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These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet;—

Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;—
Under the laurel the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
--
The Blue and the Gray, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Francis Miles Finch

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