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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477835" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Colored Soldiers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF the muse were mine to tempt it<br>And my feeble voice were strong,<br>If my tongue were trained to measures,<br>I would sing a stirring song.<br>I would sing a song heroic<br>Of those noble sons of Ham,<br>Of the gallant colored soldiers<br>Who fought for Uncle Sam!<br>In the early days you scorned them,<br>And with many a flip and flout<br>Said 'These battles are the white man's,<br>And the whites will fight them out.'<br>Up the hills you fought and faltered,<br>In the vales you strove and bled,<br>While your ears still heard the thunder<br>Of the foes' advancing tread.<br>Then distress fell on the nation,<br>And the flag was drooping low;<br>Should the dust pollute your banner?<br>No! the nation shouted, No!<br>So when War, in savage triumph,<br>Spread abroad his funeral pall —<br>Then you called the colored soldiers,<br>And they answered to your call.<br>And like hounds unleashed and eager<br>For the life blood of the prey,<br>Spring they forth and bore them bravely<br>In the thickest of the fray.<br>And where'er the fight was hottest,<br>Where the bullets fastest fell,<br>There they pressed unblanched and fearless<br>At the very mouth of hell.<br>Ah, they rallied to the standard<br>To uphold it by their might;<br>None were stronger in the labors,<br>None were braver in the fight. <br>From the blazing breach of Wagner<br>To the plains of Olustee,<br>They were foremost in the fight<br>Of the battles of the free.<br>And at Pillow! God have mercy<br>On the deeds committed there,<br>And the souls of those poor victims<br>Sent to Thee without a prayer.<br>Let the fulness of Thy pity<br>O'er the hot wrought spirits sway<br>Of the gallant colored soldiers<br>Who fell fighting on that day!<br>Yes, the Blacks enjoy their freedom,<br>And they won it dearly, too;<br>For the life blood of their thousands<br>Did the southern fields bedew.<br>In the darkness of their bondage,<br>In the depths of slavery's night,<br>Their muskets flashed the dawning,<br>And they fought their way to light.<br>They were comrades then and brothers.<br>Are they more or less to-day?<br>They were good to stop a bullet<br>And to front the fearful fray.<br>They were citizens and soldiers,<br>When rebellion raised its head;<br>And the traits that made them worthy,—<br>Ah! those virtues are not dead.<br>They have shared your nightly vigils,<br>They have shared your daily toil;<br>And their blood with yours commingling<br>Has enriched the Southern soil.<br>They have slept and marched and suffered<br>'Neath the same dark skies as you,<br>They have met as fierce a foeman,<br>And have been as brave and true.<br>And their deeds shall find a record<br>In the registry of Fame;<br>For their blood has cleansed completely<br>Every blot of Slavery's shame. <br>So all honor and all glory<br>To those noble sons of Ham —<br>The gallant colored soldiers<br>Who fought for Uncle Sam!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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And my feeble voice were strong,
If my tongue were trained to measures,
I would sing a stirring song.
I would sing a song heroic
Of those noble sons of Ham,
Of the gallant colored soldiers
Who fought for Uncle Sam..."></div>
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