 Illumining them upon their way. 
 Now the hissing waves recede ; 
 Now she flies with meteor speed, 
 And faster yet that phantom ship 
 Shall glide upon her ghostly trip — • 
 And long before the dawn is due 
 Shall land her passengers and crew. 
 
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 ONiibT these, were iiaiiies iiiinientiuned yet 
 Brave Bolivar and Lafayette ; 
 Attila, once the scourge of Eonie, 
 And Cnmans from Iiis Magyar homo : 
 Czar Peter, from tlie Kremlin came 
 AVith Catherine, Russia's pride and shame ; 
 And from the Macedonian shore 
 Pliilip and his son came o'er. 
 
 ^^JESAE, from Rome's capitol, 
 Came with Carthage's Hannibal ; 
 Troy and Thermopylae replied. 
 And sent their brave across the tide ; 
 Priam, Leonidas, and kindred dead. 
 Upon the midnight journey sped. 
 
 %%Oit warriors alone composed that throngv 
 
 For speech, philosophy and song, 
 
 Had representatives from Rome and Greece 
 
 To teach, enlighten and to please,— 
 
 Homer, .Vristotle, Plato, 
 
 Virgil, Cicero and Cato — 
 
 With many others of like fame, 
 
 But whom 'twere useless here to name. 
 
 ^T length the harp of Erin spoke. 
 When from their mouldy graves awoke 
 Shakespeare, Byron, Burns and jMoore, 
 Who hastened to the ocean shore : 
 Its sad tones reached the prison cell 
 Of Schiller, singer of the " Bell ;" 
 He rose and knocked with bony hand 
 Upon the tombstone of Uhland ; 
 Then both proceeded to awake 
 Their brother Goethe : Schiller spake — 
 
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 I^OME, liasten ! let's not be too late,- 
 The other singers all await ; 
 The warrior's wish to hear us sing 
 A song to make the welkin ring ; 
 We, too, are warriors, for we 
 Gave all our strength for liberty ; 
 
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 For liberty of speech and thought." |. 
 
 We, too, in Freedom's battle fought ^ 
 
 ^ HE poets then proposed to call 
 Some great musicians for the ball ; 
 Beethoven, Mozart and Bellini, 
 Mendelssohn and sweet Rossini, 
 Handel, too, and Meyerbeer, 
 Were selected to appear. 
 
 ffl UT still the throng was not complete, 
 For as they skip along they meet 
 Painters and sculptors in high glee, 
 At thought of death's wild revelry — 
 For they had come prepared to place, 
 On canvass and in stone, each face 
 And form and scene, for future sight. 
 That might inspire them that great night. 
 
 ^^RTiSTS they were : alas ! no more 
 Will such be seen as lived of yore ! 
 Raphael hung on Ruben's arm. 
 With that sweet face, so mild and warm ; 
 And Titian on Murillo hung. 
 And spoke of art with fluent tongue : 
 While Rembrandt gaily smiled and talked, 
 And where his fancy pleased him walked. 
 
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 mioT far behind Can ova came 
 
 And Angelo, all known to fame, 
 
 For sculpture, these; for painting, those : 
 
 And each unfading lustre throws 
 
 On Rome, once mistress of the world 
 
 But now from art and power hurled : — 
 
 Artists they were, of whom 'tis true 
 
 That "when they died their art died too." 
 
 SkO the Styx, as smooth as glass, 
 The "rear guard" of the dead now pass, 
 Where Charon, ever at his post 
 Awaited the distinguished host. 
 The feiTyman soon plies his oar. 
 And lands them on the hither shore. 
 
 iSl/HEY seek at once the sounding sea ; 
 ^olus lets the chained winds free ; 
 The sails no longer hug the mast. 
 But swell out at the storm-king's blast ; 
 And o'er the waves the phantoms go 
 Swiftly as bolt from archer's bow. 
 At length Columbia's shore they gain 
 And hasten to Virginia's plain. 
 
 JIuHUS all the giiests that were invited 
 At Appomattox stand united : 
 And 'twas an awe-inspiring sight 
 That met the startled gaze that night ! 
 A marshal having, with much grace. 
 Assigned each guest his proper place. 
 Silence reigned — all held their breath 
 To hear the overture to Death. 
 
