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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409948" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rebel Color-Bearers At Shiloh</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">_A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civilians<br>shortly after the surrender at Appomattox_</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The color-bearers facing death<br>White in the whirling sulphurous wreath,<br>Stand boldly out before the line;<br>Right and left their glances go,<br>Proud of each other, glorying in their show;<br>Their battle-flags about them blow,<br>And fold them as in flame divine:<br>Such living robes are only seen<br>Round martyrs burning on the green--<br>And martyrs for the Wrong have been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perish their Cause! but mark the men--<br>Mark the planted statues, then<br>Draw trigger on them if you can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The leader of a patriot-band<br>Even so could view rebels who so could stand;<br>And this when peril pressed him sore,<br>Left aidless in the shivered front of war--<br>Skulkers behind, defiant foes before,<br>And fighting with a broken brand.<br>The challenge in that courage rare--<br>Courage defenseless, proudly bare--<br>Never could tempt him; he could dare<br>Strike up the leveled rifle there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunday at Shiloh, and the day<br>When Stonewall charged--McClellan's<br>crimson May,<br>And Chickamauga's wave of death,<br>And of the Wilderness the cypress wreath--<br>All these have passed away.<br>The life in the veins of Treason lags,<br>Her daring color-bearers drop their flags,<br>And yield. _Now_ shall we fire?<br>Can poor spite be?<br>Shall nobleness in victory less aspire<br>Than in reverse? Spare Spleen her ire,<br>And think how Grant met Lee.</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>
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The color-bearers facing death
White in the whirling sulphurous wreath,
Stand boldly out before the line;
Right and left their glances go,
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