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: Blue and gray the uniforms : Strode on to the wide green field : Each man carried a rifle : No man came to yield : The Stars and Bars : Flew proud above : The Stars and Stripes did too : And the earthbrown boots : Tramped down the gr : Wet with morning dew : The old general chewed : On his black cigar : He thought upon his chore : And then he cursed : And then he prayed : To the ancient gods of war : (Who love the smell of cordite : And the reek of human gore) : “Now,” he said : And the boys fell down : Down fell the blue and the gray : Down fell the stars : From the noble stripes : Down from the proud blue bars : Down from the wounds : Flowed the awful tears : Of a bless’d and bloody nation : Down to mark its sacrifice : And its terrible salvation : Quiet now the killing field : Above the sodden peat : Feel the spirit of the nation : Breath beneath your feet : Feel the strength : Of the spine of the nation : Straight as a bayonet : Built on the bones : Of the Blue and Gray : Who sleep together yet. : © Jim Boring

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