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 ^OZAKT, while crossing o'er the ocean, 
 Inspired by a divine emotion, 
 The grand and glorious piece (hd write 
 For tlie concert o^* tliat night, 
 And taught it to tlie famous band 
 Brought with him from liis native land. 
 The proper signal now is given, 
 And quick as lightning flash from heaven 
 Ten thousand sounds harmonious meet 
 In one wild gush of music sweet. 
 
 <^0 solemn now, and now s(j thrillinj 
 The notes that all the air are filling — 
 At times so sad, at times so grand, 
 The music of this wondrous band, 
 That not till now on earth below 
 Did such melodious sounds e'er flow : 
 So rich, so pure, so deep, so clear. 
 That tuneful angels paused to hear. 
 
 "kUheik bony flnu-ers oji the liari) 
 
 Draw tones now loud, now soft, now sharj), 
 
 Or, wandering o'er the sweet guitai', 
 
 Celestial music heard afar. 
 
 Some with their ghostly breath do All 
 
 The deep-mouthed trump or clarion shrill, 
 
 While some on brass and kettle-drums 
 
 Keep sweet concordance with their tlmmbs^ 
 
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 j^iu: imdieiK-e -at eacli proper j)ause 
 Evince unqualified applause, 
 And at its end one wild acclaim 
 Ascends to Heaven as breath ot flame. 
 Henceforth the " llequieum" will cease 
 To be deemed ^lozart's master-piece ; 
 Nor will the *^ 31arch" of ^leyerbeer 
 With this grand overture compare — 
 Xor shall we till the judgment day 
 Hear such insj.irod musicians play. 
 
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 JUiiE concert o'er, and silence had, 
 
 Blind Homer quotes his ''Iliad;'' 
 
 Xext, on the air and loved so well 
 
 Are heard the tones of Schiller's "Bell:" 
 
 Then Byron from " Chllde Harold" reads 
 
 And Dante on his "Furies" leads ; 
 
 While Klopstock, Milton, Moore and Burns, 
 
 And manv others, take their turns. 
 
 ^/HEN Luther touches the great "Book," 
 And gazing up with reverend look, 
 Bestows a benediction brief, 
 The signal that Columbia's chief 
 The grand review will now begin. 
 Straightway the trump with clamorous din 
 Commands the warriors to fall in. 
 
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 — HEY form their ranks and march alontf. 
 Shouting loud their favorite song — 
 ••Hail, Columbia, happy land ! 
 Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band !" 
 Saluting as they see it w^ave 
 The banner of the free and brave. 
 
22 
 
 lEbHE ranks now halt, and arms present- 
 For in their midst, from lieaven sent, 
 Appears Columbia's cherished son, 
 The great, immortal Wasliington. 
 On him each warrior's eyes are bent 
 With looks of love and gaze intent ; 
 Whilst he, moved with emotion strong. 
 Surveys the innumerable throng, 
 And then with sad and tearful eye. 
 Addresses thus, the Deity : — 
 
 ^^ Heavenly Father ! pardon those. 
 Our country's wicked, direful foes, 
 Who caused the fratricidal strife, 
 That sacrificed so much of life ; 
 That desolation, ruin wrought. 
 And suffering to each hearth-stone brought 
 Who tried for years with sword and brand 
 ^ To desolate our prosperous land. 
 
 ,^ND take beneath thy mighty arm. 
 And shield, protect and keep from harm. 
 The kindred of the gallant dead ; 
 And all Thy richest blessings shed 
 Wherever sickness, pain or grief 
 Asks of thee comfort and relief. 
 Unite our hearts, unite our hands 
 In strong, indissoluble bands ; 
 And may the past outlay of blood, 
 Cement new ties of brotherhood." 
 
23 
 
 3|E ceased and from the Eastern sky, 
 
 Burst forth a flood of richest dye 
 
 That 'round our honored chieftain threw, 
 
 A mantle of red, white and blue. 
 
 All eyes were dazzled by the sight ; 
 
 While, in this blaze of varied light. 
 
 By hands invisible led on, 
 
 Was borne to Heaven our Washington. 
 
 The graves then opened for the dead 
 
 And each resumed his narrow bed. 
 
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