<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409907" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ball's Bluff: A Reverie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One noonday, at my window in the town,<br>I saw a sight - saddest that eyes can see -<br>Young soldiers marching lustily<br>Unto the wars,<br>With fifes, and flags in mottoed pageantry;<br>While all the porches, walks, and doors<br>Were rich with ladies cheering royally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They moved like Juny morning on the wave,<br>Their hearts were fresh as clover in its prime<br>(It was the breezy summer time),<br>Life throbbed so strong,<br>How should they dream that Death in rosy clime<br>Would come to thin their shining throng?<br>Youth feels immortal, like the gods sublime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weeks passed; and at my window, leaving bed,<br>By nights I mused, of easeful sleep bereft,<br>On those brave boys (Ah War! thy theft);<br>Some marching feet<br>Found pause at last by cliffs Potomac cleft;<br>Wakeful I mused, while in the street<br>Far footfalls died away till none were left.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herman+Melville">Herman Melville</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409907" data-title="Ball's Bluff: A Reverie de Herman Melville" data-description="One noonday, at my window in the town, I saw a sight - saddest that eyes can see - Young soldiers marching lustily Unto the wars, With fifes, and flags in mottoed pageantry; While all the porches, walks, and doors Were rich with ladies cheering ro..."></div> </div> </div>

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